Stew Dapple Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 I've just finished these, the second trio of Airfix's Spitfire I's from my stash built to utilise a couple of the schemes on the new Xtradecal Battle of Britain 75th Anniversary Spitfires transfer sheet X72224 here and one from the Southern Expo 70th Anniversary sheet. The first is a Spitfire I, L1027 LOoA of 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron - as you can tell from the serial the aircraft is an early one, but I believe that (at least some and probably all of) the original 602 Squadron Spitfires were refitted to 1a standards in May 1940 - L1027 is portrayed in August when they were based at Westhampnett, one of Tangmere's satellite stations. L1027 carried a cartoon of a flying toilet as its nose art (and had an unflattering nickname to match... there is a fine photo of the artwork and a brief story of L1027 in Douglas McRoberts' book on 602 Squadron "Lions Rampant"). Ellis Aries flew it to shoot down a Do17 on 26 August and Nigel Rose was shot down and wounded by a Bf110 while flying it on 11 September. It was subsequently repaired/rebuilt and went to 53 OTU, stalled and crash-landed at Llandow on 28 September 1941 and was struck off charge a few days later. Anyway here is my representation of "The Flying Outhouse"* ... and here is a close-up - or at least as close as I could get - of the flying toilet cartoon with the motto "Izal get you!" on the scroll beneath... * Yes, the nickname wasn't actually 'The Flying Outhouse', I leave it to your imagination to guess what the correct word was. The second is a Spitfire Ia R6835 of 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron flown by Flying Officer Brian Carbury from RAF Hornchurch in August 1940 - on 31st August he was flying this aircraft when over the course of three flights he claimed two He111s and three Bf109s before being wounded by splinters when R6835 took a cannon shell in the oxygen tank which exploded. FO Carbury managed to nurse it back to Hornchurch and landed without further damage. R6835 was repaired and served with a series of training units, ending its days (as far as I can tell) at Henstridge, Somerset, in July 1944. Here is my representation of R6835 during her own 'Finest Hour' in August 1940... The third and final model represents Spitfire Ia R6691, PRoJ of 609 (West Riding) Squadron flown by Flight Lieutenant Frank Howell based at RAF Warmwell in August 1940. On 13 August Flt Lt Howell claimed 2 Ju87s whilst flying R6691. R6691 later served with 616 (South Yorkshire) Squadron and 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron so she was a true Auxiliary bird. She was struck off charge on 31 March 1943. As noted these are all built from the Airfix 2011 tooling of the Spitfire Ia which goes together very nicely. There is a rather long and winding WiP thread here if you are interested in the details of the builds (as well as a whole bunch of unrelated trivia ) and the RFI thread for the first three Spitfires is here... The kits were mostly built OOB with the following additions/replacements: Eduard micro-fabric seat harnesses and canopy mask sets and SBS Models resin Spitfire I exhausts and EZ-line aerial wire; the paints used were a custom mix of interior green and Phoenix Precision Paints Dark Earth, Dark Green and Sky - the Sky and Dark Earth applied by airbrush and the disruptive pattern of Dark Green brush-painted. The transfers as for 602 and 609 Squadrons were by Xtradecal and the 603 Squadron markings from the Southern Expo 'Hornchurch vs the Luftwaffe' set. The Xtradecal fuselage roundel centres were slightly off-register which was surprising and annoying, I have never had any issues with them before and I hope never to again, The Southern Expo decals although 5 years old now performed well. Um, I think that's about it. Well done if you managed to wade through that ocean of text Cheers, Stew 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatboydim Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 A superb trio of Spitfires. 😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Three beautiful build,s Stew,subtle weathering and that matt finish which I seem to never get right! I was on dust patrol yesterday in the man cave and realised I had nine of these Airfix boxings in various markings and I,m still not tired of building them! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Great stuff Stew! Well done. Three excellent Spitfires. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafalbert Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Always lovely to see a 602 Sqn aircraft! These are beautiful, nicely done! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch K Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Lovely trio of Spits! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight_Flyer Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Excellent Spitfire builds, the paint finish on all three looks great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave N Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Lovely stuff and a very interesting read. Thanks for posting. -Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 What a great trio! The wing root paint chipping on LO-A looks particularly realistic too. Regards, Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blitz23 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 I love your paint chipping. Great trio of spits! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonl Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Very nice work.... great looking Spits! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Well played. Those canopies really just pop. I'm not sure how to describe this exactly, but you have the art, down to a science, of producing very clean, yet amazingly weathered, builds. Great to have the background stories too. Cheers, Mike 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beard Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 (edited) Even though I do like a Spitfire, these are most excellent. Edited to correct spelling. Edited June 25, 2015 by Beard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatbox8 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 A great 'vic' of Spits there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Lovely Spitfires Stew, and thanks for all the background info - good stuff. I love the chipping and weathering as well. I think you're ready for the Bob GB! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob85 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Yeah I suppose they are.... OK..... You know..... Could you not have built these after the group build? I mean stew think about the other building these in the GB that now feel they have to reach for your bar! Really how in considerate doing 6 brilliantly turned out spitfires! Rob (I know I'm so funny! ) P.s. anyone know how long a typhoon can fly before needing to refuel? One is flying round my house and an hour ago it was very interesting but now it's getting a little annoying.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theanorak73 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 very nice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beard Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 P.s. anyone know how long a typhoon can fly before needing to refuel? One is flying round my house and an hour ago it was very interesting but now it's getting a little annoying.... According to Wikipedia, it has a range 1800 miles so, it depends on the speed it flying at, the altitude and the size of the circle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Bravo buddy, a trio of super Spitfires. It was a pleasure to follow the wip and look forward to your build in the BoB GB. Sean "unrelated trivia"?? ....... surely you jest!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted June 25, 2015 Author Share Posted June 25, 2015 Damn, I just spent 15 minutes doing 'MultiQuote' to reply to you all individually and then somehow lost it before posting... sorry. Thanks to you all for your interest, flattery, kind words and witticisms Cheers, Stew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob85 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Damn, I just spent 15 minutes doing 'MultiQuote' to reply to you all individually and then somehow lost it before posting... sorry. Thanks to you all for your interest, flattery, kind words and witticisms Cheers, Stew I go nuts when that happens, made me shout out lots of swear words in the staff room last time.... staff were present, what a role model. Bloody phone..... Rob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eng Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Beautiful collection, good Scottish connections there to all 3. Lovely work, Eng 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimHead23 Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Fantastic Stew. I'm looking forward to those Swordfish! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellsprop Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Very nice trio of Spitfires Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire609 Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 I've just finished these, the second trio of Airfix's Spitfire I's from my stash built to utilise a couple of the schemes on the new Xtradecal Battle of Britain 75th Anniversary Spitfires transfer sheet X72224 here and one from the Southern Expo 70th Anniversary sheet. The first is a Spitfire I, L1027 LOoA of 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron - as you can tell from the serial the aircraft is an early one, but I believe that (at least some and probably all of) the original 602 Squadron Spitfires were refitted to 1a standards in May 1940 - L1027 is portrayed in August when they were based at Westhampnett, one of Tangmere's satellite stations. L1027 carried a cartoon of a flying toilet as its nose art (and had an unflattering nickname to match... there is a fine photo of the artwork and a brief story of L1027 in Douglas McRoberts' book on 602 Squadron "Lions Rampant"). Ellis Aries flew it to shoot down a Do17 on 26 August and Nigel Rose was shot down and wounded by a Bf110 while flying it on 11 September. It was subsequently repaired/rebuilt and went to 53 OTU, stalled and crash-landed at Llandow on 28 September 1941 and was struck off charge a few days later. Anyway here is my representation of "The Flying Outhouse"* ... and here is a close-up - or at least as close as I could get - of the flying toilet cartoon with the motto "Izal get you!" on the scroll beneath... * Yes, the nickname wasn't actually 'The Flying Outhouse', I leave it to your imagination to guess what the correct word was. The second is a Spitfire Ia R6835 of 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron flown by Flying Officer Brian Carbury from RAF Hornchurch in August 1940 - on 31st August he was flying this aircraft when over the course of three flights he claimed two He111s and three Bf109s before being wounded by splinters when R6835 took a cannon shell in the oxygen tank which exploded. FO Carbury managed to nurse it back to Hornchurch and landed without further damage. R6835 was repaired and served with a series of training units, ending its days (as far as I can tell) at Henstridge, Somerset, in July 1944. Here is my representation of R6835 during her own 'Finest Hour' in August 1940... The third and final model represents Spitfire Ia R6691, PRoJ of 609 (West Riding) Squadron flown by Flight Lieutenant Frank Howell based at RAF Warmwell in August 1940. On 13 August Flt Lt Howell claimed 2 Ju87s whilst flying R6691. R6691 later served with 616 (South Yorkshire) Squadron and 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron so she was a true Auxiliary bird. She was struck off charge on 31 March 1943. As noted these are all built from the Airfix 2011 tooling of the Spitfire Ia which goes together very nicely. There is a rather long and winding WiP thread here if you are interested in the details of the builds (as well as a whole bunch of unrelated trivia ) and the RFI thread for the first three Spitfires is here... The kits were mostly built OOB with the following additions/replacements: Eduard micro-fabric seat harnesses and canopy mask sets and SBS Models resin Spitfire I exhausts and EZ-line aerial wire; the paints used were a custom mix of interior green and Phoenix Precision Paints Dark Earth, Dark Green and Sky - the Sky and Dark Earth applied by airbrush and the disruptive pattern of Dark Green brush-painted. The transfers as for 602 and 609 Squadrons were by Xtradecal and the 603 Squadron markings from the Southern Expo 'Hornchurch vs the Luftwaffe' set. The Xtradecal fuselage roundel centres were slightly off-register which was surprising and annoying, I have never had any issues with them before and I hope never to again, The Southern Expo decals although 5 years old now performed well. Um, I think that's about it. Well done if you managed to wade through that ocean of text Cheers, Stew My grandfather was Spitfire Ace of the Battle of Britain 609 pilot Sgt. Alan Norman FEARY (742301). I love the model you are working on in the photos, R6691 (PR-J), the work is so detailed and the look so authentic. Sgt. Alan Norman FEARY on the 25-08-40 over Wareham flying Spitfire Mk I R6691 (PR-J), Destroyed a Messerschmitt 110C and Damaged another. Although the plane was predominantly F/Lt Frank J. Howell's, the necessity of the war made it so in reality no one pilot could really have their own plane. In the photo of F/Lt Frank J. Howell, if the stars painted on the fuselage represent confirmed Destroyed then one of those stars may belong to my grandfather for his confirmed Destroyed on the 25th August 1940. Anyone interested in my grandfather's RAF service and legacy is welcome to visit his Facebook page; Sgt. Alan Norman FEARY, Spitfire Ace, RAF 609 (West Riding) Squadron... https://www.facebook.com/groups/alanfeary/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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