Troy Smith Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 2 hours ago, Dave Fleming said: So the big Airfix kit had the right codes but the wrong serial the shape and size of the codes on P3166 VY-Q and P3854 VY-Q are different. P3166 are taller, and the Q has square corners. The 1/24th Airfix kit has code style correct for P3854 BTW. There are several high quality shots of P3166 and P3854 here https://www.flickr.com/photos/144949377@N05/albums/72157704898371932 HTH 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Sinclair Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 3 hours ago, Dave Fleming said: Edit: Suggestions that OK1 was actually N2520. From photos looks metal winged. N2426 last fabric wing built (except for the batch in 1940) N2520 TOC 26 October 1939, Pilot date 1 December, delivered 3 December, 27 MU no date, 213 Sqn 29 March? 1940, Station Flight Northolt 31 May? 1940, 5? MU 10 June 1940, Station Flight Northolt 18 June 1940, Station Flight Sd? Carney? 19 December 1940, 3 SFTS 26 January 1941, Cat E 23 May 1944. 11 Group HQ was at Uxbridge N 51° 34' W 0° 28.5', Northolt Airfield N 51° 33' W 0° 23' for those who lack a detailed map of the London area and prefer target co-ordinates. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Fleming Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 49 minutes ago, Troy Smith said: the shape and size of the codes on P3166 VY-Q and P3854 VY-Q are different. P3166 are taller, and the Q has square corners. The 1/24th Airfix kit has code style correct for P3854 BTW. very true, thanks for the link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Fleming Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 10 minutes ago, Geoffrey Sinclair said: N2520 TOC 26 October 1939, Pilot date 1 December, delivered 3 December, 27 MU no date, 213 Sqn 29 March? 1940, Station Flight Northolt 31 May? 1940, 5? MU 10 June 1940, Station Flight Northolt 18 June 1940, Station Flight Sd? Carney? 19 December 1940, 3 SFTS 26 January 1941, Cat E 23 May 1944. 11 Group HQ was at Uxbridge N 51° 34' W 0° 28.5', Northolt Airfield N 51° 33' W 0° 23' for those who lack a detailed map of the London area and prefer target co-ordinates. That would be South Cerny, which was the home of 23 Group Communications Flight as well, which ties in nicely with Park's post BoB appointment 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Fleming Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Troy Smith said: There are several high quality shots of P3166 and P3854 here https://www.flickr.com/photos/144949377@N05/albums/72157704898371932 HTH The one I've not been able to find is a decent hi-res copy of the one on the cover and title page of Fighter Squadron at War. IWM has a slightly fuzzy copy, but it would be interesting to see a modern verison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Smith Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 On 25/06/2020 at 09:44, Geoffrey Sinclair said: P3760, CFF 11 June 1940, SOC 19 August 1940 Air Britain - 17 Missing, presumed shot down by Bf110 Nr Ofordness 11.8.40 this has 3 possible fits with 17 Squadron from Air Britain, P3760, P3780, P3788. On a lower resolution's, the P37 is clear, and the next two could be 80 or 88, hard to tell what the last two digits are, but on a full page blow up (open it in a new tab) this looks to be P376* Nothing else P376* apart from P3760 fits. Have we got another photo serial tie up? Do I need to get out more? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Smith Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 On 25/06/2020 at 09:44, Geoffrey Sinclair said: P3757, 1 RCAF Sqn 26 June 1940 and another photo This option is on this sheet https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/X72225 though when it was done this would have been assumed to be metal wing....... also on the sheet there is Serial unknown LE-T 242d; P3757 YO-G 401 (City of Westmount) Sqn RCAF RAF Croydon; P3021 TM-N 504 find the serials, and you can do V7203, LE-T, and you could probably modify the N of TM-N to a V to do P3774 cheers T 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airjiml2 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Wow, what an interesting thread. Too bad Mr. Molson didn't tip over P3757 a little more so we could see the gun ports. But I guess after this thread, I'll be using Airfix to build YO-G and not Arma. Thanks for the education guys! Jim 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevSmar Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 On 8/24/2020 at 7:57 AM, Troy Smith said: There are several high quality shots of P3166 and P3854 here https://www.flickr.com/photos/144949377@N05/albums/72157704898371932 What a fantastic series of photos! Thanks for providing the link. I see he has similarly interesting photos of Hurricanes in other squadrons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 Hallo there, Am getting very much into fabric winged hurricanes and in particular this batch of 50 late hurticanes with fabric wings. However, having looked at pics of YB F, and comments about the later hurricanes having the wing centre section being metal as standard does thus mean that these last 50 fabric wing a/c had the later hexagonal gun bay hatches or the original rectangular ones of the original fabric wings? The reason I ask is the YBF -if it is fabric winged- looks to have the later style gunbay hatches from what I can see. Was the fabric wing just thd bit outbard if the gunbays or was it the whole wing,? Grateful for any thoughts. Ralph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Smith Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Ralph said: Hallo there, Am getting very much into fabric winged hurricanes and in particular this batch of 50 late hurticanes with fabric wings. However, having looked at pics of YB F, and comments about the later hurricanes having the wing centre section being metal as standard does thus mean that these last 50 fabric wing a/c had the later hexagonal gun bay hatches or the original rectangular ones of the original fabric wings? rectangular type. 1 hour ago, Ralph said: The reason I ask is the YBF -if it is fabric winged- looks to have the later style gunbay hatches from what I can see. Was the fabric wing just thd bit outbard if the gunbays or was it the whole wing,? Grateful for any thoughts. Ralph the Hurricanes from this batch were standard fuselages, the panel that was fabric covered in the centre section was at the rear on early Hurricanes, seen here Hurricane17sqdamaged_zps9106b20e by losethekibble, on Flickr but this was soon changed to metal. the actual fabric wing was metal covered to the outer edge of the gunbay, as was the leading edge, though this was then covered in fabric. The outer wing joins onto the centre section outside the UC legs, that is what the cover strip is for. For modelling purposes, as you are using the 72nd Airfix kit, for one of these P****/V**** fabric wing, you just need to fill the fabric at area at the wing roots, behind the gun bays, add the later style canopy, a ES/6 Rotol prop and the extra hatch on the starboard side. I'd change the wheels, as the Airfix are a bit too big, but they are 4 spoke. I'll add some more photos when i find them. This shows what is metal in the fabric wing you can see the metal leading edges stripped of fabric. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 4 hours ago, Troy Smith said: rectangular type. the Hurricanes from this batch were standard fuselages, the panel that was fabric covered in the centre section was at the rear on early Hurricanes, seen here Hurricane17sqdamaged_zps9106b20e by losethekibble, on Flickr but this was soon changed to metal. the actual fabric wing was metal covered to the outer edge of the gunbay, as was the leading edge, though this was then covered in fabric. The outer wing joins onto the centre section outside the UC legs, that is what the cover strip is for. For modelling purposes, as you are using the 72nd Airfix kit, for one of these P****/V**** fabric wing, you just need to fill the fabric at area at the wing roots, behind the gun bays, add the later style canopy, a ES/6 Rotol prop and the extra hatch on the starboard side. I'd change the wheels, as the Airfix are a bit too big, but they are 4 spoke. I'll add some more photos when i find them. This shows what is metal in the fabric wing you can see the metal leading edges stripped of fabric. Cheers! V.informatiive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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