Spitfire mk Vb trop aerial wires

[KLP]

Hello,

I am currently building the Tamiya Spitfire mk Vb Trop (AN-V).

Did it have the aerial wires going from the fuselage to the horizontal stabilizers like other mk Vb's?

I am having trouble finding pictures confirming this.

Thanks in advance

Kenneth

[Stonar]

Doesn't look like it here. Seems to be a trace (in roundel) of where they may once have entered the fuselage.

Quite a paint job that! I'm pretty sure that the starboard aileron is a replacement in the "reverse" camouflage scheme. There has obviously been a big repair to that wing. What's going on with the cowling? Never mind the area around the squadron code/serial.

Good luck,it should be fun.

Steve

Edited July 30, 2010 by Stonar

[spitfire]

Have a look here http://spitfiresite.com/2010/04/spitfire-m...-aerials.html/2

Cheers

Den

[timbo33]

Very useful site....I'd better remove the aerial wire from my Vb Trop then......

Edited July 30, 2010 by timbo33

[Muller]

Same here, was just looking at pics of it. Where abouts on the tailplane does the wire from the roundel go too?

[KLP]

Den, thanks for the link. Very useful.

So it seems that this aircraft did not have any wires, as it most likely had VHF and not IFF, agree?

Steve, I think you are right about the aileron. Unfortunately it is too late for my model, as it is already painted and weathered :-(

Muller, the wires from the fuselage go to the tips of the horizontal stabilizers.

Thanks a lot everybody. What a cool forum I found here!

Kenneth