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Found this old kit on Ebay



going to do this aircaraf:



Does anyone know what color the spinner on the aircraft was? Some say black other places it seems to have had a dark blue hew?

Red ?

Spinners were dependent on which flight they belonged to,red,blue,black.

Here's a picture from Dean's site of 5534. Spinner looks yellow to me?

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Hallo all,

Chopperpilot your observation is correct. The spinner on Spitfire 5534 was indeed in yellow, as was that of a number of aircraft from 1 Squadron. Traditional flight colours in the RAF and early SAAF were; A-Flight - Red, B-Flight - Yellow, C-Flight - Blue and D-Flight - Black. A study of the Mustangs as used by 2 Squadron in Korea clearly show all four colours as used by the four flights into which the Squadron was divided. There are also well-known photographs of the OC's aircraft, Mustang 335, around with the four-coloured spinner on it, indicating all four the flight colours.

Also be careful with the decals that you have, a photograph of 5534 shows clearly that it was a"high-back" Spitfire and not a "cut-down" fuselage with bubble-top canopy. She was also finished in the Dark Green/Ocean Grey/Medium Sea Grey camouflage, with small D-Type roundels, as can be seen in the posted photograph.

Kind regards,
Saafcolours.

I remember that photograph from when I used to go to the "Bliktemple" on Saturday afternoon to watch bioscope!

The photo was in the canteen!


Geoff

I'v done some work to it this weekend.

From a box to nearly finished in a weekend, now that's good use of your time

Looks good

Looking good...and in quick tine as well