Here is the model painted. I went with doing Caldwell’s third Spitfire Vc for two reasons: a) I have the markings on the great Spitfire: Aces of the Empire sheet, and b) there are several photos of it to assist.
Unlike the earlier Spitfire Vc’s that were delivered to Australia in desert markings, with the Mid Stone repainted with Foliage Green, leaving the RAF Dark Earth and Azure Blue, JL394 was one of the later ones that got a full repaint in Australian colors: Earth Brown, Foliage Green and Sky Blue. I went with Brett Green’s interpretation of the upper colors, for which I used Tamiya XF-79 “Linoleum Deck Brown” for the Earth Brown, lightened to imitate sun facing with some XF-72 “JGSDF Brown.” The Foliage Green was done with XF-26 “Deep Green”, with some XF-3 “Flat Green” to lighten for post-shading. The Sky Blue was mixed from eyeballing the color used for squadron codes on the Aeromaster sheet 48-667 “Aussie Spits Mk. V Part II”, for which I used XF-23 “Light Blue,” XF-21 “Sky” and XF-2 “Flat White” to get “close.”
Fortunately one of the shots of JL394 shows the leading edge of the wing, which had a much narrower area of white on the leading edge, which only extended as far out as the outer machine guns.
On to the decals – fortunately, repainted Aussie Spits didn’t have the stencils.
Full review at Modeling Madness this coming Thursday.
5 attached images. Click to enlarge.
