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RealAir Spitfire
- Thread starter jankees
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, I do love it when all this extra photo material and details pops out, Paul 
Bradburger
Charter Member
Ah yes, I remember!
(I was going to suggest JKB might borrow your bump map for it!)
Here are a few more pictures of the high back FR.XIV fuselage camera doors.
I also found this excerpt from a model decal sheet which features RM818, although it's on the small side: -
The other thing if I might suggest, is to remove the 'rogue' battery access hatch on the rear starboard fuselage, as Jens Ole has done on his repaints.
Cheers
Paul
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Love the repaints so far, thanks!
Would it be possible to do PS915 in her new silver colour scheme to represent Spitfire PS852. I know the actual aircraft is a Mk XIX but the Mk XIV could substitute well enough.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8719/28384948644_47ce16cd6b_b.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8663/28384946864_e0dea0bcd4_b.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqTKb5kWYAIaCpA.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CquhD7AW8AEnmwC.jpg
Would be great if this could be done
Thanks
Jamie
Would it be possible to do PS915 in her new silver colour scheme to represent Spitfire PS852. I know the actual aircraft is a Mk XIX but the Mk XIV could substitute well enough.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8719/28384948644_47ce16cd6b_b.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8663/28384946864_e0dea0bcd4_b.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqTKb5kWYAIaCpA.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CquhD7AW8AEnmwC.jpg
Would be great if this could be done
Thanks
Jamie
jankees
SOH-CM-2025
Real Air may have gone, but their models remain!
So one more paint for the Spitfire Mk XIV:
Spitfire Mk.XIV RM656 DL-F, which was the aircraft that Captain Jean Maridor, of the Free French Air Force, was flying on the 3rd of August 1944, when he was killed while destroying a V1. Jean Maridor was born in Le Havre, France on the 24 November, 1920. He became interested in flying at a young age. He stopped his studies to focus of this new interest. Maridor began to take many courses in flying. He obtained his pilot's license at 16, making him the youngest pilot in France. In 1939, he joined the French Air Force and received his pilot's wings in September 1939, continuing his training on the Dewoitine D520. He joined a squadron just two days before the French Surrender, only to receive the order to burn his aircraft. After the French surrender, Maridor left to go to England with many other French pilots, where he joined the R.A.F. After training, he began flying with the 615 Squadron on Hurricanes. He scored his first kill on the 14th of October 1941. In February 1942, he transferred to 91 squadron, flying Spitfires, where he scored a further 8 kills, one of which was Lt Paul Galland, the brother of Adolf Galland, in October 1942.
From June 1944, 91 squadron flew the Spitfire Mk XIV and specialized in shooting down the V1's that the Germans started sending over to the UK. Capt Maridor was successful at this too, shooting down 6 of the Doodlebugs before his final flight on the 3rd of August 1944. On this day, Maridor intercepted a Doodlebug over Rolvenden around 12:33. Flying towards the bomb, he shot at it at 12:39. Although he hit it, the bomb was only damaged not destroyed. On his second attack, he saw the bomb was heading for Benenden School, which at the time was being used as a military hospital. Knowing that hundreds of lives would be lost if the bomb was to hit, Maridor launched a final attack at 12.43. He approached to less than 50 metres to ensure he would not miss a second time. The Doodlebug exploded this time, but the wing of his plane was caught in the explosion and ripped from the body. The plane crashed beside the lake on the school grounds, killing Maridor just 8 days before his wedding. His fiancée has been quoted as saying he would not have hesitated in his attack on the bomb. He knew that many lives would have been lost otherwise.
link to paint: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/5919-real-air-spitfire-xiv-rm656-dl-f-no-91-sqn/
So one more paint for the Spitfire Mk XIV:
Spitfire Mk.XIV RM656 DL-F, which was the aircraft that Captain Jean Maridor, of the Free French Air Force, was flying on the 3rd of August 1944, when he was killed while destroying a V1. Jean Maridor was born in Le Havre, France on the 24 November, 1920. He became interested in flying at a young age. He stopped his studies to focus of this new interest. Maridor began to take many courses in flying. He obtained his pilot's license at 16, making him the youngest pilot in France. In 1939, he joined the French Air Force and received his pilot's wings in September 1939, continuing his training on the Dewoitine D520. He joined a squadron just two days before the French Surrender, only to receive the order to burn his aircraft. After the French surrender, Maridor left to go to England with many other French pilots, where he joined the R.A.F. After training, he began flying with the 615 Squadron on Hurricanes. He scored his first kill on the 14th of October 1941. In February 1942, he transferred to 91 squadron, flying Spitfires, where he scored a further 8 kills, one of which was Lt Paul Galland, the brother of Adolf Galland, in October 1942.
From June 1944, 91 squadron flew the Spitfire Mk XIV and specialized in shooting down the V1's that the Germans started sending over to the UK. Capt Maridor was successful at this too, shooting down 6 of the Doodlebugs before his final flight on the 3rd of August 1944. On this day, Maridor intercepted a Doodlebug over Rolvenden around 12:33. Flying towards the bomb, he shot at it at 12:39. Although he hit it, the bomb was only damaged not destroyed. On his second attack, he saw the bomb was heading for Benenden School, which at the time was being used as a military hospital. Knowing that hundreds of lives would be lost if the bomb was to hit, Maridor launched a final attack at 12.43. He approached to less than 50 metres to ensure he would not miss a second time. The Doodlebug exploded this time, but the wing of his plane was caught in the explosion and ripped from the body. The plane crashed beside the lake on the school grounds, killing Maridor just 8 days before his wedding. His fiancée has been quoted as saying he would not have hesitated in his attack on the bomb. He knew that many lives would have been lost otherwise.
link to paint: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/5919-real-air-spitfire-xiv-rm656-dl-f-no-91-sqn/
