Greenshirt Modeler

Category: Aircraft

  • Spitfire Mk III – fin!

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    Spitfire III Prototype, N3297, Spring/Summer 1940 Finished! This is the prototype Spitfire III, of which only this and another were ever made; the type being superseded by the Spitfire V. The Subject The Spitfire III was meant to be the ultimate Merlin engined Spitfire; a truly air superiority aircraft that would outperform anything expected from…

  • French Spitfire

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    Spitfire XVI, TB702/GW-Y, 340 (French) Squadron, G/C 4/2, Ile de France 145 Wing, Drope, Germany, 1945 I chose this subject for three simple reasons: no fuselage stripe, no yellow leading edges, and it’s French. An easy build made even easier, and with a bit of unique color. The Subject From photos it appear that as…

  • Group Commander’s Hack

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    Spitfire XVI TE199, Air Officer Commanding 21 Group, RAF, Swinderby, 1948 This is next in my batch build of the Heller Spitfire XVI. The Subject TE199 was a Mk XVI completed on 23 April 1945, going to 412 Squadron post-war where after only a few days it went to the Staff College at White Waltham.…