Models & Musings
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Blogger has changed…
A bit of whinge if you’ll allow… I manage multiple blogs using Blogger, plus I use it to follow quite a few other blogs out there. Google has decided that a new format would be “better” but now it means I have to change how I manage and view all of that. (OBTW, I don’t…
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South African Spitifire
Spitfire Vc(T), No. 2 Squadron SAAF, Palata, Italy, 1944 I like the Vc as it affords the most unique paint schemes of all Spitfire marks; and appears to have been used by more countries during the war than any other single variant. This one I particularly like because No. 2 Squadron was likely the only…
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V-1 Defender
Spitfire XIV RB159 / DW-D 610 Squadron RAF, Spring 1944 I tried kit bashing, something I have done rarely and only with the Spitfire, to make a XIVc from the Airfix IX and XIX kits. The Subject The XIV began showing up in squadrons late 1943 and early 1944. Initially they were used to replace…