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That instrument panel certainly looks very realistic! Here is a quote from Kotare regarding the cockpit colors for the early Spitfires: "Interior areas were primed with light grey before being painted aluminium, except for the cockpit between frames 8 & 11 which was painted in a colour described as “Supermarine green” and “apple green”. Note that this is different from the paler, greyer, “Grey Green” (of which various colour mixes have additionally been noted) used on later production Spitfires built by other manufacturers."

That is awesome...I would never have guessed decals for the smoke rings!

Here is another: Production summary It will give short history that often includes fuselage codes. List is by serials.

Check out this site: Allocation by serial number It will only give you the squadron codes for a serial number, not the aircraft identifier.

Although this is a Mark Va, codes would still be 33B/157.

AMO A154/39 dated 27 April, 1939 directed the use of Grey codes. The Grey was identified as 33B/157, which some claim was Sea Grey Medium, but others believe was a different color. 33B/157 was developed in 1936 specifically for identification markings and would have been employed in the vast majority of cases.

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Spitfires K9815 through K9960 would have left the factory with 35 inch Type A1 roundels. These were modified to 25 inch Type B roundels beginning in March of 1939. In late November 1940 all units were directed to change from Type B roundels to Type A.

Fantastic!

I had not been to one in several years and went just to check it out. The stormy weather probably impacted attendance but there were lots of vendors. The kits I bought were models I built as a kid and have great box art, but aren't serious contenders when it come to accuracy.

Kotare have plans for an early Mark I.

Here is a clearer photo showing the serial of FZoL to be K9906... And here she is a few months later after the Squadron Code changed to YT... Aircraft is fitted with two pronged pitot tube and pole style mast, no armor on windscreen or voltage regulator. Serial number is also on fin in two inch lettering. In the second photo it appears to have been fitted with a reflector gun sight, replacing the earlier ring and bead.

Awesome photos! Thanks for posting!

From an old Scale Aircraft Modeling magazine, authored by Ted Hooton... K9956 was assigned to 65 Squadron on May 1, 1939. Reassigned to 603 Squadron on December 4, 1939. 17 April, 1940, aircraft overshot landing in heavy rain and overturned.

Air Ministry Order A.154/39 dated 27th April, 1939 directed the use of Type B fuselage roundels and the with the Grey Codes. Check this reference: Spitfire Markings

One big advantage EBay has is that it can connect sellers and buyers all over the world. Incidentally, last Sunday I went to the Kit Collectors International event in Orange County, California. Lots of old kits and very reasonable prices compared to Ebay, but it is a local event. I spent 68 bucks on five kits plus $7 for admission...

W.Nr. 16345 was built by Messerschmitt AG, Regensberg. Here is a link showing the various camouflage patterns applied: LINK

Yellow 1+- would denote 6 Staffel, II Gruppe.

In type written reporting the letter M was used to denote the III Gruppe markings. Yellow 1+M would indicate the machine was or had been assigned to 9 Staffel, III Gruppe. Perhaps the aircraft was reassigned to 6./JG 27 and was shot down before the the markings were changed to the second Gruppe horizontal bar.

Very realistic!

Fantastic!

Wow! Nice job on those smoke rings!

The cowling on the Bf 109 E does sit high as photos clearly show. Perhaps this is somewhat overemphasized on the Airfix kit, but it is a feature of the real aircraft. Here are a couple of photos of the machine depicted in the profile...

This aircraft is illustrated in "Wings of the Black Cross Number 7" as a G-6. The artist erroneously depicted the machine with the early tail and the cockpit battery box. Interestingly the aircraft has no victory marking applied.

Those are some nice shots Damian, thanks for posting. Video of this machine can be seen at this link: Hartmann. Video starts at 10:02...