Palm-tree Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Here is the 1/32 Tamiya kit of Johnnie Houlton’s spitfire IX ....OU-V , ML407, seen as she would have appeared when he took delivery of her in April 1944, before the gyro mk II gunsight was fitted. His ‘pink elephant’ mascot was painted underneath the windscreen. For a description of why he chose this mascot you can read the story behind it in his book. The aircraft still flies today as OU-V , and is well known as the ‘Grace Spitfire’ in it’s two seater configuration. The kit had HGW seatbelts, wet stencil decals, Tamiya RAF paint sprays (developed for this kit), Yahu instrument panel, Barracuda cockpit parts, and G-factor brass main gear and tail wheel strut. The engine module is not glued in yet pending the wiring being added to the Merlin, hence the slight gap around the nose cowlings. Work continues on this area. Rexx exhausts have replaced the kit items. P-t Nick32, Iain, LSP_Kevin and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Oooh lovely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 That's nice. Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Very nice! Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Beautiful work, she looks great Cheers Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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