Real Life Luftwaffe Spitfires

Weaver · January 22, 2023, 08:08:53 AM

So here's one you could do that looks like a whiff but could then confound the JMNs by actually being real:

Apparently these are 17 squadron Spitfires (of at least two different marks) painted up to play the bad guys for a Farnborough display in 1950:

Original Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/clark_aviation/status/1617123284033699843?s=20&t=TY2B7s5c5ItH3FrTjQ5INw
Reply with 2nd image: https://twitter.com/simon_cruddace/status/1617125460470546434?s=20&t=TY2B7s5c5ItH3FrTjQ5INw

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Rheged · January 22, 2023, 08:35:35 AM

As an exercise in JMN-boggling, this has considerable potential!

PR19_Kit · January 22, 2023, 08:36:52 AM

Hmm, I should remember that display as I was there, but I don't.

That would have been something to see.

scooter · January 22, 2023, 08:39:16 AM

Quote from: Rheged on January 22, 2023, 08:35:35 AMAs an exercise in JMN-boggling, this has considerable potential!

Especially with other Allied equipment that the Germans grabbed, and reused.

perttime · January 22, 2023, 11:59:35 AM

They could all be Mk XVI?

Weaver · January 22, 2023, 12:56:26 PM

Quote from: perttime on January 22, 2023, 11:59:35 AMThey could all be Mk XVI?

Yes I think you're right: there were Mk.XVIs with razor-backs and bubble-hoods.

The Wooksta! · January 22, 2023, 02:41:51 PM

Mk XVIs all had US built Packard Merlins. They had different fittings and top cowls, so they were given a specific mark number. Most had the pointed rudder, many were bubbletop but all seem to have had e wings, four spoke wheels and tropical filters from the get go.

zenrat · January 23, 2023, 02:53:58 AM

Year or so ago at Model Expo one of the model club displays was Adolf Galland's Spitfires.
It was based on his reply to fatty's question "what do you need to defeat the RAF?" which was supposed to have been "a squadron of Spitfires".
The club members had all built 1/48 Spits (all the same kit) in nazi colours and they looked great. While admiring them we were informed by the club member standing guard that they were having issues with irate JMNs who objected to the theme.

Rheged · January 23, 2023, 10:23:50 AM

Quote from: zenrat on January 23, 2023, 02:53:58 AMYear or so ago at Model Expo one of the model club displays was Adolf Galland's Spitfires.
It was based on his reply to fatty's question "what do you need to defeat the RAF?" which was supposed to have been "a squadron of Spitfires".
The club members had all built 1/48 Spits (all the same kit) in nazi colours and they looked great. While admiring them we were informed by the club member standing guard that they were having issues with irate JMNs who objected to the theme.

I think that this is a superb idea! Whoever thought of the idea deserves to be awarded the accolade of "Fellow of the Imperial Society of Inverted Sideways Thinkers". This is a qualification that most if not all of us are entitled to use. Rheged: FISIST, MNB**, FRGS, FRMetS CDMU*etc.***

* Cadbury's Dairy Milk User.
** Master Numpty Boggler
***Yes, these are genuine qualifications (mostly)