Here's some I built earlier.....

[zenrat]

Ooh that's good Mossie.  I had to look twice.

Loupgarou - it was a discussion somewhere here about Airacobra doors (and whether the slipstream would hold them closed and prevent the pilot from escaping) that fired the neurons that resulted in the Car Door Hurricane.  I hinged the doors at the back specifically because I could think of no situation where the pilot would want to open the door in flight other than to bale out ("Goodness me, there's a cat out there on the wing.  I'll just pop out and give it a bowl of milk...") and so it didn't matter if the wind ripped them off.
What I did with the paintjob was much more subtle...

[Mossie]

Ta Fred!

[Captain Canada]

Nice one. Sure changes the look of it !

[Hotte]

Built, but not finished.

Spitfire Mk.I with inverted Merlin (not a DB or Jumo engine).  There were plans early on to build the PV.12 as an inverted V but the format was dropped after discussions with manufacturers.

Looks like a Heinkel 


Hotte

[Mossie]

Hadn't thought about that, it does kind of look like a He-100.  Blue-on-blues likely if both had been in service.

I've tried as much as possible to avoid it looking like a German type, although it's basically impossible!  I stepped on the canopy and considered using the early flat canopy in the kit, but figured it would look too much like a '109.  Fortunately Narses furnished me with a spare.

[RAFF-35]

The inverted engine would've been very beneficial as I'm guessing that it would've over come the issues around not being able to see if you're going to roll the spit into a bomb crater while taxiing and stuff

[tc2324]

I really like this.

Sure the front bit looks a tad `german`, but the rest of it screams British in my eyes. 

[Captain Canada]

I thought it looked different, but now that you guys have mentioned the Heinkel I can't see it as anything but German ! It would be neat to paint 2 of them, one standard RAF and one Luftwaffe !

[Mossie]

Cheers guys.  I did think of displaying it against a Merlin engined Spit and Brengun's DB605 powered Spitfire to show the difference but abandoned the idea when it stalled.

[The Rat]

Blackburn Skua III:

AAAAAAARRRRRGGGHH!!! I just started one of those!

Back to the drawing board.

Looks good. 

[Rick Lowe]

Blackburn Skua III:

AAAAAAARRRRRGGGHH!!! I just started one of those!

Back to the drawing board.

Looks good. 

Why? There's nothing to stop you doing one of your own - ok, maybe not for the GB, but if you want one anyway, I say go for it!
There again, you could do one for the GB with a load of RPs maybe?? Or a big Radar bulge and a couple of Depth Charges?

Cheers

[The Rat]

There again, you could do one for the GB with a load of RPs maybe??

Exactly what I had in mind! Some of the rails from the Beaufighter kit were a little short-shot, but I trimmed them all back to the same length last night.

[Captain Canada]

Sounds good Rat. Might as well finish her !

[Rick Lowe]

Yeah, go for it! Be a shame to waste all that work.

Cheers

[kitbasher]

Blackburn Skua III:

AAAAAAARRRRRGGGHH!!! I just started one of those!

Back to the drawing board.

Looks good. 

Do your own version - or a single seat fighter Skua!