Spitfire Vb, BR294/GL-E, 185 Sqn, Hal Far, Malta, June 1942.

BR294 wears the standard Desert Scheme; the fuselage roundels are the early A1 type and the underwing roundels are the early A type. The fin flash has the early equally-spaced red-white-blue bars; apparently this combination of national markings was common on Spitfires delivered to Malta before June 1942. Very little other information on this aircraft, except that it belly-landed on 2nd July 1942 and broke its back.


Changes to this model: New cockpit wingview, new gunsight lens. Larger section of rear fuselage available for non-mirror code markings; general clean-up of 3dz and .pcx files. 


Credits:

3DZ Model:

This model has now passed through so many hands that crediting is difficult; if you had any part in it and I have not mentioned you, please forgive me. The known contributors are Paulo Morais,Captain Manduca, Captain Kurt, Claudio Wilches and myself.

Skin:

Again, a bit of a mish-mash, but primarily Jamie Richards for the upper sufaces of the main skin and Migge for the lower surfaces (with bits from myself) and Claudio Wilches for the cockpit set which includes Migge's tex and instruments, plus a new wingview and what I hope is the correct gunsight for a MkVa onwards, the square-lensed Mk.2 (by myself).

References:

I am hugely indebted to Maltese Aviation Historian Richard Caruana, whose feature "Defenders of the George Cross Island" in Scale Aviation Modeller (vol.8 iss.4, April 02) provided both the information and colour plates that made it possible for me to present this aircraft. 

Caveat:

The .3dz files as well as the .tpc files are not interchangable with all Spitfire skins. To install, drop the .3dz and .tpc files into your EAW directory, to uninstall delete the files. If you are using Dom's Skin randomiser, drop the files into the relevant sub-folder in the "SP2A" folder in the "Skins" directory.

I hope that you find a good use for this skin. Comments, queries, recriminations etc. welcomed via the SimHQ forum.

Cheers

Stew aka GhostBoy

April 02

 

