I know, I know: the Spanish Republic never had Spitfires at hand… not even in their dreams!
However, I had been storing for too long that 1/144 scale plastic Spitfire from Revell, so that I decided to give it a try…
Nothing of a piece of art, I admit. But it has given to me the opportunity of training myself at this job --and that's enough to me.
It has been painted in a 3-colours scheme inspired in that of French aircraft, rather than the classical British 2-colours pattern. However, palette finally applied is far more adapted to Mediterranean theatre: earth brown, olive green and sand.
Decals come from a variety of sources: roundels are current Spanish ones with the central disk masked by a tiny home-made purple decal, numerals are those of a Polikarpov I-16 and tail devices are those of the 13th Fighters Squadron based at El Prat (Barcelona) --4-leaf shamrock on a black circle.
Oh, pilot is from Reviresco…
A couple of pictures else of it can be seen here: link
