Air Modeller 16

During the last months of the WWII, the chaotic situation of the German war effort due to the bombing campaign, damages on the industrial network, loss of territory and pressure after several years of heavy fighting meant the appearance of Luftwaffe aircraft changed a lot compared to the very clean and "serious" look of the early war. The main reason for these changes was the need to de-centralize aircraft production, with different parts of the airplane manufactured in a different factories and also pre-painted in different ways using different raw materials and colours. At same time in order to save time and take into account the very short life of combat aircraft, the need for camouflaged areas was less important on the undersides. With the need to survive the hordes of strafing allied air forces the upper surface camouflage had to be maintained as much as possible. Additionally new colours used due to this chaotic situation could appear on areas areas of the planes.

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Air Modeller 29

To begin, the first thing I did was to mark with pencil lines all the rivet lines on the aircraft and to then add the rivets following these lines with a rivetting tool. The Spitfire has many rivets but its not too difficult to do, It only requires a good dose of patience and keeping in mind the finished result. Upon finishing this. I moved onto the interior, and as I remarked in the introduction, the cockpit in resin Is excellent, but I wanted to go a little further and as I love to do interiors I set out to add the interior of the fuselage structure and the cameras. To do this it is advisable to have proper reference which Is not too difficult to find due to the popularity of the plane. Evergreen rods were used to add the interior ribs taking care to check the alignment between the two halves of the fuselage. The cameras were constructed from plastic sheet and rod. Then I just had to assemble the pieces of the resin cockpit and add to it a small console on one side which is what controls the cameras. Before all this, I had already marked the outlines of the access covers for the cameras and battery, and opened them up to show the interior. New covers were made from plastic working from my references. The rudder is also requires a small correction to its tip which needs to be more pointed, for this version of the Mk.XI. This can be done without much difficulty with a piece added and then sanded to shape.

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The Gloster & AW Meteor - A Comprehensive Guide for the Modeller

The development of turbine engines in England began during the mid-twenties, when Rolls-Royce was considering an axial flow turbine to drive a propeller in 1926. W.C. Clothier carried out tests on a single-stage compressor and a single-stage turbine the following year. No more serious investigations and studies were conducted in this area for several years, until Frank Whittle provided the necessary drive to bring the jet engine into practical reality. Whittle had begun thinking about gas turbines in 1929, taking out his first patent on 16th January 1930. It was only six years later that his dream began to materialise, having gained the financial support of O.T. Falk & Company, when Power Jets Ltd was incorporated in March 1936 with an authorised capital of 10,000.

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The Supermarine Spitfire Part 1 Merlin Powered - A Comprehensive Guide for the Modeller

The Type 224 first flew in February 1934, and was christened the 'Spitfire' some time before July 1935. An aircraft of all metal construction, the Type 224 was a cranked, low-winged monoplane, sporting a fixed undercarriage in spatted fairings. The engine chosen was the Rolls-Royce Goshawk, which was capable of producing 660 hp. Incorporated into the design was a newly developed evaporation coolant system, which did not turn out to be the success hoped, as the engine was always prone to overheating when in flight. Unfortunately for Vickers Supermarine, their tender for the specification was not chosen, the winners being Gloster with their biplane design, the SS.37, which entered service with the RAF as the Gladiator. Only one example of the Type 224 was built. Given the serial number K2890, it was finally put out to grass at the target range at Orfordness, where it was used as a ground firing target.

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