Supermarine Spitfire MkVc FAFL
Groupe de Chasse 2/7 Nice

Subject:: Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc (Trop)
Forces Aériennes Françaises (French Air Force 1er août 1943-1945)
No. 326 (French) Sqn. - GC II/7 Nice 2 / JL316
1944
Dark earth, middle stone
Scale:: 1:72
Status:: Completed
Started:: August 8, 2021
Completed:: December 12, 2021

The PM model is very "simple", I'm planning to build this kit as a test, in order to use AK real colors and the beautiful decals I have 🙂

There is not much information about this plane, I only found a blog post were a French user built the same and wrote that it was "flown by Lieutenant Mangin of Groupe de Chasse 2/7 Nice of the French Air Force in 1943".

Project inventory

Full kits

Supermarine Spitfire VC Tropical

PM Model 1:72

PM-103 2008 New decals

Decals

Spitfire Mk.V Collection

AeroMaster 1:72

72-068 1998 New tool

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Photoalbums

21 images

My Supermarine Spitfire MkVc FAFL in progress and finished!

1:72

I had to drawing the canopy frames with a thin brush...Not a masterpiece, but ok. For the antenna wire I was unable to a...

Project: Supermarine Spitfire MkVc FAFL

1:72 Supermarine Spitfire VC Tropical (PM Model PM-103)

1:72 Spitfire Mk.V Collection (AeroMaster 72-068)

Part of my Collection

French roundels (also FAFL and Vichy)

Ideas 1×In progress 1×Completed 3×On hold 3×Queued 2×

Comments

4 7 August 2021, 16:31

AndreasK
Looking forward to this build and the French decals.

17 August 2021, 15:39

Moreno Baruffini Author
@AK84 I've added some pictures of the decals and the profile of the aircraft 👍🏻

21 August 2021, 16:22

AndreasK
Very nice. I like the interesting fact that it still has the British insignia on the tail fin. It shows that the people had other priorities in these times 🙂

22 August 2021, 04:53

Moreno Baruffini Author
I think that it's because the Free French pilots fought on Allied machines and their units were under the British organisation...

22 August 2021, 07:04

Supermarine Spitfire MkVc FAFLGroupe de Chasse 2/7 Nice