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Richard Davenport
Lansing, Michigan
Richard finished Airfix’s 1/48 scale Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc as a fighter flown by Sgt. George Beurling in Malta, July 1942. “I was unable to locate any photos of Sgt. Beurling’s plane and illustrations of it are dissimilar,” Richard says. “However, there are numerous photos and film clips of Spitfires aboard and launching or being unloaded from aircraft carriers to Malta. These show the aircraft in a darker (not desert) camouflage scheme. Since many of them were loaded and shipped directly from ports in England, I concluded it was likely they were originally painted day fighter scheme and not repainted in desert camouflage.” He painted the camouflage with Vallejo Model Air Dark Green (No. 71.324) and Ocean Grey (No. 71.273) over Medium Sea Grey (No. 71.307). He detailed the Royal Air Force mainstay with Eduard Brassin exhausts and a cockpit and main wheels from Aires.