1/48 ICM Spitfire IXc

by Tomasz Gronczewski 

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  Poland Independence Day 2004 

 

Spitfire Mk IXc EN128 of the 306th Sqn flown by Henryk Pietrzak. Pietrzak was one of the Polish aces who started their scores after evacuation to Great Britain. He downed 3.00 enemy aircraft flying Spitfires with 306th Sqn in 1941/42 as well as 4.83 enemy aircraft plus 4 V-1s while flying Mustang IIIs with 306th and 315th Sqn in 1944. On Dec 31st 1942 he was honoured to score 500th victory for the Polish Air Force in UK. He flew EN128 for that memorable mission.

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The model is ICM 1/48th Spitfire IXc built basically out of the box. The camouflage was painted freehand using Model Master II authentics. The codes were sprayed using custom cut vinyl masks. The roundels and the finflashes were taken from an Aeromaster RAF set. The serial and the badges were printed on the Tango Papa Decal film using OKI DP-5000 printer.

Tomasz 

Photos and text © by Tomasz Gronczewski