Hello everyone,
I'm new here, but have been back at the hobby for about a year and a half now. Quite a few kits full of mistakes, but it's helped me learn quite a bit and improve a fair bit too.
At the moment, I'm working at tamiya's spitfire mk vb in 1:48 from RAF 303 squadron (the Polish wing) for a friend of my Father's of Polish descent. My end goal is to have it set on a small diorama with pilots scrambling around it (possibly even italeri's new hurricane posed beside it in similar unit markings). I'm using quite a bit of Eduard's photo etch, Techmod's 303 squad decals and Ultracast's control surfaces and Hispano cannons.
As I am using Eduard's etch, I am planning to pose the unit with landing flaps opened. This begs my first question, does anyone out there know were the interior of the landing flaps painted the same RAF interior green as the cockpit by chance? I am assuming they would be, but I want to be historically accurate in this. My other question, along the same lines, does anyone know what color the interior / oleos of the landing gear were painted typically?
Having poked through the forums in the past, I think there are quite a few Spitfire aficionados out there, any help would be greatly appreciated.