It seems that it is a difference between Vb and Vc versions.
My point is at Tamiya kit there are two strakes on the top wing section right above the landing gear bay. In a Spitfire cutaway they are named as strengthening strakes, but in a Magazine build up the writer suggest that they need to be removed.Any help here?..
Isnt the Vc wings clipped??
Can be either clipped or round, I think the particular version has the clipped wings…
I had read somewhere that those strakes were added in later versions of the aircraft and should be removed for the earlier Mk Vb…you better check your references…
later
The story about the strakes is that the Spitfire Tamiya took the measurements from had a flying accident, the wings were damaged a little. So the strakes were added to strengthen the wings. Then Tamiya came along and copied everything to make there kit
thats the story i heard
Its the same with a Messerschmitt 410 kit, where the propeller blades were clipped on the kit, and not in reality, that’s because the 410 at RAF Cosford museum was damaged during trials after the war, one of the propeller blades was damaged, so instead of repairing the one blade the RAF chopped the ends off the rest, so they all looked the same
As you can see in this photo
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~pc6m-wkn/Cosford.htm
Wow…That means you can not trust museums either…Seems that Agent Malder was right after all…So my blades will taste blood…lol …
I recently built a Mk Vc from the tamiya kit…the Vc had the “c” wing which means the the wheel bulges on the top of the wing should go, cannon stubs for the optional,but seldom used, second set of cannons should be added and the blister over the gun compartment should be altered/ enlarged…somehting I did not do on my build. I learned these facts from helpful folks here and at Hyperscale…thanks again guys!
Click on the link below my Fw 190 picture to see a photo of my Vc.
One would think that after Tamiya got so burned – as did a lot of modelers – on their long-awaited Meteor Mk. 1, they would have learned a simple, valuable lesson: ask questions. If you will recall, they took their data from a museum piece that turned out to be very much a hybrid bird, and not a proper Mk. 1, or any other Meteor mark, if memory serves. Well, one would think they and other large manufacturers, like Monogram, would ask the simple question: “Now, since we are taking these painstaking measurements and these thousands of photos, Mr. Museum Curator, is there anything about this particular bird that is not representative of the entire type?”
I believe that’s Journalism 101 stuff.