Wednesday, February 09, 2011 - 08:22 PM UTC
Here is a new set of 1:48 decals coming from Freightdog.
Here is the next next Freightdog decal sheet. This one is aimed at the new Airfix 1/48th Seafire XVII and re-issued FR.46/47, also taking advantage of the cross kit potential with the new Spitfire XII to make a Seafire Mk.XV too. The Supermarine Seafire was a naval version of the Supermarine Spitfire specially adapted for operation from aircraft carriers. The name Seafire was arrived at by collapsing the longer name Sea Spitfire.
Freightdog has managed to get nine options on an A5 piece of artwork by not included roundels for every option. This is because the new Airfix kits include Cartograf decal sheets already covering stencils and roundels, so I have only included items not on the kit sheets. Options covered are four Mk.XVII, three Mk.XV and one each of the FR.46 and FR.47.
The Seafire F Mk XVII was essentially a modified Mk XV; the most important change was the reinforced main undercarriage which used longer oleos and a lower rebound ratio. This went some way towards taming the deck behaviour of the Mk XV, reduced the propensity of the propeller tips "pecking" the deck during an arrested landing, and the softer oleos stopped the aircraft from occasionally bouncing over the arrestor wires and into the crash barrier. Most production XVIIs had the cut down rear fuselage and teardrop canopy (the windscreen was modified to a rounded section, with narrow quarter windows, rather than the flat windscreen used on Spitfires) and an extra 33 gallon fuel tank fitted in the rear fuselage. In addition the wings were reinforced, with a stronger mainspar necessitated by the new undercarriage, and they were able to carry heavier underwing loads than previous Seafire variants. 232 of this variant were built by Westland (212) and Cunliffe-Owen.
Release date is hopefully in about three weeks time.
Freightdog has managed to get nine options on an A5 piece of artwork by not included roundels for every option. This is because the new Airfix kits include Cartograf decal sheets already covering stencils and roundels, so I have only included items not on the kit sheets. Options covered are four Mk.XVII, three Mk.XV and one each of the FR.46 and FR.47.
The Seafire F Mk XVII was essentially a modified Mk XV; the most important change was the reinforced main undercarriage which used longer oleos and a lower rebound ratio. This went some way towards taming the deck behaviour of the Mk XV, reduced the propensity of the propeller tips "pecking" the deck during an arrested landing, and the softer oleos stopped the aircraft from occasionally bouncing over the arrestor wires and into the crash barrier. Most production XVIIs had the cut down rear fuselage and teardrop canopy (the windscreen was modified to a rounded section, with narrow quarter windows, rather than the flat windscreen used on Spitfires) and an extra 33 gallon fuel tank fitted in the rear fuselage. In addition the wings were reinforced, with a stronger mainspar necessitated by the new undercarriage, and they were able to carry heavier underwing loads than previous Seafire variants. 232 of this variant were built by Westland (212) and Cunliffe-Owen.
Release date is hopefully in about three weeks time.
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