Khemedi Spitfire conversions (Tintin 15)

Scale:: 1:72
Status:: Ideas
Started:: March 12, 2019

Aero-Vee tropical carburetor filters & custom canopies with sliding section for easy letter dropping.

Project inventory

Scratchbuilt No kits or aftermaket sets are attached.

Project references

Merlin The Legendary Engine and Its Aircraft

Aeroplane Aviation Archive No. 29

Allan Burney

2016

Part of my Collection

Herge's Aircraft

Ideas 25×On hold 1×

Comments

12 March 2019, 13:39

Matthew A
Right: PR.IV (Herge based this on a photo of a Mk.I, I've flopped the picture to show the oil cooler and radiator on the correct sides. Interestingly he's extended the intake maybe to emulate a tropical filter - something the Blue Rider team missed). Center: PR.XI with Aero-Vee. Insert Mk.VIII low back prototype (first had a round tail) without cannon. Left: Only just discovered that the drawing is completely different in the 1949 version. First thought is that it looks like a Seafire Mk.III as many had Aero-Vees and 6 firshtail exhausts but more research is needed.

12 March 2019, 14:00