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Originally Posted by Friendly_flyer
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The markings on the Spitfire is a bit off though... The serial numbers were always in black, and in 1940 always a single letter followed by four numbers, with no spacing or hyphen.
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First, the Spit looks fantastic!!! Superb detail and weathering.
As for serial numbering, I agree with Friendly-flyer: Serial numbers should be of the letter plus four digits until August ’41 when Spitfires began to come off the production line with serial numbers with two letter and three digits. (having run through the Z-xxxx series)
A Spitfire with the serial number 7854 was in the "P" production series, i.e. P7854. P7854 was assigned to 74 Sqdn in March ‘41, and would have carried Sqdn code letters of ZP (ZP-B or, ZP-C, or ZP-X, etc) So the skin (in SOW:BofB) could hypothetically show for example, a ZP-D P7854. Or, of course, Sailor Malan’s actual Spit, ZP-A K9953.
Also, I’ve not yet been able to find a Sqdn identified with the code letters GB. If there is a photo basis could it be posted? I’d be very interested to know the historical basis for the GB-R 2-7854 shown in the screencaptured Spit.
I'm hoping for insanely accurate historical detail in SOW:BofB.
Keep up the good work, Oleg and team!