Foreign Spitfire Mk IX, Dutch Air Force

The RAF had many Dutch pilots, enough to form a pair of squadrons 320 Bombardment equipped with B-25s and 322 Fighter equipped with Spitfires, after the war these units formed the core of the new Royal Force. Dutch Air (Koninklijke Luchtmacht)

The Spitfire was the standardized fighter in 1946 and for several years, in Europe, because the Dutch Air Force was divided into two sections, the Colonial, with P-40 and P-51 and which fought in the Pacific, and the European with Spitfires.

Unlike other European countries that no longer saw combat after 1945, the Dutch sent their units to fight in the East Indies, until the independence of Indonesia, so this unit of Spitfires was heavily involved in the fighting.

The model represents a Spitfire from Squadron 322 (322e Jachtvliegtuig Afdeling), the new unit that resumed the traditions of the Three White Mice Squadron, destroyed at the beginning of World War II, the model is by Necomisa, somewhat modified, the painting is El Viejo Marino (Ye Olde Seaman), all the decoration by brush.

Hurricane Mk IV, 73 Squadron, Desert Air Force

 The first Hurricane Squadron to reach the western desert, was 73 Squadron, arriving at Heliopolis in December 1940, they were immediately assigned to combat, replacing the slow Gladiators and prevailing over the Italian Cr.42 fighters, but there were never enough of them. fighters, they fought the entire campaign, often taking off from improvised airfields in the middle of the desert, they usually participated in strafing ground troops when they could get rid of their air duties, in June 1943 they transitioned to Spitfires.

MODEL: Hawker Hurricane Mk IV

BRAND: Airfix

UNIT: 73 Squadron

CODES: R

SCALE: 1/72

PAINTING: El Viejo Marino

TECHNIQUE: Brush

NOTES: My collection of desert hurricanes took a long time to complete, because it was done before the Internet, when information about airplanes could only be found in books or magazines, which did not always reach my country, so it was not uncommon for a model will be based on a single photo