Water Mark decals

1/48 Spitfire decal sheet

WW2 D-Day Canadian Spitfires product # 48003

Review by Steve Bamford

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This decal sheet permits the modeller to build any of 8 Canadian Spitfires (June to Dec 1944) depicted on this sheet.  All these 8 planes carry some sort of D-Day Stripe on them.  This decal sheet is high quality in printing and is perfectly in register.  There are even white decals to go under some of the decals with white on them, in an effort to make sure those decal's white areas are white in appearance when the decaling is all complete.  The instruction sheets are VERY extensive in nature (as you will see below).  The planes covered in this decal sheet are:

  • 1)  Johnnie Johnson's JE-J Jr. (his back up plane) (MK 329)  Spitfire Mk IX, 144 Wing (this plane was famous for carrying a beer keg on one of the wings bomb racks for re-supplying beer to the men under Johnnie Johnson's command)

  • 2) Wally McLeod's 2I-E  (MK 636) Spitfire Mk IX, 443 Squadron

  • 3) William Austin's AE-G (RM 687) Spitfire Mk XIV, 402 Squadron

  • 4) Larry Seath's PA 900 Spitfire Mk XI, 400 Squadron

  • 5) Bill Week's Y2-D (MK 416) Spitfire Mk IX, 442 Squadron

  • 6) Andy Mc Neice's DB-L (ML 686) Spitfire Mk IX, 411 Squadron

  • 7) Hugh Ritchie's 9G-H (MK 941) Spitfire Mk IX, 441 Squadron

  • 8)  H. Garwood's VZ-S (MJ 255) Spitfire Mk IX, 412 Squadron  

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The instruction sheets are extensive beyond belief.

Steve

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Photos and text © by Steve Bamford