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Originally Posted by Garion
Airfix 1/24th scale 
I'll get my coat
Cheers
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I built it, when I was younger : a nice set !!!
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Originally Posted by Egan
It's strange, isn't it? There were MK Vs in use in Oz/SWPac by '43 (I think,) so MKIIs just seems odd. I wonder if it's a mistake. I'm surprised that there were any MKIIs in production at all that late.
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In 1943, there were mainly Spitfires Mk. VC in Burma.
I found this information in one of my Osprey books "
Spitfire Aces of Burma and the Pacific", by Andrew Thomas (published in 2009):
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From late 1943 the RAF and RAAF squadrons in Burma and the Pacific were equipped with Spitfire VIIIs.
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Cheers.