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Norwegian Spitfire IX mega pack

JensOle

JensOle

SOH-CM-2023
Hi,

Over the last 5 years I have been working on a rather large collection of paints for the Realair Spitfire IX covering the entire period the mark IX was used by the Royal Norwegian Air Force (1942-1952). Both 331 and 331 sqn aircraft are included. The count is now 18 texture sets..!

Main periods with distinct scheme variations which are covered:
-Early war years 42-43
-Late war 44-45
-"Homecoming flight" with flag rudders 1945
-Early post war 46-49
-Final years-50-52

The problem is really to hold control of all of the texture files and mods right now... So I'm searching for a few Spitfire maniacs here at the forum for some test work on the package. If anybody are interested, please send me a pm with email adr. The files will be delivered as a dropbox link.

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Awesome effort there JensOle! Once published I had better have finished my hanger expansion to fit them all in. It is winter and those lovelies should not have to sit outside in the foul weather.
 
Thanks!

It is a quite a lot of work to check all the textures that they are to the latest standards and have all the changes made over the years I have worked on this project, but I think I'm getting closer to a release.

Of historical interest is that AH-Z EN177 was flown by the Norwegian ace 2.Lt Marius Eriksen on April 20th 1943 when he shot down a high flying German Ju-88 T-1 at 35000 ft over England. Eriksen was by many believed to be the most talented Norwegian fighter pilot of the entire war, he scored 9 victories before he was shot down in May 1943. Back to the Junkers history, As you maybe have read so was it the personal aircraft of the B-flight commander Capt. Werner Christie. Christie was actually on readiness alert at North Weald that day and Eriksen had leave, but he cycled over to the squadron area and when the scramble came, Christie was at the toilet so Eriksen just in shorts and civilian clothes jumped in the aircraft and took off to intercept the intruder!

Another side fact is that Marius has sort of been immortalised in Norway, most people don't know his war history, but the knitted sweater called "Marius genser" in Norwegian which his mother made to him is maybe the most knitted sweater pattern in the country! He also played in several films in Norway after the war, in one he actually played a F-84 sqn commander which had flown Spitfires during the war. The movie was shot at Rygge AB involving Thunderjets from both 330 and 332 (his old squadron from the war!). The flying scenes are actually quite good.
 
As someone with a majority share of Norwegian ancestry and as one who has had the good fortune to travel for a bit around your absolutely beautiful country, these liveries are right up my alley!
I'm already familiar with a few that you've previously released, and it'll be nice to have a complete set!
 
Good evening JensOle,
check your mails... I found a small issue in your cfg file regarding Spitfire EN177 (AH-Z) :wavey:
Cheers,

Stéph.
 
I love your RNoAF repaints and what must be a ton of researched aviation history. :)

You don't happen to use DCS? The Saber there is in bad need of your RNoAF repaints. :) They are even working on a Spitfire IX right now. ;)
 
No dcs for me. But i have moved over to p3d. Quite happy with the update and smoothness. I'll include 4 more paints. Two clipped wings paints of nh550/ ah-s of the homecoming flight and 46' look with Norwegian roundels. The last two will be IXc's flown by Leif Lundstein, both coded fn-r.
 
Merry Christmas everybody!

The beta testing is going forward and I hope to have it ready for release in a few days.

The pack has been extended with 3 more texture sets:
-IXe clipped wings NH550 "AH-S", homecoming flight in 45
-IXe clipped wings NH550 "AH-S", overpainted RAF decals-early Norwegian decals 46.
NH550 is a bit interesting since it is also in this pack in its 1951 look as AH-Z with normal wing tips and pointed rudder.

-IXc BS125 FN-R of B-flight commander/later sqn commander 331, Leif Lundsten.
 
Those look great!

Here is my attempt at a 1/72 scale model of Z*AH, i know it shouldn't have the antenna wire but i struggled too much attaching the wire before i discovered it was wrong.

Merry Christmas

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Nice model, but just like the realair model, it has the wrong IX wing armament (the IXe as Norway used after the war had the 20mm canons in the outer bay and the .50-cal in the inner). Which decal set did you use? The Norwegian roundels looks to have the wrong dimensions and only the wing roundels should have the half width white ring (fuselage had same dimensions on both blue and white ring).

AH-S. This is actually one of my favourite schemes. Compared to the FN-K scheme of the same time period, 332 sqn used smaller sized wing roundels (you can see the overpainted RAF roundel), but full size fuselage roundel (same size as RAF roundel). Most 331 Sqn Spitfires were painted the other way!

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IXe NH550 "AH-S" of 332 Sqn, homecoming flight to Norway 1945.

The plan is to upload the package tomorrow.

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Nh550 has a typical RAF late war/ immediate post war scheme where the b type roundel has been replaced with the c type and the serial number is painted on the underside of the wings.
 
Hello JensOle,
the link you sent in the mail for v3 is invalid at the moment... may be is that too late? :dizzy:
 
Historical accuracy is a sort of a can of Worms when you first starts to dig for more information and Reference pictures.. One new details suddenly needs to be implemented on several other of the paints for a given period etc and so it continues..
 
The beta team has been of great help.

Several issues have been brought to my attention. Bradburger also pointed out that the panel lines/bump files of the original Realair textures and paintkit have a lot of errors for the IX mark; the radio hatch on the left side is not included, rear access hatch on both sides when it should also be on the right side etc. The cockpit crowbar has the wrong colour for a wartime spitfire, Realair has painted it red (as seen on most modern warbird spitfires), it should be either green or metal, the propeller blades has decals for modern Hoffman/Dowty ones and not the original wartime Rotol blades.

These issues should also be of help for other Spitfire IX painters as the errors are included in the Realair paintkit/original textures.
 
The Norwegian Spitfire IX pack has now been uploaded and should be available shortly, enjoy!

It now covers 22 Spitfires IX's flown by the Norwegian squadrons in the period 1942-52. A last minute addition is Spitfire IXe PL187 with clipped wings from 331 Sqn as it looked during the homecoming flight on May 22 1945.

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