Spitfire- Real or Model?

[pilatus]

I was browsing through flickr when i saw this pic of Spitfire 161 but it looks like its a model, and the props were photoshopped to give the illusion of turning blades? what do you guys think.nice pic if its real or not!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/basstubert/215827805/

[California Tanker]

I think it's a real one. Difficult to tell, though, the whole scene is too 'clean.'

NTM

[Lordinajamjar]

I was browsing through flickr when i saw this pic of Spitfire 161 but it looks like its a model, and the props were photoshopped to give the illusion of turning blades? what do you guys think.nice pic if its real or not!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/basstubert/215827805/

Go with your gut feel.

It's a model, no buts about it.

[hptmurphy]

No I'll go with 'real' from a modelers perspective

[Turkey]

it is a difficult one alright, I am almost convinced its real, except for no clag around the exhausts, but even that is not conclusive.

[Joshua]

I'm going with my rather large gut and saying its a model as its too perfect.

Poll added for fun.

(If you start the slideshow and pause on that picture you get a bigger-better view.)

I have e mailed the photographer for the answer :wink:

[Turkey]

I am coming down on the side of ''real'' taken just after its conversion to a 2 seater, where it would be ex-works.
But , the best bet might be to ask the expert in this field, Tony Kearns.

[Joshua]

Just googled Spitfire 161 and got THIS & THIS

begins to regret earlier post...


and then again HERE

[Tony Kearns]

Looks real to me, but slightly different to how it was finished in Air Corps service. absence of exhaust stains possibly due to just coming out of the hangar. I noticed how clean they were when it was in the hangar at Baldonnel in 2006. You don't mess with Mick Whelan!
As I am computer illeterate I could not download it to the desktop to magnify the image and have a better look.
Tony K

[Turkey]

Doh! the picture was taken on october 15 2005, I am now 100% prepared to be called an idio--sorry say it's real.

[Connaught Stranger]

Undecided,:confused: could very well be the real deal.

here is a colour shot of the real deal.


http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untit...v_id=&next_id=


http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untit...ext_id=1042227

Connaught Stranger

[hedgehog]

I know a guy who used to fly it for its owner (s)

[johnny no stars]

there are people standing out of the frame of the shot, surely their shaddows should have given it away? (first thing I noticed when I saw it, couldn't look earlier thank you DIT from blocking it)

[Goose]

Its real. If its the one I'm thinking of I saw it fly a few years ago. Preformed in the Newtownards air show in 2005. Was a two seater done in IAC markings. Two lovely Tricolours under the wings. As fair as I know it was sold and changed to Netherlands colours and I possibly remember hearing it might have been involved in a crash after, but I could be mistaken. There is another thread somewhere here about it.
Of course I could be completely wrong and this is one of the original IAC aircraft.
Also the shadows should have given it away as real.

[California Tanker]

Also the shadows should have given it away as real.

You can buy model people, you know.

Actually, when considering the 'model' option, I even wondered if someone didn't have a sense of humour and that the three shadows were really shadows created by cutouts of the three silhouettes of the Top Gear presenters which show up in the title sequence. After checking the title sequence, I decided that no, they weren't.

NTM