Spit IX plans WITH sections

[LargeBear]

Hi all,

I have many plans of Spit IX, but none with accurate fuselage and wing sections!

If someone has a plan of a Spit IX with sections, it would be a big help for me.

Cheers,

[Buelliful]

Hi all,

I have many plans of Spit IX, but none with accurate fuselage and wing sections!

If someone has a plan of a Spit IX with sections, it would be a big help for me.

Cheers,

I don't have any myself but you can buy stuff from the Spitfire restoration website here

http://www.spitfirerestoration.com/pages/posters.html

there are some walkarounds on here

http://aircraftwalkaround.hobbyvista.com/spitfire/spitfire.htm

http://ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2001/12/stuff_eng_detail_spitfire_ix_04.htm
that one is just the cockpit area though.

I hope that is of some use,:salute:

Alan.

[LargeBear]

Thanks for the help, but I would need more precise sections.

In fact, it's very strange that plans with sections about the Spit IX are so hard to find!

[new atreides]

You can try at www.airwar.ru

[LargeBear]

Thanks, already tried. Unfortunately, the Spit plans with sections are rather bad there.

[Skyraider3D]

Thanks for the help, but I would need more precise sections.How can you get more precise than the factory drawings Buelliful provided a link to? :rolleyes:

[LargeBear]

The very crude drawing on this site....

http://www.spitfirerestoration.com/pages/posters.html

...is more an "arrangment" drawing than a "factory" drawing.

In fact, it looks like some of the ugly Russian Spit plans I already have.

[Skyraider3D]

Looks like you missed the drawing search on the main site! :)
Click the drawing search link on the main page and type something like...
http://www.spitfirerestoration.com/data/previewtiffs/000000ML.gif

I actually have the full set of drawings (via http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Spitfire-Blueprint-s-x3-000-Mk-s-I-II-V-VII-XIX_W0QQitemZ270033379740QQihZ017QQcategoryZ112473 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) but don't really have the time to go through all of them as there are 3,000 of them.
If you find a drawing on that site you like a better copy of, e-mail me the drawing number and I'll send you the full-res TIF.

[Buelliful]

Looks like you missed the drawing search on the main site! :)
Click the drawing search link on the main page and type something like...
http://www.spitfirerestoration.com/data/previewtiffs/000000ML.gif


Erm, yeah that's the bit I MEANT to link to :p Thanks Ronnie!

If the drawing isn't on there it doesn't exist!

Cheers,

Alan.

[Skyraider3D]

Erm, yeah that's the bit I MEANT to link toIt actually doesn't let you link directly to the drawing search bit, hence the confusion :)

[LargeBear]

Ah, ok Skyraider, that's real, big and heavy factory drawings!!! I missed the link ;-)

In fact, I wouldn't need such detailed drawings, but just 8-20 good fuselage sections, nicely drawn like on a Bentley plan and surprisingly, for an aircraft as famous as the Spit IX, I can find such a plan (the SAM plans for instance look nice, but no sections).

[Skyraider3D]

Bentley you say? You can order them straight from him at very decent prices :)
http://www.albentley-drawings.com/spitfire.htm
...or use a magnifying glass ;)
Note they aren't fully finished yet, but all the important detail is there.

[kiwi123]

Still it ain't easy. Built my spit from a combination of bentley's and Sams, a lot doesn't match up.

[Skyraider3D]

Bentley often uses factory drawings as a basis though... I'd trust him before SAMI :)

[LargeBear]

I already knew these Bentley drawings, but I was rather worry about the mixing of all the marks: are the profils separated on the Bentley Spit plans that he sells? Because like this, it looks a little bit like a mess!

[kiwi123]

it is a bit of a mess like this, I just scanned them, took them into photoshop and removed the lines i didn't want. You can always mail him and ask if he could just print the Mk.IX bit.