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What with the yellow diamond?
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It's a gas detection diamond. Actually a sheet of impregnated paper stuck to the wing which was supposed to turn red on contact with gas, though it was reported that, when tested, many of them failed to work!
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If this is the "Sailor" Malan airplane, it is supposed to have this diamond in the left wing, or at least there are pictures like this.
There are some models (including mine My 1/72 scale planes 2nd part) that doesn't have this diamond.
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great work...great work.
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clean as always!!
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The yellow square was for testing the quality of the gasoline to make sure it didn't have water in it or other contaminants. They would pour a gas sample over the patch, supposedly you could see if it was bad.
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Sorry, but I made a small research and it seems that shawndymond is right, it's a gas (poison gas) and not gasoline detector. It was present only at the beginning of the war.
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Wonderfully designed and built kit up so far! So much care taken on the details. Simply outstanding work Ricardo.
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Thanks for the comments and the explanation about the yellow diamond
The lowered flaps hardly add to the Spitfire’s elegant shape. Anyway, as the work is there, I decided to assemble the flaps as the pictures show. |
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Quote:
(I'm not falling for all this gas detection patch BS!)
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