| The only thing I can offer, and I would wait for Wonwinglo before doing anything, is that the very early British based Spitfires also employed a similar colour scheme, as in the first Airfix 1/24th scale ones.
On the Spit I'm sure it did meet in the middle below the fuselage but I'll dig out my old instructions just to be 100%.
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“Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days" |