This new sheet from Iliad Designs covers four fighters that were to participate in Operation Rutter. Operation Rutter was the initial British/Canadian plan to invade the French town of Dieppe. However, the Germans got wind of it and bombed the assembled forces. Not only that, but a spell of bad weather resulted in the operation being cancelled. Renamed Operation Olympic, the assault occurred a month later, though none of the planes had the special markings applied for Rutter.

All the options are in the European scheme. Three of these are Spitfire Vb aircraft while a fourth is a Hurricane II. The first option is340 Squadron. Next is a 350 (Belgian) Squadron plane. Both of these have external armor on the windscreen. They also have a Rotol prop.

The third plane with 302 Squadron has internal windscreen armor and a knock out panel in the canopy. This aircraft has a deHavilland prop.

Fourth is a Hurribomber with 174 (Mauritius) Squadron. This aircraft has an exhaust anti-glare shield. All of the options have the special banding and a white spinner.

All of the white stripes will need to be painted on and there are instructions on just how to do that. All the aircraft also had a pair of white stripes on the tailplanes.

The sheet is superbly printed with  sufficient insignia to do all four options.

June 2025

Copyright ModelingMadness.com. All rights reserved. No reproduction in part or in whole without express permission from the editor. 

Thanks to www.iliad-design.com for the review sheet. You can get yours direct from this link.

If you would like your product reviewed fairly and fairly quickly, please contact the editor or see other details in the Note to Contributors.