This is a repaint for the Flight Replicas Spitfire Mk.V as EP210, one of 143 Spitfire VBs supplied to the Soviet Union in early 1943.
There are few reliable resources for exactly how they were marked, just grainy black & white photos that often show only one side. Some show roundels etc. quite crudely painted out - Peter Teichman's restored Mk.IXE is a fairly extreme example.
I opted to have the RAF markings overpainted with nearly-but-not-quite-matching colours the Russians might have had lying around in 1943. The yellow arrow along the fuselage is only referenced in a few modellers' guides; it's quite unusual and I liked it, so it stayed.
The emblem on the tail denotes an elite Guards unit and came from Wikipedia via a little toning down. The fuselage codes started out in the 'Bahnschrift Condensed' Windows font but ended up as something else entirely.
The relatively clean and lightweight Spitfire was not really at home in a brutal low-level war with primitive servicing and maintenance facilities. To make matters worse these Spitfires were rather old and battle-weary after their RAF service.
INSTALLATION
Unzip the download, place the 'FJ_SpitfireV_EP210' folder in your 'Community' folder and you should be good to go. Repaint by Steve Mercer based on the paintkit and textures by Flight Replicas.