So, resigning to reality, I instead got some beautiful thunderstorm pictures, put them on a screen and set up pipe cleaner Spitfire in front.
Thanks and credit for the beautiful thunderstorm pictures used as background here (and in the alternative versions below) go to WKIDESIGN who uploaded the images for free use to pixabay.com.
Here are some alternative versions taken with different lighting and camera settings. Since several more shots I took with various backgrounds and setups for the figure turned out nicely there will be a couple more Spitfire in a thunderstorm pictures.