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Hello guys, I finished this plane two days ago. It was a trouble free build, with the only sizable gap being located just in front on the windscreen. Speaking of windscreens, it was too big, and had to be trimmed and sanded down for it to fit into the canopy opening.

Hello guys, My newest kit has finally arrived after four days of waiting. I decided to buy this kit because I previously had bought the Airfix 72nd Ju 87B-1, and painted it as a Battle of France aircraft. This one will be the same. I'll be building this one as an out of the box aircraft. I'll upload more photos later today.

Hi all and this is my latest (and longest) finish, Italeri's 1/72 Spitfire Mk. Vb. Started about 3 years ago, finally finished this week for the KUTA group build. Shortish build thread is here. The kit was a struggle for me and that's shown in the final finish - the wingtip parts fit was very iffy, as was the nose. The prop blades are far too skinny and the raised detail for the wing .303s is way too heavy. The aftermarket wing roundels are too big (or the wing is too narrow) as they shouldn't overlap the ailerons. My efforts at oil fading were very iffy. I could go on but it's a hobby after all! 😆 Aftermarket decals (which were lovely) are for Wing Cdr Brendan 'Paddy' FInucane of 154 Squadron, July 1942 just before he was KIA following a fighter sweep. Thanks for looking and happy modelling. Dermot Italeri_1_72_Spitfire_Mk5b_Finished (1) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr Italeri_1_72_Spitfire_Mk5b_Finished (8) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr Italeri_1_72_Spitfire_Mk5b_Finished (2) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr Italeri_1_72_Spitfire_Mk5b_Finished (3) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr Italeri_1_72_Spitfire_Mk5b_Finished (4) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr Italeri_1_72_Spitfire_Mk5b_Finished (6) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr

Hi folks! Been a bit since my last post, recently moved house and this is my first completion after the move. The Eduard Mk.V is a fun build with a few tweaks from the VIII/IX/XVI series. I imagine these changes are also in the Mk.I but this is my first of the earlier mark kits. Spitfire Mk.Vc BR323 Sgt George "Screwball" Beurling 249 Sqn, Ta Kali airbase, Malta July 1942 BarracudaCast seat Ultracast cockpit door Brassin wheels AK Real Colors paints Decals from spares box Anyway, on to the pics! Thanks for looking!

G'day All First one done for the year. Eduard's lovely Spitfire Mk1 which was a joy to build. This was one of the two kits contained in "The Few" dual boxing. All that was missing was the electric undercarriage selector, which would have also allowed later Mk1As to also be built. As it is OOB you are limited to building only Spitfires with the hand undercarriage pump. The undercarriage sockets were also a little over-engineered. The modeller has to be very precise with their fitment, otherwise the sit of the model could be affected. I chose to use a scheme from the supurb Fundekals "Early War Spitfires, Part 2" as I like the ever evolving markings and schemes from the Phoney War period. Paint was from Mission Models, and performed reasonably well, although I would like to perfect using this a bit more. This was a buddy build with @Calum who has also posted his build here. I think I need to replace the elastic thread used for the antenna as its bending the aerial mast back.🤔 A fuller breakdown of the build and more pics contained at my blog in my signature. Thanks for looking Bruce

Finished my what if/Anime Spitfire Mk.IX in 1:48 from Revell/Hasegawa. It was fun to make another Spitfire (this is my fifth one). I will try to look for some more, if my German aircraft interest doesn't sabotage my search. I used decals from two Xtradecals decal sheets for the letters. Insignia came from the Airfix 48th Spitfire Mk.I and also from an Xtradecal wing roundels sheet.

One of the things that got me back into scale modelling after some years of not building anything was the anime Strike Witches. In fact, I liked the anime so much that I set on a mission to find, buy, and build the aircraft the real pilots used (from which the Strike Witches girls were based from). The story so far: In the year 1939, an alien race know as the Neuroi invaded Europe, conquering the contienent in a matter on months. The only mass of land these invaders weren't able to conquer was Britannia, protected from the land Neuroi by the Britannian channel. Fast forward to 1944, the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, an elite squadron formed by the top aces of different air forces of the world, began fighting back the Neuroi with their Striker Units, aircraft-like machines which are attached to their legs and allow the girls to take the fight back to the Neuroi. The pilots of the 501st JFW are Mina Dietlinde Wilcke, Mio Sakamoto, Gertrud Barkhorn, Erica Hartmann, Francesca Lucchini, Charlotte E. Yeager, Lynette Bishop, Yoshika Miyafuji, Eila Imatar Juutilainen, Sanya V. Litvyak and Shizuka Hattori. I have built all the aircraft from the real pilots, however, the only one which didn't have a real ace was Lynette Bishop. She uses an Ultramarine Spitfire Mk.IX and, in the second season, a Spitfire Mk.22. I've already built the Spitfire 22, so I thought on building the Mk.IX, used by Lynette in the first season. The chose kit is the Revell/Hasegawa Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX/XVI in 1:48. I decided to start the kit by building the most tedious part of any WW2 propeller plane, the propeller. I painted the blades in matt black and the nose cone in Sky. I then masked the upper part of the nose cone and painted the lower half of it in red. Cockpit: Fuselage halves and cockpit: Cockpit glued to the fuselage: Wings. Options are provided for extended or clipped wingtips for either the Mk.IX or XVI. The same goes for the rudder. And here's where I'm now. Painting will start as soon as I come back home.

“I found the engineer officer and together we had a look at her, gleaming and bright in a new spring coat of camouflage paint. Later I took her up for a few aerobatics to get the feel of her, for this was the first time I had flown a Mk IX. She seemed very fast, the engine was sweet and she responded to the controls as only a thoroughbred can. I decided that she should be mine, and I never had occasion to regret that choice.' Wing Commander James Edgar ‘Johnnie’ Johnson “Wing Leader” Here is my interpretation of ‘Johnnie’ Johnson’s EN398 whilst he commanded the Kenley Wing in 1943. The build thread is here: Those who are offended by the presence of Green maple leaves on Spitfires should look away at this point…..⚠️ 😉 I had fully intended to use red maple leaves on the model, but nostalgia about the old Airfix Mk IX and some additional thoughts and comments during the build led me to go with green. If it bugs me later I can always apply red over the top. I’ve also taken a bit of artistic licence with a Wing Commander’s pennant on the port side - this inspired by the Spitfire site’s interpretation http://spitfiresite.com/2010/04/johnnie-johnsons-spitfire-revisited.html Kit is the Eduard 1/48 Spitfire F MkIX (Early) weekend edition. Aftermarket parts are Eduard seat harnesses, Montex canopy masks and decals by Victory Productions (Aces of Empire sheet). Paints throughout are Vallejo model air. Anyway, photos are below; I’ve kept it fairly clean as it’s Greycap Leader’s mount after all! Steve

So way back in 1973 when i was but 10 years old, this kit was the best Spitfire kit i was aware of, miles more accurate (as far as i knew) than the Airfix one, which had been around for ages at that time. The Matchbox Spit was soooooo good to me. So its no wonder i have returned to this particular kit for the GB. I have rustled up some reference material (the only references young Greg had) in the shape of the Commando comic "Send for Spitfires", which was first published in the same month and year i was born (1963)! TFL Cheers Greg

Quick little four-evening build of a Tamiya Spitfire Mk.I 1/72 scale kit that I received in a club gift exchange. I decided to build it as an early production Mk.Ia after scrounging through my spare decal bin. IMG_4830 by Evan Bailly, on Flickr IMG_4854 by Evan Bailly, on Flickr Spitfire Mk.Ia Serial K9099 wasn’t even two months old when she was photographed already looking well worn in a lineup of other No.65 “East India” Squadron machines in May of 1939, wearing the code FZ-O. Apparently she had an early stroke of bad luck as apparently she had her oil cooler fairing and pitot tube replaced with black-painted parts and a yet un-repainted port forward wing root fillet. K9099 ended her existence in another stroke of bad luck when, recoded YT-O, she was shot down by a Bf. 109 over Bazinghen, Pas-de-Calais with the loss of her pilot, Sgt Michael Keymer, on August 22nd 1940. IMG_4849 by Evan Bailly, on Flickr IMG_4852 by Evan Bailly, on Flickr IMG_4847 by Evan Bailly, on Flickr IMG_4839 by Evan Bailly, on Flickr IMG_4853 by Evan Bailly, on Flickr The model was built mostly out of the box with an added Eduard seat harness and brake lines from fine wire. I also replaced the later style gunsight with the early ring style one, and scratch built the idiosyncratic early style pitot tube and antenna aerial. Prewar markings were put together with a mix of spare decals from the bin. Paints were mostly Vallejo acrylics.

Second build for 2022 will be Wing commander Johnnie Johnson’s Spitfire IXc EN398 whilst commanding the Kenley wing. I think this is one of the first Spitfire schemes I ever built from the old Airfix 1/72 Mk IX. This is a very famous scheme, but there’s always been debate about the colour of the maple leaf (I’m going red, although the old Airfix one was green) and there’s some comment about whether a Wing Commanders pennant was carried on the port side - I’m tempted. The Spit was originally flown by a 402 Sqn RCAF pilot - F/O Ian Keltie- and this scheme is included in the new Airfix 1/24 Spitfire. I’m using a weekend edition of the Eduard Spitfire MkIXc with decals from the Victory productions ‘Aces of the Empire’ sheet. The only other extra ‘so far’ will be PE seatbelts. This site has been very useful in helping me formulate what my version of EN398 should look like in terms of bulges and bumps http://spitfiresite.com/2010/04/johnnie-johnsons-spitfire-revisited.html Steve

https://uk.airfix.com/products/supermarine-spitfire-mkxii-a05117a https://uk.airfix.com/products/supermarine-spitfire-mkxviii-a05140 V.P.

I came across this on the IWM YouTube channel and thought I'd share it here for anyone looking for some reference on the Spitfire Mk.I cockpit. Apologies if this has already been posted or if I have put this thread in the wrong place. Hope you enjoy. https://youtu.be/3hzI81kEUFo

Hi all, I have made the leap to diversify from my usual 1/35 armour builds to try a ww2 plane kit. If I only ever build 1 plane kit, I want to do a big one, and something less common......so I ordered Trumpeter's 1/24 Spitfire Mk V float plane for myself for Xmas. I have found some amazing references and history (which led me to buy the kit), but after reading some reviews of the kit one of the biggest flaws is the seat. After some browsing it seems that finding an "in stock" replacement isn't that easy. I guess with technology someone may 3d print one (beyond me) ?? Does anyone know of a replacement seat?

After my 35 years absence from modelling, a second aircraft has landed on the BoB shelf to join the fabric wing Hurricane L1592 (5 weeks ago actually, I find the modelling more compelling than the photography of same!). It's Al Deere in P9398, the Spitfire in which he had the famous 'head on' collision with Oberfeldwebel Johann Illner with both surviving the incident. A common build, sorry guys but it is a nice one for the BoB shelf. Build is OoB except for decals. Questionable Print Scale (so no starboard view) and Tech Mod technical stencils which are excellent. I found the kit lovely in areas and annoying in others. The next AF Spit from this molding will have the raised, upper wing, fixings for the .303 MG access panels instantly cut off and a slight recess drilled! I found the dihedral an issue and it had to be adapted to give the 6 degrees which is as important to the beauty of the aircraft as are it's elliptical wing surfaces. The huge WW1 trenches in front of the ailerons and flaps were filled and scribed as well as possible with my limited but growing experience. The panels lines are huge on this kit and in future I might fill and scribe them if I build again. A Tamiya 1:72 is near completion and I would rate them equally I think? (I just bought another for stash). Also a KP Mk1b is under construction. Me no like this much 🥴 (comments then when this is posted for viewing). After an email conversation with Eduard about tiny 1:44 scale resin Hurricane wheels for their lovely Hurristory 1:72 (you know the ones!), a Mk1 from them is on the way but no time scale. It is coming and it should be a delight when it lands. The Pilot is from the Hurricane kit to replace the Orc that came with the kit (see my Avatar). A bit of blue paper towel and he is ready for the 'off' in the sunny summer that 1940 provided. Big thanks to all you guys, present & lost to us, for the information provided in helping me with this build👍👌 Regards, Lindsey

I wasn't really planning on doing yet another Eduard Spitfire VIII so soon however early this year I obtained a new book "Spitfire Pilot" written by John Spence. For those who know a bit about RAAF fighter pilots, they will recognise the name straight away. John is the son of Lou Spence one of the senior pilots in the RAAF in WW2 and the Wing Commander leading 77 Squadron in Korea where he was killed in action. In addition to reading some 1st hand accounts of Lou's experiences in WW2, the book also contained some previously unpublished photos which initiated this build. In the Eduard Aussie 8 book there is reference to multiple experiments in the RAAF Spitfire units to optimise them for their roles in the Pacific. This included upgunning to 4 cannon (i.e. Caldwell's aircraft) or 2 cannon and 2 0.5 cals (Gibbes), adding bomb racks, trying out different fuel mixtures (Trimble) to increase range and clipping the wings to increase roll rate(Gibbes and Spence). The book Spitfire Pilot contains a photo of Rima III while it was modified with the clipped wings. With this photo confirming an airframe modified with the clipped wings, there was enough information to represent this configuration. There are pictures of Rima III in the Eduard book and also decals and painting instructions in the Aussie 8 boxing. The plane is in the repaint scheme of Foliage Green over Sky Blue with White leading edges. The spinner is red as was the preference of Spence for most of his planes. The Eduard kit was assembled pretty much out of box - the wheels were replaced with treaded Barracuda resin whels, a Falcon vac canopy was added and the clipped wingtips from the kit parts was used (Note the actual wingtips were locally made wooden ones which were slightly more squarer than the official ones but I don't think its worth trying to modify the kit ones). A few extra notes about modelling this air frame - In John Spence's book, there are 2 photos of this plane labelled as Rima II, Lou's Spitfire Vc. One of our club members pointed out this was incorrect as the photo clearly shows a 4 bladed prop and the cockpit/nose photo shows the script Rima III not Rima II which was painted in a different format. The Eduard decals and colour scheme show The codes QY V in stencil style based on a close up of the "V" in one photo but the picture in Spitfire Pilot shows the Q with no stencilling and the pictures of the full plane in both references also show no evidence of stencilling (i.e. gaps in the letters) so it appears the codes were repainted (filled in?) at some stage. I used the codes from a DK decals sheet for Rima II to complete the kit but the rest of the decals are Eduard from the Aussie 8 sheet. Note there are no technical stencils on the airframe other than the propeller blades due to the full repaint. One final point, the codes read QY V on the starboard fuselage rather than V QY as in the Eduard instructions. This is an easy to understand mistake as there were no previous known photos of the starboard side of Rima III and 452 Squadron had planes painted with codes in both formats. Cheers Michael

To see and hear the engine click the link below photos. Video of "engine startup" and "test run". Enjoy!

Hi all i want build a Spitfire 1/48 Fr Mk.18 was in service in Far East (X48127 Extradecals), i want start from Academy Spitfire Mk.14 with correction of Daco, i read there some modifacation... on the wing? it's Correct? Please Help Me... Thank You Lewis

Hi guys, Am getting close to decaling on 1:72 P9386 QV-K. Brian Lanes yellow spinnered Spitfire. A common build and a nice one for the BoB shelf. Looking around at other builds, they show technical stenciling on underside. Eduard's 1:48 kit instructions state that "no stenciling is seen on the bottom surfaces". I am now wondering should I run with underside stencils or not? 🧐 Any thoughts or further info out there. I have not managed to find any other reference than Eduard's regarding the lack of bottom surface stencils. Thanks in advance, Lindsey

Hi Folks! I'm glad to share with you this fantastic kit. A lot have been said about the new Tamiya Spitfire Mk.I... and I had to agree with all the positive critiques about the new tool. It almost build by itself! Not kidding! A complete delicatessen to my amateur modeller's taste!! In this case, I didn't use Tamiya's decals for the letters as I got ones from an Eduard kit for the Spit flew by the ace A. "Sailor" Malan, as 74th Sq. Leader, during Battle of Britain. Hope you like my approach to this legendary and beautiful aircraft. Happy modelling! Cris.

Hobby 2000 has just re-released the Revell 1/32 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I/V In box review: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-32-supermarine-spitfire-iia-hobby-2000/ - ref. 32001 - Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Ia Sources: https://www.armahobby.pl/h2k32001-supermarine-spitfire-ia-ex-revel-cartograf-pmask-zywica.html https://ksmodel.pl/sklep/szczegoly/hobby-2000-32001-supermarine-spitfire-ia-limited-edition-1-32-24566/ - ref. 32002 - Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IIa Sources: https://www.armahobby.pl/h2k32002-supermarine-spitfire-iia-w-rotol-propeller.html https://ksmodel.pl/sklep/szczegoly/hobby-2000-32002-supermarine-spitfire-iia-w-rotol-propeller-limited-edition-1-32-24567/ - ref. 32003 - Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Va Sources: https://www.armahobby.pl/h2k32003-supermarine-spitfire-va.html https://ksmodel.pl/sklep/szczegoly/hobby-2000-32003-supermarine-spitfire-va-limited-edition-1-32-24568/ V.P.

Hi everyone! Let me present my new model. This time it’s Supermarine Spitfire, one of my favourites. There’s no need to specify the facts about the prototype because everyone knows this plane inside out and it’s one of the most frequently assembled models. However, I should point out that I wanted to show the qualities which were specific for early Spitfires. Those were the fighting machines whose creators had no idea about real combat conditions. They were equipped by a streamlined flat canopy that didn’t provide 360-deg vision or have any armoured windscreen panel (when you come to think of it, the plane had no armoured protection neither for life-critical units nor for a pilot). Moreover, the early models were built up with an old-school two-bladed rotor and some throwbacks such as an antispin parachute, and there wasn’t any weapon heating. It rendered the fighter useless on apparent combat heights of German bombers because frozen machine-guns didn’t work there. In other words, the early Spitfires were like Englishmen with enormous potential but poorly aware of what was waiting for them in the heat of the coming major war. I’ve chosen Airfix A02010 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I/Mk.IIa set for assembling. The set makes a good impression, the details are well-fitted, but still there are certain drawbacks in canopy-fuselage attaching and wing-fuselage blending. The model is quite accurate, so it hasn’t raised a lot of my criticism. The only thing is that the upper part of cowl panel has square-flat shape closer to the Mk.V rather than Mk.I. The panel lining is pretty true-to-fact although a bit simplified and needs improvement. The model features the 9th manufactured prototype of Spitfire K9795 from the 19th Royal Air Force squadron in Duxford as in October of 1938. Thanks for looking!

I'm working on a triple Spitfire build in 1/48, using a new issue Airfix Vb, a Special Hobby Vc, a Classic Airframes Vc (same as the Spec. Hobby) and they will all be Malta birds. The Spec. Hobby fuselages need to be stretched, tail canted down, and the wings moved forward using info and suggestions kindly provided by Troy Smith (thanks again). I'm using the Airfix Fuselage as a guide, as it matches the drawings I have nicely ... it's interesting how many of the available Spit's come up with a different length! With the stretch done, my attention turns to the cockpit. The Spec. Hobby kit has a nice cockpit with a few updates needed, The seats are accurate, but the cushion is to long, and needs to be shortened in order to use the nice photo etch Sutton harness provided. The Airfix seat in indistinct and too narrow, so I'll be using an Ultracast seat there. (Dark grey is Spec. Hobby, seat on left not modified yet, also frames drilled out on all) The Airfix panel has a compass, which the Spec. Hobby missed, so I had to make my own. I'll replace the Airfix one also as mine will be easier to paint and decal, compass being separate. The other thing I looked at right away was the weird (IMHO) way Airfix attached the landing gear. I cemented the legs together, then drilled a .020" hole down the center, about half way. I cut the leg back apart just above the upper flange and cemented in a .020" brass pin into the lower section. Fit the leg back together, and solidly cemented the trunion into position. Now the gear can be attached solidly later and fine adjustments made if required bending the pin. It's the first time I've tried a triple build, hopefully it won't take 3 times as long!

I was aware of the fact that the older Tamiya 1/48 Spitfire Mk 1'sand Mk V's were short, and had the wings to far aft, but I thought, just for fun, to compare all the 1/48 Spit's I had. I was trying to decide how much of a splice to add to the older kits, in order to build them. I was surprised to find that the new Tamiya Mk 1,new Airfix Mk V, and new Eduard's Mk V all had different fuselage lengths. Now I'm really confused which is closest. I was planning to add a splice on the older kits just aft of the refueling cap, and reprofiling the wing fairing and trailing edge, as was shown on this site.

Hi All! My friend made a gift for me. Spitfire Mk. IX ICM 1/48 of the very first casts. But without decals I decided to create a soviet post-war Spitfire Native Russian decals nearby United Kingdom delivered to the USSR in 1944-45 about 1300 Spitfires- 9 (and 16) These aircraft were highly rated by the Russians, but were used minimally during the war These aircraft were apparently kept in case of a new war, at least until the Korean War and the MiG-15. I think so I chose a typical post-war Ла-11 and Як-9 paint job, completely gray I have no confirmation of such coloring. This is my guess. I think this is quite probable. In 1948-1950 We have little information about the post-war slave in the USSR of captured and Lend-Lease aircraft. Usually information is limited to individual photos I only added bumps from the wheels on the top of the wing Paint GUNZE Enjoy watching!