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    Spitfire IX sub-variations

    in Aircraft WWII

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    Okay, I knew of the IXc, and the IXe, and about clipped wings, and broad-chord rudders. But what visually differentiates the IXb from the IXc? Is it just a convenient name for an early conversion IXc? (Does that freightdog resin set for an early Mark IX=IXb?) "Johnnie" Johnson's first Spitfire IX was an IXb, correct?

    Spitfire Mk IX

    in Aircraft WWII

    Posted

    You'll shortly have another option.

    In about a month I'll be releasing injection moulded parts to modify a standard IXC to a late production IXC or E.

    The set will contain a broad cord fin (the pointy fin), straight piped exhausts, a better shaped propeller and E cannon blisters. You'll have to do minor surgery to cut off the rudder and sand down the existing cannon bulges (E wing only), but nothing too difficult, as the replacement parts will glue easily. The propeller and exhausts will be drop in replacements.

    The parts are designed for the 1:72 Airfix and Hasegawa IX kits, but I think they won't be too hard to adapt for other kits.

    Expected price will be about £3.25 per set.

    Stewart

    Phenomenal! Will it come with decals? I imagine not for that price.

    Current "best ofs" for Spitfires in 1/72?

    in Aircraft WWII

    Posted

    If you are objecting the a hunchback on the Tamiya (personally I can't stand the wing) then I suspect you are looking for most accurate - just saying "best" introduces other options, like fit.

    Quite right of you to bring this up, I should definitely clarify! I am indeed referring to out-of-the-box accuracy.

    Current "best ofs" for Spitfires in 1/72?

    in Aircraft WWII

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    I've seen, in my perambulations about the web, many a list of the best 1/72 kits for the various marks of Spitfire. Foolishly, I ignored one of these lists once and purchased three Tamiya Mark Vs, which look alarmingly hunchbacked, among other problems. They sit sullenly on my workbench, and I hear the bells of Notre Dame whenever I glance their way.

    So to avoid this, I thought I'd ask one of those tiresome "which is best" questions, but for all marks of the Spitfire, so I can print it out and memorize it, and maybe even keep it in my wallet, using the space formerly occupied by all of this money I have just sitting there*.

    So, what are the best kits in the various scales? I hasten to add, injection-molded kits, resin ones I know are often nicer, but I'm a simple man. I sort of assume the Airfix Spitfire I/Ia/II is the best for the Mark I/II family, but am I right? Who makes the best Vs? Sword? AZ? The ancient Airfix Vb? A Scale Canadian's blog suggested the Italeri Vb was one of the best of a kind of bad lot. Is the Airfix IX the best? Are the Hasegawa IX/VIIIs truly out of scale?

    *=I don't really have any money.

    Spitfire weathering

    in Aircraft WWII

    Posted

    Yes - It was still going in the late fifties - and we hated it !!. "Mechs" - Yes, "Techies" - Yes.

    Now try saying "erks" through a split lip !.

    I've no idea where it came from Edgar and don't really care but it was the most derogatory expression I ever hear in the Service.

    No offence meant - just a slight rise in blood pressure.

    Dennis W Robinson

    Interesting; I have a memoir by one of 11 Squadron's ground crewman, and it's entitled "An 'Erksome War". I wonder if it was always considered derogatory, or if it gradually came to be considered as such.

    Cyber Hobby Sea Vixen - how good is it?

    in Aircraft Cold War

    Posted

    I'm building one right now in a group with friends. I understand it has a number of accuracy issues, which I can't speak to, aside from the utterly inexplicable decision to include Red Tops, which the FAW.1 didn't carry. However, as far as buildability goes, the kit is an absolute delight. Everything fits, and I love how all the parts connect. That may be cold comfort to many, however.

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