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Dear fellow Britmodellers, this is the new 1/72 Spitfire PR Mk.XI kit, presented at Moson Model Show in Hungary, at the end of April. Built from the box, painted with Mr.Hobby acrylics. Photos by Wolfgang Rabel. This kit is an all-new tooling and comes in various boxings with different marking options. I chose the "USAF" version because I didn't have a Spitfire with "stars and bars"! Markings are from the box, representing an aircraft from 14th Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Group, at Mount Farm airbase in 1944. Some PR Spitfires were painted in "PRU Blue". To represent this color shade I used Mr.Hobby H42 Grey Blue (which I found to be the best match). Exhaust stains were applied with my airbrush. The quality of surfaces and fit of parts is very good, the build was smooth and free of trouble. The only thing I wasn't happy with are the stencils, which come on a seperate sheet. The walkways are a bit heavy, inscriptions are oversized and fuzzy, so I replaced them with markings from an Eduard stencil sheet (designed for the Mk.IX). The camera lenses are represented as shallow depressions on the lower fuselage. I painted the lenses gloss black to simulate glass. Thanks you very much for your interest, best greetings from Vienna! Roman
