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Eduard Spitfire Mk. XVI Photo Etch Detail Sets for Eduard Kit 1:72 Eduard Eduard's new range of Spitfires has just expanded to include the Mk.XVI. In the usual Eduard style, a range of extra goodies have also been released to enable detail conscious modellers to jazz their kits up a bit. So far we've received a couple of sets of photo etched brass details as well as a pair of pre-cut paint masks for both bubbletop and high back variants. Spitfire Mk. XVI 1:72 Eduard This set is designed to accompany the Profipack edition of the kit as it omits the pre-painted parts such as the instrument panel and harnesses. On the single fret, you get a complete replacement seat, together with the armoured plate and fixing bracket, as well as throttle controls, rudder pedals and various small items such as pipework for the oxygen bottles. The rest of the airframe benefits from a range up upgrades too, including parts for the radiator, the rudder and the landing gear. The replacement main landing gear doors look great, but will need to be shaped carefully in order to capture the look of the real thing accurately. Parts have also been included for the bombs and bomb shackles. Spitfire Mk. XVI Landing Flaps 1:72 Eduard Although they look complex, Eduard's photo etched landing flaps are usually quite straightforward to assemble and fit. You will need to cut away some of the plastic from the kit's wings in order to use the flaps, but the relevant parts are clearly marked in the instruction sheet. The flaps themselves are constructed from relatively few components, with most of the work involving some clever folds rather than gluing hundred of tiny parts together. These flaps won't be for everyone, but those that persevere will be rewarded with an extra level of detail beyond that achievable with plastic alone. Spitfire Mk. XVI Highback and Bubbletop Pre-cut Masks 1:72 Eduard Last but not least are these sets of pre-cut paint masks. Masks are provided for both highback and bubbletop canopies but not the wheels, the hubs and tyres of which are separately moulded anyway. As usual, they don't add any detail, but are a nice little time saver. Conclusion Just like its 1:48 scale brother, Eduard's new 1:72 scale kit is the best kit of the Mk. XIV available. The ready supply of extra details and accessories direct from the manufacturer mean that the modeller can build the kit with as much or as little extra detail as he or she wants. The quality of parts and standard of manufacture is up to Eduard's usual excellent standards too. Recommended. Review samples courtesy of

Eduard Spitfire F Mk. IX Photo Etch Detail Set for Eduard Kit 1:72 Eduard Over the past few years, Eduard have become very good at supporting their new injection moulded plastic kits with an instant supply of aftermarket items – particularly so with the addition of their new Brassin range of resin accessories. Their new 1:72 scale Spitfires (Mk. VIII, Mk. IX and Mk. XVI) are no exception to this trend, and now we've got some photo etched details to go with the new F Mk.IX kit. This set is designed to accompany the Profipack edition of the kit as it includes a fair selection of parts but omits pre-painted goodies such as the instrument panel and harnesses from the small fret included with that kit. On the single fret, you get a complete replacement seat, together with the armoured plate and fixing bracket, as well as throttle controls, rudder pedals and various small items such as pipework for the oxygen bottles. The rest of the airframe benefits from a smattering of parts too, including parts for the radiator, the rudder and the landing gear. The replacement main landing gear doors look great, but will need to be shaped carefully in order to capture the look of the real thing accurately. Conclusion Eduard's new 1:72 scale kit is the best kit of the Mk. IX available. The ready supply of extra details and accessories direct from the manufacturer mean that the modeller can build the kit with as much or as little extra detail as he or she wants – the sky really is the limit. The quality of parts and standard of manufacture is up to Eduard's usual standards too. Recommended. Review samples courtesy of

Here we are - this is a fun build I started to have a go at some weathering on. My Lightning wasn't going well at the time, so I decided to do something simple and fun, and get something finished. I chose a spitfire, and was delighted that a beer keg carrying spitfire was available. Now - I know Spitfires are a VERY popular subject, and that I have a number of errors here.Sorry about that for the major enthusiasts, feel free to point out inaccuracies, I don't mind, but even so I am quite happy with this model. I did a little bit of weathering using Flory washes, and a small amount of humbrol aluminum to represent paint chips. Overall, pretty happy with the result. It's the Italeri Beer Truck Spitfire, which I believe is a rebox of a Hasegawa mould. Painted with Hataka paints, except for black, white and yellow which were Vallejo. Nothing too fancy - I used aftermarket wheels because the kit ones really didn't look right to me, otherwise strictly out of the box. I masked and painted the invasion stripes rather than attempting to use the kit decals. Build thread here: Piccies:

Well at last I've completed the build. Been a graft at times and my first attempt at this scale. It hasn't turned out too bad in the end. On the whole I'm happy and have enjoyed the build. A few imperfections in the paintwork, dirt, dust and grime etc. but lets just call that natural weathering. Would I build another one? Most definately, but I'd miss out the engine and motor. I aim to add to this over time...namely a DC Trolly Acc and some mechanics. Overdid the gun port weathering a little Panel lining is not something I'm very good at so didn't want to risk it. And the engine runs!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for looking.

Stencil Decals for Spitfire Mk.XVI 1:72 Eduard This sheet sees Eduard continue their line of stencil decals with a set for their superb new Spitfire Mk.XIV kit – available now as a dual combo Profipack edition. This is, nevertheless, a generic set which should be suitable for all Mk.XVIs. The sheet is very comprehensive as you would expect, and includes a full set of stencils for the airframe. The sheet is actually the same as that provided in the aforementioned Profipack kit, so you won't need to buy it if you already have that particular version (good bit of Britmodeller consumer advice there) Conclusion As with their other recent sheets, these decals appear to have been printed in the Czech Republic by Eduard themselves. The sheet is well printed and details are crisp and clear. If you have one of Eduard's new Spitfire XVIs and you have the patience to apply all of these stencils, then this sheet will provide you with a great finishing touch. Review sample courtesy of

Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIV F(R) SG-57 ex RAF RM921. Pictures at Spitfire Memorial Museum at Florennes AB, thanks to Corsaircop.

A friend is using the Pavla set to convert a 1/48 Tamiya Spitfire I to a PR 1C. The supplied canopy doesn't fit, despite trimming, can any-one suggest one that would fit? Thanks in advance.

Hello, I thought I would share some pictures of what is really my first scale model build in about 18 years or so. Just for fun, I bought the Italeri beer truck Spitfire kit. It's quite a nice kit in my opinion - fit of parts is good, not needing too much filler or hours and hours of sanding. I understand it's from Hasegawa moulds. This being my first build in a long time, it is strictly OOB, because I want to finish something in fairly short order, to a decent standard, trying some techniques I've read about, and then progress. So here we go. I started by brush painting the cockpit using Ammo of Mig acrylics. I am amazed at the quality and availability of different acrylics these days. Clearly using a primer is essential for these. I used some Ammo of Mig wash to add some interest, and built up the cockpit interior.

Hello Britmodellers, and a very Happy New Year to everyone. The holidays allowed me to finally finish a build that was intended as a tribute to Edgar Brooks. Although Edgar was knowledgable on other aircraft types he is probably best known for his grasp of all things Spitfire. To that end, I felt a Spitfire was the ideal type to build and in this case, the jewel that is Tamiya's large scale offering. I opted for the MkXVIe to compliment the earlier Revell MkIIa version that I'd built before. It is easy to see how things developed on the airframe with the two side by side in the cabinet. The engineering of the kit is widely documented and rightly so. These latest Tamiya models are some of the most pleasurable kits to build and even I can get the thing to look half reasonale (from a distance). So with that preamble out of the way, here are a few pics of my tribute to Mr Brooks. Blue skies Edgar. * Apologies, the hosting site has taken it's ball away and gone home so I'll add more images when it stops messing around. Cheers.

Hello BM's, let me present to you my latest effort in the 1/72 scale - Supermarine Spitfire Mk.1a by Airfix. Built out of the box and I made the following modifications: 1. Added rivets using my new riveting tool 2. Removed opaque gun sight and replaced with translucent packaging 3. Made my usual masking tape seat belts 4. Added antenna wire made from elastic clothing thread which I'm not overly happy with. Any suggestions on a good, to scale, product? Pros: 1. Looks like a Spitfire to me! 2. On the whole builds well with the exception of some seam troubles on the fuselage 3. Great detail in the cockpit Cons: 1. Panel lines are far too deep for my liking 2. Decals are quite thick On the whole quite happy with the end result although next time would rethink how to tackle the wash on those deep panel lines... too pronounced for me, especially on the underside and rear fuselage. Comments, critique readily encouraged as I'm always striving to jump to the next level. James Next to my original Spitfire built when I first started the hobby again. This is the old tooling from the Duxfords Legends set. Some other shots from the other models in the BoB 75th Anniversary set: WIP:

Spitfire Mk IIa P7849 MK915 19 Sqn June 1941 I've always particularly liked the MkII Spitfire with its short nose and blunt Rotol spinner and I've been meaning to build one for a while so here is my final build of 2016. This one was presented to the RAF by the Belfast Telegraph and paid for using readers' donations. As it was a presentation Spitfire I decided to make it very clean so there are no heavy smoke stains or paint chipping. Apart from the black on the propeller blades everything has been hand painted; there has been no spraying on this one. The kit was the Airfix MkI/MkIIa kit and the decals are from the 3-D Kits Rotol Spitfires sheet. Paints are the usual mix of Revell and Humbrol enamels. Panel lines were given a light dusting with pastel chalk powder. Humbrol Clear was used as the gloss coat and applied as I generally do with a wide flat brush. For the matt I usually use Humbrol Mattcote but I was almost out so I thought I would give the Clear Matt a try. The stuff was a total disaster. No matter what I did it dried with a white, chalky finish. A quick going over with an old toothbrush was enough to fix the undersides but I ended up having to repaint the upper wing. Fortunately I'd only used it on a small area so it was a fairly easy fix and with plenty of thinning I was able to eke out enough of the Matt Cote to complete the job. Other than that it was a nice, simple build with no real problems except for the gun patch decals which had to be stuck down with PVA glue. Here are few pictures of the final result. And here she is with some of this year's other Spitfires.

Im joining the group build with Aifix's new tool 1/48th Spitfire Mk. Vb. Its a kit I've had my eye on for a while, primarily because the fuselage codes match my initials (!) , but i love the scheme along with second world war aviation. This variant served with 249 Sqn, Ta Kali, Malta in March 1942. Im intending to build completely out of the box, and aiming to practice my weathering and airbrushing with a well worn look. Here's the box art .... The kit looks great on the inside, with plenty of detail on the parts. I haven't added pilots in any of my previous builds ( mainly tamiya ) with stock pilots looking fairly unanimated. However this airfix offering looks great so I'm thinking, canopy open and a thumbs up pose from PO Robert Wendell "Buck" McNair DFC. As always i welcome any comments, tips and tricks along the way.

ICM is to reissue in Q3 2017 its 1/48th Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IXc as "Beer Delivery" a/c - ref. 48060 Source: https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/ICM48060 Box art German reconnaissance plane! V.P.

Here's my airfix 1/48th Spitfire Mk Vb. It was built as part of the MTO guild build, (unfortunately i over ran the deadline) and my thread can be found here .... 1/48 Airfix Spitfire Mk. Vb 'Malta', March 1942 . **Finished** Enjoyable build in the main, and a few firsts for me. I experimented with chipping and weathering using powdered pastels; and more experience with my airbrush. I also placed a pilot inside, slightly adapting him to turn his head and give a thumbs up ! All out of the box other than the ariel cable which was from a company called Uschi.

Hi folks, I always wanted a decent Spitfire XIV in 1/48 scale. As I was not very happy with the Academy kit I did try kitbashing a couple a years ago. This is the Airfix Spitfire XIX coupled with the ICM Spitfire IX wings. The result is far from perfect but it may look more like a Spitfire XIV than the Academy one.

Hi fellow modellers, my last three completions of the year. All made out of the box and painted with K4 acrilics. All very enjoyable kits. First the Airfix Spitfire Mk.22, decals, the only additions were the seatbelts and a PE instrument panel. Second is the beautiful Eduard Spit Mk.IXc. A very complex kit for me, but, excellent and very detailed. And third is the Academy Spitfire MK. XIVc. A very simple kit, thee fuselage is a it fat but it looks like a Spit to me. The decals come from the kit and are excellent, made by Cartograf. I hope you like them. All comments and critics are welcomed. Best regards and happy new year! Ignacio

Flying The Icon: Spitfire Fighting High Publishing There is no doubt the Spitfire is an Icon of aviation. This book aims to give the reader an insight into what it was like to fly the Spitfire and what this entailed. Using pilot notes, flight test documents and personal interviews the author pulls all of this together in the book. Starting of with the Prototype K5054, and through to the post war aircraft (F.18/22/24) the book details how it was flown, and what pilots today think of the aircraft. The book is illustrated through out by contemporary and modern photographs of the various marks of the Spitfire. The book is A4 Hardback (Landscape) format with 176 pages. The printing and layout is first class. Conclusion. This book with give the Spitfire enthusiast a feeling of what is was, and is like to fly this iconic aircraft. Recommended. Review sample courtesy of

When i got back into the hobby one of the models i bought of ebay was the eastern express spitfire mk xiv... wich is the old frog rebox, and it interestingly comes with a V1 flying bomb and a stand. overall the model is rather accurate in dimentions, but there are also some glaring errors, and what details are there all need refining. Anyway, i started playing with the V1 and well once a few pieces are off the sprue there's no turning back. so first the V1 in short, overall dimentions are ok, according to plans i found online (not the ones pictured as it later turned out) but the wings and horizontal stabilizes are to far forward, so these where cut and repositioned. the pulsjet was slightly lenghtened with a bit of plastic tube. the front strut seems to reseble perhaps and interior structure of the v1 but not the swept back aerodynamic strut to this was replaced with plasticcard. the intake was also beefed up with some miliput, although i think i overdid it a little. gave it a shot of tamiya primer, the bottom was painted with a 50/50 mix of white and pru blue, and the top was a mixture or vallejo, revell, heller, and italeri paints along with some vallejo flow improver and airbrush thinner... they all play nice together, and considdering my airbrush skills and the size of the thing, i think it came out ok... And with the buzz bomb done, it was time to build the thing that'll nock it out of the sky. Because the models will be posed in flight cockpit detail will be kept to a bare minimum... well i got a little carried away... i used scale drawings from the monforton spitfire mk xvi/ix (i know not xiv) pinted to 1/72 scale, wich is tiny, but it makes it real easy to correctly position all the ribs and bits and bobs... it's mostely just a few strips of styrene really Later i realised the oxygen hose, wich is missing from most spitfire kits and wich i so cunningly added, would probably not be in stowed position, as the pilot would likely have his mask on.. maybe not as i don't think V1's came in very high, but again, i'm sure he could use it! i modified the kit figure to look a bit more dynamic, fortunately the plastic played nice. so i cut the head and pinned it with a bit of metal wire... the arms where even cut off with sprue cutters... i cut the rudder pedals from the cockpit and stuck them the the gentleman's feet, that way they'll always line up... aha! i was initially going to use the airfix mk ix or xix pilots wich actually look rather nice, but u guess having a backup takes the stress away from this kind of surgery so they have to wait their turn. i'm actually surprised how well he fits in there, his stretches arm even reaches the throttle... and this is what we're going for one of the gravest errors on the frog kit is the wing fillets wich, don't look like the spitfire item from any angle (i think i have a picture of what they looked like somewhere but i wanted to get it over with), and i can only guess how these came about... also the gull wing is lacking, fortunately there is more plastic rather than not enough, so it's just a matter of chopping and sanding everything off that doesn't look like a spitfire. since the kit radiators where to small i need to make new ones, and might just as well go all the way and represent the sunken radiators as per original it's hard to see, but i actually bend the wing near the center to represent the gull wing. and that's where we're with this one... wich reminds me i still need to finish my mkII

Hi everyone It seems that for a while know I have been struggling to find any enthusiasm for my projects. My 1/48 new tool Airfix Mk 1 Spitfire has stalled due to a broken part, my new tool 1/48 Hurricane has also stalled (just lost interest), my JP has been put away for another day (lack of enthusiasm) and I have several GB's that I've joined (again no get up and go there either) so what to do? I have the 1/32 Tamiya Spitfire Mk XVI in my stash so I'm going to start her as my long term project. She will be build mainly OOB except for RB productions Sutton Harness, some fuse wire, some resin stuff I have floating around and after market decals / masks (not too sure which markings yet) so wish me luck as I make a start. Cheers Iain

Spitfire FR.Mk.IXc MK915 V 16 Sqn A.12 Bailleroy, France Here is without doubt one of my favourite colour schemes; a Spitfire in PRU Pink with D-Day stripes. It was going to be a quick, end of summer, OOB build before going back to work but as anyone who followed the build will tell you, it didn't start out this way. Originally I was going to build this in the Johnny Johnson scheme but somewhere along the way I wandered off the plan and this was the result. As always I tried to do something for the first time with this build and I actually achieved a few things. My (non-existant) scratchbuilding skills were put to the test with cockpit and wheel well detailing and there were some aftermarket bits as well as a few things from the spares box. Apart from the final matt finish almost everything was painted using acrylics which is another first and I thought that painting the stripes was another but on reflection there was a Sea Fury with painted stripes before this one. Overall I'm very pleased with the way this turned out. I really enjoyed this little kit. Although it's lacking in a lot of detail it looks ok to me and the added scratchbuilding made for plenty of fun. I was aiming for a very pale shade of pink and I think I got what I wanted although as always I think I might have over weathered it a little. Maybe, maybe not. Anyway, here are a few pictures, I hope you enjoy them. The Kit 1/72 Airfix Supermarine Spitfire MkIXc A02065 The Aftermarket Bits Quickboost resin drop tank 3d-Kits Propeller Xtradecal X72194 D-Day 70th Anniversary Pt 1 Decals The Spares Box Bits Mk I Spitfire seat Eduard PE seat harness Control column reshaped and gun firing button added Added Details Cockpit side walls Instrument panel Wheel wells sides Cowling fasteners Pilot's mirror Camera Port “Rebecca” Beam-approach aerial Paints PRU Pink (Citadel Scar white with a few drops of red) Citadel Scar white Tamiya Nato Black Humbrol 27003 Polished Steel Citadel Straken Green Revell Aquacolor 90 Silver Burnt Umber and Black oil washes Humbrol Clear Humbrol MattCote The WIP is here. Thanks for looking.

This summer's project was to be a Seafire double build but I somehow find myself about to go back to work without any modelling done at all. Instead the garden is much tidier and the bathroom completely redecorated but not even a little bit of sticking or painting of plastic bits. So a few days ago as compensation I decided to get something out of the pile that I could put together quickly and without too much trouble. I received this Spitfire as a surprise gift a while back and thought it would be ideal for my purposes. A Spitfire in Johnny Johnson markings and D Day stripes. I'll build this straight out of the box. Perfect. Construction starts with the cockpit as usual but hold on, this doesn't have one. That doesn't matter, no-one will see it and this is a quick build, we'll come back to it later. Firstly, I need to do something about this. Those bumps will have to go so out with the scalpel and sanding stick . . . a bit of primer . . . and that will do. This is a quick build, must be quick.

I bought this Eduard kit a couple of years ago at the Cosford Model Show. There was some vague plan to fit a resin or PE cockpit of some kind but in the end I decided against it because I wanted to just get on and build them. Plus you can't see anything through the canopies as they are so small. The kit itself is very simple, with fewer than twenty parts each but there is still plenty of detail. The box contains two Spitfires, one full span and one clipped wing version and a sheet of decals as well as a very nicely laid out instruction booklet. There are six different schemes in total with three for each wing type. My only slight criticism would be that there is only one set of upper wing roundels on the sheet which meant I couldn't build my two preferred options although AM decals are available. The main colours were a mix of Revell and Humbrol enamels although the props and stripes were acrylic and everything was brush painted. Anyway, enough rambling, here they are, hope you enjoy them. TD147 JF E Wing Commander James “Stocky” Edwards, Schneverdingen, Germany, May 1945 PV181 RAB, flown by Wing Commander Rolf Arne Berg, No.132 (Norwegian) Wing, Twente, the Netherlands, winter 1944-45

Bit of a belated entry this, been busy with other builds and to be honest also couldn't make my mind up as to which subject to build as I have a fair few (too many according to my wife) to choose from and the MTO is one of my favourite areas of interest in WWII and has already been the subject of quite a few of my builds including a B-24D, P-39, P-38, Spitfire Vb Trop, Henschel HS-129, Bf-109 G-10 and Ju-87B/R. So once again I've probably bitten off more than I can chew and am going to try a double build. I started the Spitfire 5 days ago and haven't taken any progress pictures of it until today (other than the in-box shots) as I wasn't sure I could find the markings I wanted so I was going to build it Turkish which is beyond the scope of this GB and I need to get it finished for Telford for my model club's display. I have however now found that I can build it in the markings I wanted originally which in case you haven't guessed is in Yugoslav partisan Air Force markings, namely 352 Sqn RAF. I am perfectly happy if the mods say it is too far gone to be included in the GB, here are the pictures. Before.... And how she looks now.... And the second part of by build will be the Spitfire's predecessor, a Hurricane Mk.IIC Trop. This will be built from the Revell boxing of the Hasegawa kit and is being built from scratch which will start tomorrow. Anyway here are some pics of the kit box, contents and decals I will use. The decals for the Hurricane are by Lift Here which is a Serbian company so no problems with authenticity and the quality is good as well, I used some of their decals on my Ju-87 which was finished as a machine captured by partisans and then used against the occupying Germans. I am very lucky to have a Serbian friend who sends me these decals (and other goodies), thanks Sasha you are a star. I don't have any markings for the Spit as yet as it has taken me a while to confirm the Yugoslav's used Vb's as nearly all their Spits were Vc's (come on Airfix, hurry up with a Vc!) but I have found one confirmed example and it appears on a sheet by Balkan Models. Oh and just to confirm their place in the GB geographically both the Spits and the Hurricanes before them were based in Italy and in the case of the Hurricanes in North Africa. That's it for now, I hope you find my choices interesting and as usual all comments and criticisms are gratefully received. Craig.

Special Hobby is to release a 1/72nd Supermarine F.Mk.22 Spitfire "High Tech" kit - ref. SH72127 Source: http://www.specialhobby.net/2016/10/sh72127-spitfire-f-mk22-hi-tech-172.html Source: http://www.specialhobby.info/2016/10/special-hobby-newsletter-november-2016.html V.P.

While on one hand it makes me a little nervous to have two kits on the go at the same time, I recently got this: ... and this does seem as good a place as any to build it. One of the box options is for a Malta Spitfire but I will be building one of the options from the Xtradecal sheet X72-161 The Battle for Malta - RAF: Specifically, BR294 GL-E. Our own Tony O'Toole was kind enough to advise me on the scheme and he recommended that the aircraft in question should be painted blue as per the top Spitfire in the picture - I think it will look really nice in those colours with the yellow codes. Tony suggested a colour similar to US Navy Sea Blue so I will use the Colourcoats ACUS07 over ACRN34 Azure Blue - thank you Tony Not sure if I will be able to make a start tonight, but if not... soon... Cheers, Stew