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Like many others I am, almost by default, building in 1/48 scale a Spitfire collection. One gap is a decent early Mk.XIVc as the one 1/48 model, from Academy, has an oddly-shaped fuselage which is slightly too short and rather too deep. Having acquired one of Airfix's beautiful late model XIVe kite and - shock, horror - a SPARE Airfix PR.XIX, I decided to have a go at creating a decent shape early XIV. By way of comparison, here is the Airfix XIX fuselage above the Academy XIV. The Academy fuselage is noticeably too 'dumpy'. Test fitting the XIX fuselage onto the XIV wings, the basic fit was pretty good but not quite perfect. The main issue was the underwing / fuselage joint where the XIV part was about 10mm too short, thus requiring my cannibalising the unused fuselage from the XIVe. It was also necessary to adapt the bottom cowling to mate with the XIV wing. One subtle area for modification was then wings themselves. The 'E' wing has the cannon (and hence fairing) outboard, whereas the 'C' wing cannon is inboard. In turn, the 'C' wing has the outboard .303 machine guns and whilst the panels are virtually the same, I did need to cut out the ejector chutes. For the cannon fairing, I cut out the Airfix part and, with a little filing, succeeded in mounting the fairings from the Academy kit which, very conveniently, come as separate parts. One other change I made was to remove from the XIV fuel tank the windscreen mounting and transplant it to the XIX fuselage. At first I regretted this, thinking that it might have been better to use the whole component. However, I am glad I did it because not only did it graft on very well but I shall be reusing the fuel tank for my next conversion, the Mk.III prototype. Here are some more views of construction. And finally, the finished article, RB159 of 610 Squadron using Xtradecal set X48130. Lovely they are too. By way of comparison with other marks: I hope you have enjoyed these, I have a full album of images here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/26690797@N02/albums/72177720300660623 Best wishes, Neil
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Some times ago my friend put on my table an old airfix kit. He ask me what we can do with these old kit in scale 1/48. I answer only: Give the model for children's or to someone do you want resent. Then I opened the box and just said: "wow". I have a good idea. I can make a conversion if you give me only the wing underside of kit. The bumps on the wing underside is the god dimenson for a version Mk.IIb I'm member of IPMS Swidnica in Poland, but I living in Germany. Our special is to built a model of Polish Figting Team in RAF of WWII. And so I found a fine foto template for my new model. The decals I have had since many times in my collections (from Techmod) I used also decals from Techmod and Tamiya, The basic kit is a Tamiya Mk.Vb in scale 1/48, simple to built and within three days I was ready with the shell model. I can show my god(?) idea for fire damage to the vertical stabilizer and horizontal stabilizer. This damage has occurred during a dogfight with a Bf 109F. [c] IWM
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