fishplanebeer Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 I'm sure I've read somewhere that the yet to be released 'Beginners Set' of the new Spitfire Vc will have a slightly different mold to the one recently released and the image of it on the Airfix web site certainly seems to show smaller canon blisters on the upper wings, associated with aircraft fitted with only 1 canon per wing ie. the standard 'c' wing. Have I imagined this or is there any truth here please? Regards Colin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadway Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 From the 2021 release video, "fewer parts, less internal detail" https://youtu.be/LVx0yLyeeuQ?t=88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Russell Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 The upper wing looks very similar in the video. I like Airfix but would not canonize them. smaller canon blisters 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 1 hour ago, Broadway said: From the 2021 release video, "fewer parts, less internal detail" Excellent, that cockpit tub is a right pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Swindell Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 9 hours ago, fishplanebeer said: I'm sure I've read somewhere that the yet to be released 'Beginners Set' of the new Spitfire Vc will have a slightly different mold to the one recently released and the image of it on the Airfix web site certainly seems to show smaller canon blisters on the upper wings, associated with aircraft fitted with only 1 canon per wing ie. the standard 'c' wing. Have I imagined this or is there any truth here please? Regards Colin. The small starter set VC is mainly a different tooling based on the same CAD with much simplified details and fewer options. The only sprue it shares with the standard VC kit is the full span wing sprue, so large cannon blisters. They're shown on the boxtop illustration here https://www.airfix.com/uk-en/shop/aircraft/military-aircraft/small-beginners-set-supermarine-spitfire-mkvc.html, and if you slow it right down and look carefully, you can see the sprues in the advent calendar video of Paramjit building one here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishplanebeer Posted January 13, 2021 Author Share Posted January 13, 2021 Many thanks for clarifying this for me, just a pity it won't have the correct blisters after all. Regards Colin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 2 hours ago, fishplanebeer said: Many thanks for clarifying this for me, just a pity it won't have the correct blisters after all. The wider cannon blisters aren't incorrect as such, most Spitfires Vc had them. Later examples had the narrower blisters and some earlier ones had them retrofitted. It's a shame Airfix didn't include separate parts to do either sort, as they did in the earlier Vc. John. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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