Tokyo Raider Posted March 8, 2021 Author Share Posted March 8, 2021 11 hours ago, dragonlanceHR said: Pr.XIX is also dissapointing re: accuracy. This is the way (or ways): I have spoken 🙂 Wonderful! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WrathofAtlantis Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 Amazing that after 30 years of kit bashing, this on an absolutely massive scale (including in printed media), it is still down to kitbashing to get the most advanced WWII Spitfire... And after ALL that, Airfix comes out with.... Drum roll.... Basically a post-war variant. These people are more clueless than Mr Bean. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 8 hours ago, WrathofAtlantis said: Amazing that after 30 years of kit bashing, this on an absolutely massive scale (including in printed media), it is still down to kitbashing to get the most advanced WWII Spitfire... And after ALL that, Airfix comes out with.... Drum roll.... Basically a post-war variant. These people are more clueless than Mr Bean. Well, Academy did a wartime XIV and have been selling it for 25 years... pity that the kit is very inaccurate but this does not seem to matter to many. Meaning that one thing is the lack of a kit of a certain subject, a different story is the lack of an accurate kit of said subject... afterall we've had plenty of 1/72 Spitfire IX kits over the years, that is a variant historically much more important then the XIV, and yet we haven't had a properly accurate 1/72 Spit IX until Eduard issued theirs 5 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt-92 Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 On 3/9/2021 at 12:18 AM, WrathofAtlantis said: These people are more clueless than Mr Bean. ... except for the part where they can now re-issue the kit as G-FIRE maybe not so clueless... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welkin Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 5 hours ago, alt-92 said: ... except for the part where they can now re-issue the kit as G-FIRE maybe not so clueless... Although I suspect that sales of a high-back XIV would have been greater? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt-92 Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Depends on who you're marketing to, right? The more casual modeller versus the hard-core Spitfire fan, who's the bigger target audience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tail-Dragon Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 On 3/7/2021 at 8:41 AM, Tail-Dragon said: I did a Mk XIVe conversion a while ago using the PR XIX as a basis.. This might give some help ... Spitfire Mk XIVe Highback, and FR XIVe Bubbletop - more photo's of painting, Nov13 - Work in Progress - Aircraft - Britmodeller.com https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235064455-148-spitfire-f-xive-highback-402-squadron-rcaf-march-1945/ Were I to do another, I'd use a bubble-top and graft on an aft spine and canopy from a disposable kit (an ICM Mk IX, or even an old Otaki). I'm just too cheap to butcher two good kits (Airfix and Eduard) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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