plastic Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Just got Airfix's spitfire as title. Now, it's one of the older style boxings, the Kit Ref. No. on the end of the box is A05113. When I picked up the box it seemed rather full for a 1/48 Spit., and this was obviously, as I found out on opening, because as well as the kit parts all together in one plastic bag, there was another bag with three sprues in it. A casual glance at the instructions seemed to show no callouts for the parts in the extra bag. They comprise of 2 wing tops with no bulges and 2 holes for cannon apparently, 3 sets of wing tips, clipped, standard and pointy extended ones. Also 4 blade prop, cannon barrels, flaps, undercarriage legs, pointy spinner, 4 upper wing panels, 2 with large central bulges and 2 with offset smaller bulges. A no of other parts including underside cowling and 2 exhausts. Anyone know if they should be there or are from some other Spit version perhaps? The bag has a small paper label with numbers as below ----- MIC07 P88772 C631 42 312 Any help would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thx6667 Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 IIRC some of the sprues from the Vc kit were included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plastic Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Ah, right. Thanks Jonathan. That explains it. Wonder why they don't mention this on the box? Odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dereknf Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 They probably didn't mention it as you can't build a MkV as the fuselage is the wrong length. It must have been easier to keep the sprues in the package than remove them even all though they weren't needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Maas Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Just pulled mine out of the stash, I can confirm that you've got a set of Vc/Seafire III sprues in there. Those sprues have the exhausts, flaps, wingtips and canon bulges you'll use on the IX There's actually 4 sets of wingtips included, 2 clipped, 1 standard and 1 extended. The biggest problem I see is that you've got a Vc C wing and a post-war C/E hybrid wing (complete with wheel bulges), but it doesn't look like theres an actual E wing for the wartime mkIXe/XVIe, but that should be easily solved by filling the outer MG ejection ports and fitting the proper cannon bulges and barrels on the E lower wing. The wheel bulges remain wrong for wartime E wings. I'd probably try and use the Vc upper wings with the IX lower wings in order to avoid the wheel bulge issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plastic Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Thanks for the replies gentlemen. Much appreciated. Adam, I'll follow your advice and see how it comes out. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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