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Supermarine Spitfire

Supermarine Spitfire

Spitfire is my love. I build everything. All in 1/48. Eduard, ICM, Hasegawa, Tamiya,Hobbycraft, Academy... all. Because i love Spitfire 🙂

Supermarine Spitfire Mk.VA , Wing Commander Douglas Bader

The Spitfire VA W3185 D-B Wing Commander Douglas Bader, Tangmere, August 1941 Kit: Hobby 2000 1:32

Film Star !, part 2. 'Battle of Britain' movie Spitfire Mk IX (dressed up as a Mk 1)

This is the next completion in my "Battle of Britain" movie builds, the ICM 1/48 Spitfire IXc, modified into Spitfire Mk IXc, MK297 that was the aircraft marked as AI*A, flown by Squadron leader 'Skipper' {Robert Shaw} in the [...]

RAAF Spitfire Vc. 452 Sqn. Northern Territory, Australia, 1943

Having made what seems to be a career out of Spitfires & particularly Vc versions of late, I'm happy to have finished my first Eduard 1/48 Vc kit. All my other efforts for this mark have been mostly kit bashed, with the exception of [...]

1/72 Eduard Spitfire Mk.IXe.

My second build from "The Longest Day" box set. Having built the first one this was a little easier as I'd got the snags out of the way. Well, apart from the self-inflicted ones. :blush: Primed with Tamiya Neutral Grey, Painted [...]

Eduard 1/72 Spitfire MK.IXc Early.

This is build one from "The Longest Day" box set. My first Eduard Spitfire and while it is beautifully detailed I think it may be a tad over engineered for 1/72. The wheels came in 4 parts each the underwing radiators were 7 [...]

Desert Air Force Spitfire Mk.VcEduard 1/48 Profipack

This is a non-box 1943 Desert Air Force Spitfire scheme using the Mk.Vc Tropical (with Volkes air filter) optional parts from Eduard's absolutely excellent new Mk.Vc ProfiPack kit. It has the slightly awkward and unnecessarily fiddly [...]

The wages of writing :-)

So, some of you may have noticed over at the Eduard website that they have an actual historian writing their Wildcat history (with more to come). That would be yours truly, who was asked by Vlad if I would do that, and said [...]

When a Spitfire turns into a praying mantis: Seafire F.XVII, 741st NAS, St.Merryn 1947

About the Seafire F.XVII The Seafire F.XVII shown here represents the second generation of "Spitfires that were taught to swim", now equipped with Rolls Royce Griffon engines instead of the previous Merlin engines. The first [...]

New Airfix Spitfire Vb compared with the Eduard kit

Late in 1940, the RAF believed the appearance of the pressurized Junkers Ju 86P over Britain would signal the start of a high altitude bombing offensive by the Luftwaffe. The Air Ministry called for development of a pressurized Spitfire, [...]