So, I had this fifth kit I got last year, and it was obvious (by the lack of doing anything with it) that I had done enough "low back" Spitfire XIVs. Since Airfix continues to refuse to modify their PR XIX fuselage and combine it in a box with the rest of this kit and create a "license to print money" for themselves, I decided to solve my desire for a "high back" XIV myself. This was assisted by finding an ancient Fujimi Spitfire Vb in the estate sale at the LHS for cheapcheapcheap.
So, it turns out that, comparing the kits, the Fujimi kit is indeed 1/50 (in case you were wondering), but it is interestingly "1/48" as regards the fuselage between the wing and tail. It's long enough and proper sized to allow to be cut out and combined with the fuselage of the Airfix kit.
As you can see from the photos, once I have sanded things down and rescribed, the project can continue as an "OOB" build of the Airfix kit. And I have Xtradecals for high-back Spitfire XIVs, so all is well.
Looks like this spurt of modeling will be slowing, since my publisher is now seriously threatening to have the contract for the next book in my e-mail by Friday. But getting away from Facebook gives me time to keep it up here as "relief" when I hit writer's block.
for some reason there seems to be a problem with WordPress allowing me to upload pix, so hopefully something will get fixed and I will put up pix then.
