Just about ready to call these done:
All that is left to is to redo the small antenna wire going up the side of the antenna on KL-B as it broke off overnight, play around with the stand (in particular, KL-N which looks like it's in a nosedive to Earth, Spitfires are always a pain in the backside to make stands for as your only real choice is to put it below the seat which means there's a lack of room inside the model for the rod to go), and finally dust everything including the photo booth again.
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Overall its been a good fun build, the Eduard kit isn't perfect and I definitely don't sing praises about them as much as I see online, but this one is a decent little kit. I need to double check whether it actually lists that the 'The Few' comes with sprues for an early AND a late style Mk.I Spitfire as it was a little disappointing to have to do a little modification, if I was to do this again I'd probably just buy two seperate late style kits. Watching out for problem areas like those ailerons falling off every 3 seconds, and for a cockpit which doesn't fit great (note, on these it's due to the pilot, probably... I have heard from 4 people over at Instagram that they've had issues with the canopy when building out of box with no pilot) and you'll be set on a great result. Naturally its annoying that fewer and fewer companies offer a wheels up part or a pilot figure, and with Eduard seemingly to forget how to make a propeller that isn't static in the last 5 years some work had to be done to modify it to my liking, but overall its been a good fun build with no major issues.
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If I was to do this again I'd definitely remove those out of scale rivets on the fuselage, they look like that vintage Airfix Hurricane model and wouldn't be out of place on a WWI tank.
I definitely recommend picking this up if you're in the mood for an early Spitfire, I'd be curious to see how this stacks up against 2019 Tamiya's offering of the same subject. I for one will probably pick up a Spitfire Mk.V when eduard releases it later this year and do one for Douglas Bader so I can use the resin figure in this kit for something.
And of course, thank you all for following along and commenting over this build process. It's been a lot of fun and I'll definitely be doing another post for my next build. Until then, look out for some better photos of the finished product tonight or tomorrow!
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