Bernd:
Whose kit is the Italeri, ICM or the one from the Portugese outfit that did the AT-6s? Lot of "musical molds" these days.
Did you use the latest Airfix Spit V? I hear good things, but hereabouts they flew off the shelves. I'm waiting for a restock.
A man can't have too many Spits, or Zeroes, or P-40s, Aaaauugh! Obsession? Nah! Not me.

Hi Bernd, I've just picked up your thread about the ICM/Hasegawa FrankenSpit. Brave man to attempt this level of surgery & good luck! Am looking forward to seeing the build progress, it's looking pretty good by the way and well done! I have one of the Mk.VII's sitting in the stash, which you can build pretty much any mark from VII to IX since all the spare bits are there...but I won't be building mine any time soon.

Thanks for the feedback friends, despite the not too accurate outlines the Hasegawa Spitfire Mk.VII to IX are great kits a joy to build and there is no really need for aftermarket stuff.
The ICM Spits were ,as they came out new a huge dissapointment, accurate shaped junk, so i mixed them up, you can t have too many Spitfires.
Can t wait to see your Spitffire run, Paul and i hope here is some inspiration for Mareks
Spit, "downstairs" in the stash 🙂
Best wishes and einen Guten Rutsch for 2015, we will see us 🙂

Bernd

Hi Bernd, food for thought, I would have never thought to graft bits of the ICM kit onto the Hasegawa Spit. (and there are lots of easier Spit builds out there)...having said that I dragged my couple out of the stash (again) for a second look, (see photo below). If I were feeling masochistic enough I'd probably go for the Mk.XVI, there's a bit of aftermarket tucked into the box and markings for 302 squadron Polish Air Force. (maybe 2016?). And goodness knows what I'll do the Mk.VIII, since I was going to do a Russian Mk.IX, but the new Eduard weekend kit was just too tempting a purchase to resist.

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Thank you for your nice comments, that keeps me on track, so while i am lacking the usual new years day hangover, i will hit my bench.

Marek, get the XVI out of the pile, ICM has improved their production quality and it should be a worthy kit to do, i guess Eduard will do more Spitfire marks.

The cockpit from ICM is not state of the art but it can be enhanced with a Eduard Zoom Set

Nr. FE331 for example, the set is for the Italeri/Occidental kit but i believe it can be used with ICM as well.

You should have other decals for ICM kits !

The Eduard kits are very nice and will hit my stash soon

Hi Bernd, thanks for the encouragement but I doubt if I'll get round round to picking up the Mk. XVI this year, as there's another Spitty in the Work-In Progress pile: The Eduard re-boxing of Airfix's Mk 22/24. (I ought to get round to posting some pix of that on this part of the forum). There's also Tamiya's 1/48 Mk VB which has had a bit of primer on the sprues for a while as well...I have to finish some projects before I start anymore. (Modeller's Attention Deficit Disorder, methinks).

Did some modelling yesterday and today as well. Yesterdays work was mainly the prop.

Hasegawas spinner has not much in common with a mid war Spit, the ICM prop looks better but the blades in my ICM kit were full of sinkholes, as well the spinner (what else)

So i sanded the ICM spinner to a more smooth surface with some putty, the Hasegawa blades were made a tad thinner at the base to accept the ICM spinner holes.
There is a lot of aftermarket stuff for the Spitfire out, but i keep my idea to use only material at hand.
Currently i am plumbing the firewall and detail the ICM Merlin.
The engine compartment of the IX is full of stuff, hard to keep the overview.

So, this topic was started as a single fun build using mediocre kits to get one better Spitfire
now i have two Spitfires in the work.
The recovered Mk.VIII will be finished with all its inaccurate "glory" but i need something new in my WWII fighter line up and it feels good to get one more out of this box.
It was primed black today and after this a first layer of Medium Sea Gray were sprayed cloudy all over it, all panel lines are stripped from paint.
Found imperfections on the air intake, this should be an easy fix.
This will be a Gray Nurse Spit, decals will come from an Aeromaster sheet, covering RAAF spitfires in the Pacific theatre of war
Sorry for the bad pictures, todays daylight leaves a lot to be desired

Bernd