Supermarine Spitfire
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I just finished this for the Water Wings group build.
It's the Brengun kit with the brengun Photoetch set for the cockpit and the ladder on the side. I also took the exhaust and oil cooler from a sword spitfire kit. The paints are all [...]
A few pics of my Spit XVI - I'm well proud of this one as the cockpit & engine bay turned out really well!
Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX C 1/144 Eduard
Brengun photo-etched, vacu canopy
Master metal barrel
Paint Gunze, Tamiya
Decal Fiedotow
1/72 Italeri, I modified a few things, brass wire and tube to the propeller, clear sprue for nav' lights and larger gun blisters, not happy with these at first, finished in MM and Humbrol enamels with Future and Xtra flat over Red Roo and [...]
1/72 Italeri, I modified a few things, finished in Humbrol and MM enamels with Future and Xtra flat over kit and PD decals. Flown by Flt Ltn Brendon "Paddy" Finucane.
The first upgrade of the Spitfire was the Spitfire II, developed to take advantage of a more powerful version of the Marlin engine.
Spitfire Mk.I K9788 was fitted with a Merlin XII in the summer of 1939. Tests demonstrated improved [...]
Here's my version of the Airfix 1/72 Supermarine Spitfire F Mk. 22. For this project I wanted to go for a pristine post-war finish so I did very little weathering. I also used the AK Xtreme Metal polished Aluminum. I very much like that [...]
Spitfire Mk.Vb JU•H(possibly s/n W3848) from 111sqn and flown by Sgt Peter Durnford at Debden, December, 1941
Here's a little article on the old (and I do mean old for a model) Spitfire Mk.1 that was initially released by Revell back in the year 1969 or so. This is a re- release of the kit from approximately 1990. It's kit number 4555.
I built [...]
My next build for Model Airplane International is now complete. This one is a bit different. For some time now I've been helping John Mollison with odd bits of research, John runs the old guys and their aeroplanes website [...]