Supermarine Spitfire
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Just one more Spitfire, in fact it has been an incredible year for this mark. New kits, different variations, and we still have 4 months to go. This will be the last one for awhile for me though. This is the Tamiya Mk.Vb kit #61035 [...]
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This model I made a few months ago. New tool from Airfix. The kit is not bad, but the panels are too deep. Canopy is given as one-piece, and that's bad.
Some say that the colors are not good, but I'm working on Airfix [...]
Supermarine Spitfire LF.Mk.XVI, SM309/AU-H, “Panama Bound” 421(Royal Canadian Air Force) Squadron in 1945. Flown by Flt.Lt. Richard “Hap”Beal.
Back in 1997 Airfix came out with a brace of Spitfire/Seafire kits to knock your socks off. For me, the magic still works & the result is here. This will not be the last of these kits for me as I have another Mk.22 plus the Seafire 47 [...]
65 years ago this summer...
On 25 June 1950, the North Korean invasion of South Korea found the United States in a greater state of military unpreparedness than had the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor nine and a half years earlier. In the [...]
Just finished my Airfix 1/72 Spitfire MK II LR. Used the new tool Airfix kit with the 3D Kits conversion kit which provides the extra wing mounted fuel tank and markings for Spitfire P8448 "Counterattack" of 152 Squadron. Added [...]
Today is the70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War the most destructive event in human history. It was hard-fought to the last minute.
HMS Indefatigable joined the American Third Fleet in Japanese waters after August 10, 1945, [...]
The Spitfire 21 was so different from all the Spitfires that came before that it was originally thought it should be named the "Victor." In the end, the Spitfire name was retained.
Based on the experimental Spitfire Mk.IV/XX, [...]
This is Tamiya's 1/48 scale kit that I purchased at a show several years ago. Had previously done the Revell kit but was never quite satisfied with how it looked, so I thought I would try Tamiya. Really went together quite well only thing [...]
The Supermarine Spitfire is the most famous and recognizable British airplane ever built and as close to immortal as any airplane will ever get. The Spitfire I first appeared in RAF squadron service in the summer of 1938. Harder to [...]