Supermarine Spitfire
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1/32 Hasegawa-Paragon-Warbird Spitfire Mk.XII
This is 1/32 Spitfire Mk.XII with the markings of EB-B MB882 from No.41 sqn RAF Tangmere, Sussex England in October 1943
The base kit is Hasegawa Spitfire MkVb. I have used Paragon Spitfire Mk.XII conversion set with Warbird universal [...]
Review: Eduard 1/48 Spitfire Vb (late) EP120
With the arrival of the Fw 190 in August 1941 the Spitfire Vb was outclassed in everything but turning radius. As Al Deere said, “Turning doesn’t win battles!” In an effort to counter the Fw-190 threat at lower altitudes, where the [...]
Pretty in Pink
Hi All!
Here is another Spitfire, this time a Spitfire MK.I PR Type Ic (early or first). It started out as an Airfix 1/48th scale Spitfire Vb, which led to more work but I had run out of Spitfire Is. The wings had the bulges removed ( I [...]
Matchbox 1/72 Spitfire Mk.IX (Royal Egyptian Air Force)
This Spitfire was built for a Matchbox Group Build that is still currently going on to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Matchbox to when they first started releasing their injected mold kits in 1972. In regards to this group build, I [...]
Supermarine Spitfire, Tamiya, 1:48
Hello, I would like to show my latest work. It's famous Supermarine Spitfire Mk.1 from Battle of Britain from 1940 year. I like the shape of this plane. Very elegant and agressive. I think painting of pilot is good positive and camouflage. [...]
Eduard 1:48 Spitfire Mk.VIII (Weekend Edition)
It's an Eduard kit, say no more. Markings are for 31st Fighter Group, 308th Fighter Squadron "hack"- HL✪R, s/nJF470, Italy 1944-45. An area of concern that is well mentioned is the two piece upper cowl panel which needs to have [...]
Kotare Models 1/32 Spitfire Mk. I, arriving in November
Kotare Models have announced that their first kit, K32001 Kotare 1/32 Spitfire Mk.Ia (Mid) is now available to pre-order. The production item will be shipping hopefully in late November-December 2022 subject to worldwide trade [...]
Models I had to work at
The Spitfires I posted were modern well-detailed kits that fit together nicely. So I decided to post some of my more trying kits this time.
FM-2- This is the Sword kit. Thank god for spares boxes. This kit decided to fight me from the [...]
Spitfirepalooza Meets Ancient Hawk Kit
Here’s the other half (I posted the Bf- 109 earlier) of the duo kit from Round 2 ne Lindbergh ne Hawk Models repop of the Spitfire Mk. 22. Lots of rivets, no landing gear or cockpit detail and lots of memories of my uncle and I making [...]
More Spitfires
Since people are posting Spitfires, here are some of mine (all are 1/48th):
MD-Tis an Airfix new mold Vb as "Buckeye Don"
NK-K is an Airfix Mk.IIa (from the Mk.I kit, Mk.II parts are in the box)
AN-A is an Eduard MK.VIII
And T-B [...]
