Supermarine Spitfire
The Spitfire Database at iModeler
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Spitfire Mk II, Airfix 1/48 (work in progress)
need some details to finish it
Airfix Spitfire Mk XII in 1/48 scale
This is Airfix's recent kit release which I built shortly after it hit the shops. It's pretty much out of the box, but a couple of points made me a little reluctant to post images. I felt that the belly tank detracted from the profile [...]
Revell Mk 9 Spitfire 1/48
This is one I built ages ago but is still a favourite of mine, The Revell Mk 9 Spitfire is a pleasure to build, if I remember rightly you get the option of rounded or the more pointed tailfin and the rounded or clipped wing tips ,you can [...]
“Gear down… flaps down… hook down… what hook?!”
In May 1942, USS Wasp and the Royal Navy carrier HMS Eagle delivered a second batch of Spitfires to Malta as part of Operation Bowery. Launching the Spitfires on May 9, McCampbell participated in one of the more interesting small incidents [...]
1/48 Eduard Spitfire Mk.IXc
This is 1/48 Eduard Spitfire Mk.IXc finished with the markings of ML296, DU-N flown by F/Lt Otto Smik, No. 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron, North Weald AB, Late August, 1944. Eduard s Profipack kit was the prize of iModeler Best in Show – [...]
Spitfire Mk22 and the curse of eBay
Hi All,
This is my Airfix 1/72 Spitfire Mk22 New Tooling.
This model was a Dream to build absolutely no problems at all i didn't add anything but paint its straight OOB i built it as bit of a experiment really to firstly see how quickly i [...]
Airfix Seafire F.R.47 with Cooper Details upgrade
The Seafire F.R.47 was the last of the line that began in 1935 with K5054, the Spitfire prototype. It was twice the weight of the original, with two and a half times the power and an additional 100mph in top speed, not to mention a cannon [...]
Seafire F.45 – Aeroclub conversion of Airfix kit
Throughout the development of the carrier-based Sea Spitfire, which was known as the Seafire, developments in the land-based series of fighters were reflected in approximate naval equivalents. The first of the Griffon-powered Seafires was [...]
Supermarine Seafire Mk47 WW2 1939-1947
With the war in Europe now over and in a world where nuclear technology has never been developed the war against Japan rumbles on, the British government keen to reduce some of its crippling debt and in a bit of uncharacteristic showing [...]
