Supermarine Spitfire
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I converted the 1/48 ICM Spitfire to the Soviet AF UT version. Their own pilot rainer.
Soviets rebuild nearly any used western aircraft type to a trainer version to help the pilots to understand the aircraft during the training.
The kit [...]
I did this one for IPMS USA review and thought I would drop it off here for a gander. Hope you guys like.
IF interested you can read the full review on IPMS USA:
(link)
Thanks
Steve,
Spitfire RW393, 601 Squadron RAuxAF, 1949. This aircraft took part in the Cooper Air Race of 1949, a competition for RAuxAF squadrons, named after W/C Geoffrey Cooper M.P.. A great kit with the usual Eduard over engineering in a few [...]
The RAF allowed Squadron and Wing Leaders to use their initials as their code. Famous ones are JEJ, DB, and RST. As I always fancied myself as an Sqn. Leader in an Eagle Sqn, Why not have my vanity codes? The problem was the only aircraft [...]
Hi All!
One may hazard a guess from the Mig-3 and Yak-9 I built from ICM, that all of their kits are, well (I'll be nice) not up to modern standards. That is not true. ICM's twin-stage Merlin Spitfire series was the best on the market [...]
My version of ES352 of No. 43 Squadron, based in Italy in 1943. The kit is the relatively new one from Airfix, purchased a year ago during a trip to Hendon, and built pretty much completely out-of-the-box.
It fell together easily enough - [...]
This started out with a built 1/32 Spitfire I purchased on eBay for an unheard of $4.99. The original builder had simply assembled it and put the kit decals on, with no paint or other work done.
For years, since I was a young child, I [...]
Hi everyone
Been a long time since I actually finished a kit, though I have plenty on the bench at the moment.
Bought this kit a few years back in second hand, box a bit bruised but contentes were as new and sealed.
Added some brassin [...]
RAF No.92 (formerly known as “East India”) is a Test and Evaluation Squadron based at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. It was formed as part of the Royal Flying Corps at London Colney as a fighter unit on 1 September 1917 and deployed to [...]