Airfix

[The Wooksta!]

You'd be better off using the older Ia, bearing in mind all the panel lines were filled in and sanded down.  Easier to sand off raised panels than fill them in!  Also cheaper, as I assume you've a reasonable stock?

92?  I think my stash of Spits is into 3 figures...  I honestly don't know as I've never actually counted them.

[kitnut617]

And I thought my stash of 46 Spits was overboard   

[The Wooksta!]

That's a girl's stash!

[NARSES2]

Will you lot stopped teasing me with all this Airfix Spit I stuff, it's driving me mad 

Hopefully I shall pick up a couple today...all hail the Thorvic 

[Weaver]

Here's an admission: I have NEVER built an Airfix Spitfire, even when I was a kid, or indeed, any other Spitfire either. I have exactly ONE in the stash (a Heller bubble-top, clipped-wing one (I don't know the Mk.Nos off by heart either). There's something about both the Spit and the 109 that just doesn't appeal to me (I only have two 109s, and both of those came in job lots with other things that I really wanted).

[NARSES2]

Will you lot stopped teasing me with all this Airfix Spit I stuff, it's driving me mad  

Hopefully I shall pick up a couple today...all hail the Thorvic  

Picked them up from the PO today. Worth the wait  

Here's an admission: I have NEVER built an Airfix Spitfire, even when I was a kid, or indeed, any other Spitfire either. I have exactly ONE in the stash (a Heller bubble-top, clipped-wing one (I don't know the Mk.Nos off by heart either). There's something about both the Spit and the 109 that just doesn't appeal to me (I only have two 109s, and both of those came in job lots with other things that I really wanted).

It would be a sad old world if we all liked the same things mate. I for one can't "stand" F.15/16/18's, and far worse things happen at sea. I even know a couple of Man Utd supporters   

[lancer]

I even know a couple of Man Utd supporters     

Are you really sure that's something youi want to admit to???

Gorgeous looking Valliant shots, Gotta have a few of them when they come out. I suppose I should be gettign some more spit kits for the stash, I think I have precisely 1 at the moment. I guess I'd better do the same with the 109 & 110 kits as well.

[NARSES2]

Just checked the spreadsheet and I have 65 Spits of all marks in 1/72. Plus various Seafires, Spitefull's and Seafangs in 1/72 and a few Spits in 1/48

[pyro-manic]

I have none in the stash, and have only ever built two - both Airfix Vbs, one as a child, one a year or so back. I'm hoping Airfix will do a F.22/24 in 1:72. I much prefer the big-tailed bubble-tops to the earlier versions.

[PR19_Kit]

I have exactly ONE in the stash (a Heller bubble-top, clipped-wing one (I don't know the Mk.Nos off by heart either)

That'll be a 16 then, or an XVI to be more accurate. 

Sadly I DO know the Mk. Nos. off by heart, but when you've lived in a house where the boss-man spoke of nothing BUT Spitfires for years and years (when he wasn't on about Audaxes that is....) it all tends to rub off on you. 

[The Wooksta!]

The next 72nd Spitfire they'll release will be a IIa/Va, judging by the way the new Ia is broken down.  And I'd definitely welcome a 22/24 Spit.

[NARSES2]

I'm hoping Airfix will do a F.22/24 in 1:72. I much prefer the big-tailed bubble-tops to the earlier versions.

Also like to see a F.22/24 in 1/72.  Must admit I prefer the earlier marks myself. Don't get me wrong I like all Spitfires/Seafires but the Mk I's, II's & Vs have a certain "daintiness" about them. I'll go dig a hole because of my use of that rather effete word and Spitfire in the same sentence 

[PR19_Kit]

Don't get me wrong I like all Spitfires/Seafires but the Mk I's, II's & Vs have a certain "daintiness" about them. I'll go dig a hole because of my use of that rather effete word and Spitfire in the same sentence 

Chris,

Why dig? It suits the early Marks very well.

Compared to a Hurricane, a veritable brute by comparison, a Spitfire I is dainty. As time went on you can see the 'daintiness' being bred out, and when they changed to the Griffon engine with the Mk XII it was almost gone completely! The later Marks, the 20 series models, are almost totally different aircraft.

[NARSES2]

Don't get me wrong I like all Spitfires/Seafires but the Mk I's, II's & Vs have a certain "daintiness" about them. I'll go dig a hole because of my use of that rather effete word and Spitfire in the same sentence 

Chris,

Why dig? It suits the early Marks very well.

Compared to a Hurricane, a veritable brute by comparison, a Spitfire I is dainty. As time went on you can see the 'daintiness' being bred out, and when they changed to the Griffon engine with the Mk XII it was almost gone completely! The later Marks, the 20 series models, are almost totally different aircraft.

I have heard it said (possibly by you sir ?) that under normall circumstances the latter marks would have had a different name, but Vickers in their canniness used the same name so that the MOD didn't go through the full procurement route and just signed on the dotted line for a upgraded airframe. Interesting ?

[PR19_Kit]

I have heard it said (possibly by you sir ?) that under normall circumstances the latter marks would have had a different name, but Vickers in their canniness used the same name so that the MOD didn't go through the full procurement route and just signed on the dotted line for a upgraded airframe. Interesting ?

Sir? You must be thinking of some other fellow! 

But seriously I think we did discuss that at a recent show somewhere. Hawker followed the more normal route and developed the Hurricane in exactly the same way, but they DID change the names as they went on. viz the Tornado, Typhoon, Tempest etc. (Hm, that sequence sounds vaguely familiar somehow....)