Southampton being the 'home of the Spitfire', there are ambitious plans for creating a National Spitfire Monument in the city, visible from afar.
The centrepiece of the monument is a 1.5 scale model of a Spitfire, soaring into the sky.
Southampton being the 'home of the Spitfire', there are ambitious plans for creating a National Spitfire Monument in the city, visible from afar.
Nearly all my Spitfire models are diecast models. The one exception is the model of a Spitfire 'Floatplane', which is a plastic kit, but which I got off eBay fully built.
From there, it's one small step to looking at plastic kits of Spitfires, see if I can find Spitfire versions that are not available as diecast models, and then build them from scratch, right?
So here's the first one: a model of a Mk IX Spitfire with civil livery.
Over the years, Southampton has been livened up by a number of 'sculpture trails', and several of them had Spitfire-inspired sculptures! Another trail, Light the South, recently featured 40 large (8ft) and 40 small sculptures of lighthouses. And, sure enough, one of the lighthouses was inspired by the Spitfire!
This blog post is about a rather unusual Spitfire. One which never flew, and basically never really existed .... Curious? Read on! The heav...