Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Spit in civil service

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.




And here is the completed model:


In addition to what's stated on the box, here is more on the history of the airplane.

It was fun to go back to building model kits again, something I used to do quite a lot many many years ago. There will no doubt be more!

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