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Spitfire question
Posted by styrene on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:33 PM
OK, I admit upfront that I have no idea what I'm talking about.Big Smile [:D] I'm normally a target--er--armor modeller, but was looking through an airplane book the other night with my son, and found a couple of pictures of a Mark 24 and a Mark 27 Spitfire. For whatever reason, I really liked the 5-blade prop on the former, and the counter-rotating props on the latter ( I think they sort of look cool with the additional blades.) My question is this: Is there a 1/48 kit available of either of these birds, or if there isn't, is there a GOOD conversion set that will work on, say, the Tamiya Spit (Tamiya does make one,right?) If there is a conversion set, who makes it (them), how much is it (are they), and does it (do they) require a lot of work? I'm really kind of looking for "plug and play", if you follow the meaning (straight forward; not a lot of work; superb results). What do you guys recommend?
If this has been asked before, I aplogize, and freely admit to being too lazy to do a forum search. Blush [:I] Thanks for the help and advice.Smile [:)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:52 PM
If you check Great scale Modeling 2003 you will find an Airfix 1/48 Spitfire 24 with the information as to which detail bibs and bobs were used.
Dai.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:35 PM
Although not the mark you asked for, Academy does produce a spitfire mk.XlV which does have 5 prop blades .... check out a review: http://www.scalevision.com/new/spitfirexivbm_1.htm
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 10:09 PM
Hi Styrene
First of all I'll assume that you are referring to the Mk 24 and Seafire 47.
Airfix does both of these very well in 1:48th scale and the Spitfire Mk 24 kit also does the Mk 22 while the Seafire 47 kit also does the Seafire 46.
Cheers
Bob S.
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