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spit
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 3:10 PM
hi all
do ya know of any good spit mk 1 kits with little or no fit problems

2ndly were can i get a straight canopy not blown
im thinkin of convertin it to K5054 the spit prototype
thanks
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:21 PM
inclined to ask which Scale you are thinking of ? there is a replica of the prototype Spit in the Tangmere Aviation Museum here in the UK., will try put a link in if i can.

http://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/
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Posted by Woody on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:27 PM
Thanks migs, That is a nice pic of the prototype.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:04 PM
Tamyia has an excellent Spitfire Mk1 in both 1/48 and 1/72 scale. I know the the 48th scale kit has three canopies to choose from and one is fairly flat looking.
http://m2reviews.cnsi.net/scotts/allies/spitfire1.htm
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:00 PM
thanks guys
its 1/48
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 10:36 AM
Hi Masu
Paragon used to make a very nice conversion set to do K5054 in 1/48th scale. It might be a bit hard to find now that they have been out of business for a while. K5054 had a 2 blade Watts propeller which is very difficult to find. Production Spits used a different type 2 blade propeller.
As for the unblown canopy, there is nothing like it in the Tamiya kit. You will need a Falcon early Spitfire canopy. The early canopy didn't have the clear vision "knockout" panel on the port side. The windscreen also had no armoured glass protection.
Of course I have been referring to 1/48th scale here.
The Tamiya 1/72nd scale Spitfire is horrible and you are much better off with the Airfix kit, unless, of course, you are just interested in fit and don't care about shape as long as it resembles a Spitfire somewhat.
Cheers
Bob S.
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