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Today i bought another Tamiya 1/32 Spitfire MkIX....why you ask..you have one with an inch of dust on it already :) Well i remember it as a kit that goes together very well, has lots of detail and no headaches. I remember it being a pleasure to build ? so i bought another to try and keep my...

Looking ahead to the apparently "well documented" non fitting gun cover. Shame no on has done a "well documented" fix :) So taping up one side in position And this then is the other side Now as panel lines go, this one wins a prize :) So whats gone wrong ? Well if you take the gun...

This is the Eduard/HGW armour plate for the rear of the cockpit as you can see it fouls the protrusions near the top ,,, but hang on, it looks out of shape anyway ? here it on the back of the panel as its flat. The angles at the top are not symmetrical so its always going to look wonky...

I have chickened out of the engine while i try and think of a way to improve it without after market. so this is the Pit. Its just balanced together here as there are a few problems. The first problem is the rudder pedals foul a box on the side of the fuselage stopping the whole ting...

Hang on guys !!! no pressure then ? :) I am looking to see what i can do but its very frustrating working in 1/32, Rhino points to the Bentley but there is a world of difference in 1/12 and 1/32 :) , its really what you are set up to deal with. Bit like me asking Steve to paint a figure for...

Yes i i am happy to say i was wrong, My doubts were really because no one makes an after market engine like this but as Saul says, Eduard did make one , now discontinued, which explains how he got the detail in things like plug leads as these were separate parts in the Eduard up grade. you can...

It will be over priced here for sure but TBH i would think the market would be the US as no one else would need a catapult launched F35 and we have our own versions. I bought the B version as its RAF issue.

Yea but its good to know there will never be another far right fascist party................. because they banned the flag..... :)

Oh dear... not a great start then, at least i got the Dragon bit right. :cool: loads of unused parts so you need to be careful and as your in box pics show, a bomb and fuel tanks on an E4 ( but not in the instructions) so they were thinking E7 and others no doubt...I did spend a little while...

Actually its because we beat the Germans .............we still drive on the correct side of the road :fencing:

This is 1/32 Paul I chose this because its very much what i think of a Battle of Britain aircraft and in the colours i would expect.

Its not going to happen Bob. I have looked in to it but i dont have drills small enough to drill the conduit, smallest i have is 0.4 mm , about 12 thou, :-) and thats the smallest my pin chuck will take. I am just not set up for work that small although i spent a lifetime as a toolmaker where...

Next up i am looking at the engine. Again i could buy an Eduard high detail effort but i have found that although they are very nice there is usually some consequences, ie: never straight forward. So lets see what we can do with the kit parts and save a load of Dosh :cool: this is what you...

I think...not sure but this is the Dragon kit. I really like the Hobby2000 kits, a lot of the are Hasegawa. they are nicely boxed good glossy colour instruction. High quality decals, all the ones i have built include some PE and canopy masks and frets are individually bagged. Best of all they...

I am purposely avoiding after market on my build :-) We dont get on :cool: I will start a thread later. Thanks Rich I know nothing about German Aircraft. I am of a generation in England who's father fought Germans and who's family were bombed by Germans. As a child in the 60s i wasnt even...

Its very unlikely that an E model would have had a drop tank anyway, much like the spitfire they were not designed to carry them. Its not straight forward to attach a line in to the fuel system, get the fuel up from the tank, to mount the tank on an aircraft with no shackles to suit etc...and of...

Maybe i owe him an apology, i dont know, i dont have a Facebook account.

Pretty sure that 109 is 1/32, the 190 certainly is as i recognise the Eduard engine parts. So what he has done is remove the moulded in plug wire conduit and leads replace them with a 1mm tube with 0.5mm gland nuts of 3 dia and less than 1mm long, drilled these in at 45 degree into a round...

Thanks RichB, Should be significantly noticeable along side the A/B version then.

As a model, how does it differ from an A type ? are their specific ship board differences ? is it just folding wing ?