New Airfix big Spitfire

[nickedw]

Well the Committee like it ,so you got
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award . Congratulations Nick .

Cool! Thank you

[nickedw]

That looks great!

You've also managed to get the panels on over the engine, which I failed to do.

According to the late Edgar Brooks, who knew a thing or two about Spitfires, fittings for crowbars were installed on the MKs. I & II, from February,1941. I would assume that crowbars were also provided thereafter since nobody was going to break out of a cockpit with a couple of clips!
Crowbars were factory fitted from January, 1942 (mods 320 & 483). Wartime crowbars were in various colours, green, black, or unpainted. Red came post war, probably something to do with 'elf and safety'.

Yes, all that stuff. I refer you to my previous answer

[nickedw]

BTW it’s that damn big I was struggling to think how to photograph it. Separately I’m also part of the Adobe Beta program so have access to the slightly scary and much maligned ‘Firefly’ AI system. So you basically type in what you want, in this case ‘World War Two Airstrip‘ and it trundles off and GENERATES a photo of what you asked for. this in fact



so to be clear, it hasn’t searched some kind of photo library, it’s knitted it itself based on its understanding of the words I typed. It was then just a question of sending it to a biggish telly I prepared earlier



now I read that back, I guess it is slightly scary.

[boatman]

WOW Nick she looks real what a wonderfull model very well done Sir
chrisb

[Steve Brodie]

Thats a very nice Spitty

[papa 695]

Fantastic work Nick.

[Vaughan]

An outstanding build Nick, I love your photo set up.

[nickedw]

Seeing as I had my spitfire paint out I knocked this up this afternoon with a kit Aldi we’re selling last Xmas for next to nothing.

[flyjoe180]

Love the big Spitfire Nick, very nicely done.

[colin m]

Very nice indeed. I like it when I can look at a model and ‘hear’ the engine.