Fred's Last Hours Spitfire - *** Finished!***

A Matchbox kit GB in tribute to Ted Taylor who passed away on July 29th.
GB runs from August 15th through September 30th.
GBL: Martin R, and others.

Please join us as we honor this fine gentleman, modeller, and icon of Classic British Kit history.
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DazDaMan
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Re: Fred's Last Hours Spitfire - *** Finished!***

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Looks good to me! I'm on a Spit XVI fix at the moment myself - got SEVEN of them on the go!! (5 Heller, 1 Matchbox, 1 Revell)
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DazDaMan wrote:Looks good to me! I'm on a Spit XVI fix at the moment myself - got SEVEN of them on the go!! (5 Heller, 1 Matchbox, 1 Revell)
Oh boy, are you on the right forum!
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Blimey Fred, quick work and nice additional details too.
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Thanks for the nice words fellow modellers.
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Great looking Spit, love the colour.
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Lovely looking Spitfire.

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Post by splash »

I must have blinked and missed this build :-D

Well done it looks brilliant.

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Fantastic!

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