Academy Spitfire Mk XIVc 1/72

[AceSeafire]

I am building this at the moment and was asked for an in box review of the kit...so here it is :-)



Sprue shots (i'd already made a start on this kit when these were taken)



The detail on the model is very finely engraved and looks excellent to my (untrained) eye:




Academy provide 2 lots of cockpit canopy, one for displaying the canopy open and one for closed. The door is also optionally open or closed to match:



Instructions are straight forward although the painting/decal diagram could be better! There is no side view given to help with camo etc.





Decals are in register and the seatbelt decal is a nice touch. I imagine they'll be annoying to apply as with Academy decals in general but can't confirm as I haven't got that far yet.

[AndrewR]

It goes together well, but looks a bit, er, portly, when you put it alongside other Spitfire kits. It's not so bad displayed on its own. The underwing coolers are also the wrong shape in cross section. It has a nice interior though.

Cheers

Andrew

[wbk666]

i was thinking the same, it looks a bit "chubby" around the middle... a bit like me haha

[Chuck E]

Mine looked OK out of the box, though I did replace the radiators with vac formed ones.