The Unofficial Airfix Modellers' Forum

I gave this one to a fellow modeller who wanted to try building a vacform kit. He gave it back to me recently. He had cut out some of the parts and done some sanding, then decided it was mission impossible or more likely, decided that there were far easier ways to make a model.

It was a fairly straightforward build, i.e. monoplane, inline engine, not many wings, fairly small. I did create a problem by initially making the undercarriage legs too long then needed a pliers and scissors to correct the error. One joy of cheap superglue is that it bonds rather than welds the plastic, so errors can be corrected with a deft snap of the wrist.

There was not much choice of colour schemes. The kit can be built as a Spiteful, but I built one of those in the early 1970s ad still have it. Ony a few Seafangs were built, so it's a choice of dark grey or ...... dark grey. I was initially confused by the sight of a Seafang with Suez stripes, one in Australian markings and even one in Spanish markings, but although these are provided with an injection kit (Trumpeter), they are 'whatifs'. I don't do 'whatifs'. I did not give it any weathering or exhaust stains as their service life was short. It was, as they say, one Spitfire too far.

Very nicely done. Those old Rareplanes are amongst some of the best vacforms I have in the stash. Beautifully moulded and quite detailed for the technology/vintage.

David

I really like the lesser known types that you build from vacforms. Just looking at them it is not possible to see that they are not injection moulded. Shame about the choice of colour schemes, but that could not have been helped.

Nice work Vacant!

Tis a thing of beauty, well done

Regardless of the medium, gotta love a contraprop Spitfire.

Very nice. The poor old Spiteful and Seafang were indeed steps too far for the Spitfire line. Indeed, they tried to take it further with the Attacker which, by all accounts, was a bit of a turd.