I was luckily enough to acquire all three 1/32 Spitfire kits. All beautiful kits, I just have a few others too finish first. I'm hoping a 1/32 P-47 from Tamiya is out soon. Good luck with yours.
Great review Paul! This is my favourite kit, I've had it in my stash for about 3 years now and I simply can't believe the detail on it every time I open the box and admire it's contents, stunning in my book. I know that the new ones are even better, but back when this came out the quality was unbelievable.
I can't wait to watch you build it! I'm thoroughly scared of building my spitfire, I'll have to take your teachings and build a few other models before tackling that one. :s
Its something Magical...watching that beautiful bird flying, it's amazing feel those round wings cutting the air as hot butter....I got an edurad 1:48 Spit XIc american one in Afrika quite beautuful to build!!!
Made this kit about 2 years ago. Probably the best Spit kit out there. Its beautiful. The Canadian maple leaf pic is in the big colour spread sheet detail. Its from Johnny Johnsons outfit (JE-J). Yes I bet you know how haha, but he was the Englishman commanding them :) PS: Im so jelly of your work station!
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 19 July, 2024) Thank you so much for showing us round, mate! This kit and your enthusiasm are so infectious you both have even this skinny, long-legged, quick-footed Yank (181 cm, 51 kg) keen for battle! I must admit to being curious about this kit and Airfix’s 1:24th-scale kit of the Supermarine Spitfire RAF Mk.IX Fighter. Are they faithful replicas of the same aircraft? Similarly, does Tamiya make a 1:48th-scale kit of this æroplane? If not, do any other kit-maker? The same question regarding a 1:72nd-scale kit of it? I ask because my hope eventually would be to form of them a forced perspective airborne diorama in echelon at 6,000 metres, all of the same mark, squadron markings, camouflage, etc., just as they espy a few thousand metres below a band of black-hearted Nazi vultures in Luftwaffe greens and greys. Or perhaps these doughty sky-knights of Old Albion, mounted upon their swift, graceful, winged thoroughbreds, already have entered a steep dive, their 20mm talons raking the backs of these predatory invaders . . . !
If you were lucky enough to purchase the Mk.8 the kit even came with a mouse that matched the box art. Tamiya thinks of everything. They do have a fantastic customer support group, will replace anything that is missing, or what you might lose.
i give this kit a near perfect score plenty of detail and realism most of the cockpit detail his hidden after assembly the let down for me was the quality of the decals every decal on my sheet either split or wouldnt conform to panel molding or leading edges of wings even with micro sol So I continued on painting most of the decals $130 kit only to be let down at the end by a sheet of feeble decals..
How about occasionally updating your videos.This one according to UA-cam is now ten years old. I bought the Mk. IXc kit just over a week ago and have since watched a before and after review video by someone who built the kit. If I had known before I bought the kit, the issues with it. I probably would not have bought it. The elephant in the room for me is open gun bays but no internal details and no guns. Apparently there are also issues with the quality of the decals and the photoetch and with the fit of some of the smaller kit parts. I am not looking for perfection but if a manufacturer expects me to pay over a hundred pounds for a kit I expect that kit to be as good as it possibly can be. I don’t want to buy the kit and then find I have to spend another forty or fifty pounds to put right what the manufacture cut corners on.
@@InternationalScaleModeller HI, I wasn't meaning to have a go at you personally. I bought the kit on the basis of watching and reading a number of reviews including your own . I then found out there are a couple of issues with the kit . The quality of the photo etch for one and the decals are apparently a bit thick . I just think that it would be helpful if more individuals like yourself occasionally did an after build review, high lighting how well the build went and if you had any issues with building the kit. Best regards, Eric.
I get what you mean but I never got round to building this sadly I sold all my aircraft at one lobby so have non idea how it builds up :) impishly build cars now :)
WOW! That has too suck! Tamiya USA in Cali has never let me down, as I stated even if I lose a part they have replaced the piece at no charge. Wonder if Tamiya knows how bad they are.
I'm droolin... someone get a mop! You're right to wonder about Tamiya and their armour kits. I can't imagine how much they'd charge for an armour kit with this level of treatment. Great review of a hell of a kit Paul.
Yeah if tamiya could do this with armour kits wow they would be out of this world, but they don't so where stuck with crappy vinyl tracks and flimsy fake net mesh, with no PE lol
I just notice the price you put up on this vid for this kit, HOLY MUD HEAD MACKEREL! What I paid for mine was far less. I guess I owe the owner of my local hobby store a steak dinner. Took your advice on the Iwata. THANKS!
why donnt you check out the accuracy of the kit before you make a video?,i have seen this several times.when you make lovely end products,but your reviews seem to miss fundamental bits such as worng dials for the instrument panels and carb fuel lines,or the first time manufactures have made a p51 wheel bay accurate in any wayshape or form? forgive my English,dont know much about modelling but I read as much as I can about a subject before I build it.just trying to be constructive .
Thats will be because A) I'm not a rivet counter so if somethings not quite right its not the end of the world to me and B) i like to review kits without seeing other reviews.
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Tuesday, 13 August, 2024) (EDITED, with new content) Round 2:00 of your video, I initially had thought I was watching a scene from Foyle’s War (BBC), starring Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, er al. That, as I recall, was an early Spitfire (my guess a Mk.Ia, or perhaps a Mk.Vb). At 8:30, you query about a pair of parts that from their overall size and shape look to be portions of the fuselage; perhaps the engine covers. Could they (as I surmise) be alternate tail wheel housing parts for a Spitfire Mk.VIII? I had been watching build videos of Airfix’s 1:24th-scale kit of the Supermarine Spitfire RAF Mk.IXc Fighter. The Spitfire is a sleek, relatively modest-sized, racing thoroughbred of an æroplane. However, in comparison to its bigger iteration, it looks distinctly diminutive. That most assuredly is not to diminish it: I am by far the oldest, yet the runt of the litter, in a brood of comparable giants. The Tamiya kit’s detailing of individual parts-from what I in just the past minute or two have seen here, those comprising the pilot’s seat immediately come to mind-tell me all over again of the jaw-dropping (gob smacked?) awe that these peerless paragons of excellence repeatedly over the decades have brought forth to us. Yes, I give Airfix high marks for their recent efforts to improve their offerings; their kits, especially of larger subjects, of late are a quantum leap better than anything even just a generation prior. They have their place round the middle of the pack, with the bulk of the majority, most of the lot of them rather well behind Tamiya. At 12:20 and 14:20, you remind me of the Chance Vought F4U-1/2 Corsair USN/USMC/FAA Fighter series, which represent perhaps my most favourite combat aircraft, and my most enjoyable kit manufacturer. I would like to see a build project of all six variants: an F4U-1, an F4U-2 night fighter, an F4U-1A, an F4U-1D, an F4U-1C, from another F4U-1D kit, supplanting its six M2 Browning 0.50-calibre machine-guns with four M3 Browning 20mm cannons; see Bert Kinzey’s monograph, F4U Corsair fighter Detail & Scale, Vol 1. (Carrollton, TX USA: Squadron-Signal Publications), and the British Navy Fleet Air Arm F4Us that saw actual combat (e.g., a Corsair IV, from an F4U-1D). I also would like a 1:32nd-scale kit of the Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair USN carrier-based fighter-interceptor, though Trumpeter makes this one.
I was luckily enough to acquire all three 1/32 Spitfire kits. All beautiful kits, I just have a few others too finish first. I'm hoping a 1/32 P-47 from Tamiya is out soon. Good luck with yours.
Yeah p-47 would be nice :)
Great review Paul! This is my favourite kit, I've had it in my stash for about 3 years now and I simply can't believe the detail on it every time I open the box and admire it's contents, stunning in my book. I know that the new ones are even better, but back when this came out the quality was unbelievable.
Cheers Carlos, my fav 1/32tamiya is the mustang and I'm looking forward to building that in the next couple months.
I can't wait to watch you build it! I'm thoroughly scared of building my spitfire, I'll have to take your teachings and build a few other models before tackling that one. :s
Its something Magical...watching that beautiful bird flying, it's amazing feel those round wings cutting the air as hot butter....I got an edurad 1:48 Spit XIc american one in Afrika quite beautuful to build!!!
Fantastic review. Looks an awesome kit. Think I gonna have to flash my lashes at the wife to get it me.
Is this gonna be a video build Paul?
Made this kit about 2 years ago. Probably the best Spit kit out there. Its beautiful. The Canadian maple leaf pic is in the big colour spread sheet detail. Its from Johnny Johnsons outfit (JE-J). Yes I bet you know how haha, but he was the Englishman commanding them :)
PS: Im so jelly of your work station!
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 19 July, 2024)
Thank you so much for showing us round, mate! This kit and your enthusiasm are so infectious you both have even this skinny, long-legged, quick-footed Yank (181 cm, 51 kg) keen for battle!
I must admit to being curious about this kit and Airfix’s 1:24th-scale kit of the Supermarine Spitfire RAF Mk.IX Fighter. Are they faithful replicas of the same aircraft? Similarly, does Tamiya make a 1:48th-scale kit of this æroplane? If not, do any other kit-maker? The same question regarding a 1:72nd-scale kit of it?
I ask because my hope eventually would be to form of them a forced perspective airborne diorama in echelon at 6,000 metres, all of the same mark, squadron markings, camouflage, etc., just as they espy a few thousand metres below a band of black-hearted Nazi vultures in Luftwaffe greens and greys. Or perhaps these doughty sky-knights of Old Albion, mounted upon their swift, graceful, winged thoroughbreds, already have entered a steep dive, their 20mm talons raking the backs of these predatory invaders . . . !
If you were lucky enough to purchase the Mk.8 the kit even came with a mouse that matched the box art. Tamiya thinks of everything. They do have a fantastic customer support group, will replace anything that is missing, or what you might lose.
My dealings with the UK tamiya supplier The Hobby Company are not good, i enquired about some spare parts and they didn't even get back to me.
i give this kit a near perfect score
plenty of detail and realism
most of the cockpit detail his hidden after assembly
the let down for me was the quality of the decals
every decal on my sheet either split or wouldnt conform to panel molding or leading edges of wings even with micro sol
So I continued on painting most of the decals
$130 kit only to be let down at the end by a sheet of feeble decals..
Nice one Paul, good to see the old bird in component form - this was the kit I started back in the hobby with!
And what a kit to start with, looking forward to this myself, I've also got the Mk XVI too :)
fabulous review
Very good review mate.....bit jealous now....you got it....I dont...hahahhahaha. Superb kit! Bet the build will be a lot of fun!
Cheers buddy :)
Ah, the Spitfire, the best WWII plane of all time in my opinion, even over the Corsair and the Mustang.
At Allied side 😉
How about occasionally updating your videos.This one according to UA-cam is now ten years old. I bought the Mk. IXc kit just over a week ago and have since watched a before and after review video by someone who built the kit. If I had known before I bought the kit, the issues with it. I probably would not have bought it. The elephant in the room for me is open gun bays but no internal details and no guns. Apparently there are also issues with the quality of the decals and the photoetch and with the fit of some of the smaller kit parts. I am not looking for perfection but if a manufacturer expects me to pay over a hundred pounds for a kit I expect that kit to be as good as it possibly can be. I don’t want to buy the kit and then find I have to spend another forty or fifty pounds to put right what the manufacture cut corners on.
How do you want it updating. In what way.
@@InternationalScaleModeller HI, I wasn't meaning to have a go at you personally. I bought the kit on the basis of watching and reading a number of reviews including your own . I then found out there are a couple of issues with the kit . The quality of the photo etch for one and the decals are apparently a bit thick . I just think that it would be helpful if more individuals like yourself occasionally did an after build review, high lighting how well the build went and if you had any issues with building the kit.
Best regards,
Eric.
I get what you mean but I never got round to building this sadly I sold all my aircraft at one lobby so have non idea how it builds up :) impishly build cars now :)
@@InternationalScaleModeller No Problem.
I wonder what it costs 6 years later.
It’s about the same Ian if anything it’ll be a tad cheaper now
@@InternationalScaleModeller Thank you, I don’t think I’d shell out that kind of money although it looks a fantastic kit.
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WOW! That has too suck! Tamiya USA in Cali has never let me down, as I stated even if I lose a part they have replaced the piece at no charge. Wonder if Tamiya knows how bad they are.
Yeah just a bit Bob :(
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That is one Awesome Kit !
That it is Norm :)
Always loved the design of the Spitfire, one of my favourite Allied aircraft and the Mk IX especially so !
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As a Yank, I in all fairness must give the Spitfire First Place in aesthetic appearance, as well as formidability and determination to match!
I'm droolin... someone get a mop!
You're right to wonder about Tamiya and their armour kits. I can't imagine how much they'd charge for an armour kit with this level of treatment.
Great review of a hell of a kit Paul.
Yeah if tamiya could do this with armour kits wow they would be out of this world, but they don't so where stuck with crappy vinyl tracks and flimsy fake net mesh, with no PE lol
that looks like a very nice kit actually.
Lotta details
Its a beauty :)
Fantastic review. Looks an awesome kit. Think I gonna have to flash my lashes at the wife to get it me.
Is this gonna be a video build Paul?
Nice!
I just notice the price you put up on this vid for this kit, HOLY MUD HEAD MACKEREL! What I paid for mine was far less. I guess I owe the owner of my local hobby store a steak dinner. Took your advice on the Iwata. THANKS!
I paid £100 for this myself, the iwata are good airbrushes :)
Paul,what is the music,starting from 3:10?
Anyone? :-)
why donnt you check out the accuracy of the kit before you make a video?,i have seen this several times.when you make lovely end products,but your reviews seem to miss fundamental bits such as worng dials for the instrument panels and carb fuel lines,or the first time manufactures have made a p51 wheel bay accurate in any wayshape or form?
forgive my English,dont know much about modelling but I read as much as I can about a subject before I build it.just trying to be constructive
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Thats will be because A) I'm not a rivet counter so if somethings not quite right its not the end of the world to me and B) i like to review kits without seeing other reviews.
An unbeliveable Kit but i am happy with my hobby Boss also
Yes a very good kit, Thanks for watching and commenting - Paul :)
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Tuesday, 13 August, 2024)
(EDITED, with new content)
Round 2:00 of your video, I initially had thought I was watching a scene from Foyle’s War (BBC), starring Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, er al. That, as I recall, was an early Spitfire (my guess a Mk.Ia, or perhaps a Mk.Vb).
At 8:30, you query about a pair of parts that from their overall size and shape look to be portions of the fuselage; perhaps the engine covers. Could they (as I surmise) be alternate tail wheel housing parts for a Spitfire Mk.VIII?
I had been watching build videos of Airfix’s 1:24th-scale kit of the Supermarine Spitfire RAF Mk.IXc Fighter. The Spitfire is a sleek, relatively modest-sized, racing thoroughbred of an æroplane. However, in comparison to its bigger iteration, it looks distinctly diminutive. That most assuredly is not to diminish it: I am by far the oldest, yet the runt of the litter, in a brood of comparable giants.
The Tamiya kit’s detailing of individual parts-from what I in just the past minute or two have seen here, those comprising the pilot’s seat immediately come to mind-tell me all over again of the jaw-dropping (gob smacked?) awe that these peerless paragons of excellence repeatedly over the decades have brought forth to us. Yes, I give Airfix high marks for their recent efforts to improve their offerings; their kits, especially of larger subjects, of late are a quantum leap better than anything even just a generation prior. They have their place round the middle of the pack, with the bulk of the majority, most of the lot of them rather well behind Tamiya. At 12:20 and 14:20, you remind me of the Chance Vought F4U-1/2 Corsair USN/USMC/FAA Fighter series, which represent perhaps my most favourite combat aircraft, and my most enjoyable kit manufacturer. I would like to see a build project of all six variants: an F4U-1, an F4U-2 night fighter, an F4U-1A, an F4U-1D, an F4U-1C, from another F4U-1D kit, supplanting its six M2 Browning 0.50-calibre machine-guns with four M3 Browning 20mm cannons; see Bert Kinzey’s monograph, F4U Corsair fighter Detail & Scale, Vol 1. (Carrollton, TX USA: Squadron-Signal Publications), and the British Navy Fleet Air Arm F4Us that saw actual combat (e.g., a Corsair IV, from an F4U-1D).
I also would like a 1:32nd-scale kit of the Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair USN carrier-based fighter-interceptor, though Trumpeter makes this one.