Spitfire Summer

Revell’s Mk IXc

- Gordon Scott

Let’s start with the elephant in the room and ask ‘does the world need another Spitfire when we still haven't got a 1/32 (insert your own choice)?’ Well, Revell seem to think so. In the usual end opening, thin cardboard box we have eleven light grey and three clear sprues and a small decal sheet with two options, one a Canadian squadron plane in ETO colours and the other an aluminum finished RAF aircraft based in Italy.

The kit is covered with delicately engraved panel lines and rivets and the parts are attached to the sprues with large flow gates. Be sure and use cutters or a saw to separate these, and be extra careful as the sprues are very tightly packed, so much so that in some places you can't get sprue cutters in to remove a part and the small size of some of them makes them hard to distinguish from tags. It’s the only time I've been glad the bins are emptied fortnightly as I had to get into the blue one to retrieve parts from a sprue I'd discarded as empty!