Build the spitfire

[Sway]

Had a search, but couldn't find anything on this.

DeAgostini's latest, a wood and aluminium spitfire partwork, 28 quid a month for 32 months...

I love spits, and would love a large scale model of one, but acknowledge my plastic kit modelling skills aren't up to it. This seems both easier and 'nicer' - looks great in raw ally...

Any views?

[Eric Mc]

Don't.

It won't be easier than a plastic kit and it it will be way, way, way more expensive.

[dr_gn]

Sway said:

Had a search, but couldn't find anything on this.

DeAgostini's latest, a wood and aluminium spitfire partwork, 28 quid a month for 32 months...

I love spits, and would love a large scale model of one, but acknowledge my plastic kit modelling skills aren't up to it. This seems both easier and 'nicer' - looks great in raw ally...

Any views?

Just do a Google search for DeAgostini Spitfire

http://spitfire.model-space.com/

From the images it looks absolutely, unfogivably atrocious, especially considering the 1:12 scale.

I've done way, way better than what's in those images in 1:72, and for that kind of money (£896!) so could you, even if it meant practicing on 80-odd 1:72 scale models beforehand.

[Sway]

dr_gn said:

Just do a Google search for DeAgostini Spitfire

http://spitfire.model-space.com/

From the images it looks absolutely, unfogivably atrocious, especially considering the 1:12 scale.

I've done way, way better than what's in those images in 1:72, and for that kind of money (£896!) so could you, even if it meant practicing on 80-odd 1:72 scale models beforehand.

I meant on here! Seen all the marketing blurb...

Thanks for your views though, exactly what I was looking for. Seems a massive shame that more effort isn't put in considering the cost. I would happily have paid up if I'd have a decent chance of building something to keep for a very long time...

[Eric Mc]

Look at the more normal scale model Spitfires out there and look at buying one of them. The Spitfire is not exactly underkitted.

[dr_gn]

Sway said:

dr_gn said:

Just do a Google search for DeAgostini Spitfire

http://spitfire.model-space.com/

From the images it looks absolutely, unfogivably atrocious, especially considering the 1:12 scale.

I've done way, way better than what's in those images in 1:72, and for that kind of money (£896!) so could you, even if it meant practicing on 80-odd 1:72 scale models beforehand.

I meant on here! Seen all the marketing blurb...

Thanks for your views though, exactly what I was looking for. Seems a massive shame that more effort isn't put in considering the cost. I would happily have paid up if I'd have a decent chance of building something to keep for a very long time...

Tamiya do a really good range of 1:32 Spitfires, and Airfix do a fairly crude 1:24 scale version, but even that would look better than the DeAgostini thing. If you were seriously thinking of spending that much, you could do much worse than buying a Tamiya version and seeing how it goes. If you really don't want to get into plastic modelling, but like aircraft in general How about one of these beauties:

http://www.ministeam.com/acatalog/info-IMCTH-Zero....

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&...

They do a P51 Mustang too.

[Eric Mc]

The Tamiya 1/32 Spitfire is lovely.

[dr_gn]

Strange how you can buy a 1:16 Mitsubishi Zero from them, which looks infinitely better than the Spitfire, for about £100 less

http://www.model-space.com/gb/military/mitsubishi-...

It almost looks like the one I linked to previously (which is about £350 btw), but the Deaga-whatever version is twice as large.

http://www.hiroboy.com/catalog/product_info.php?pr...

What's that all about?

[Yertis]

The video on the promo site for this model is fun

[dr_gn]

Yertis said:

The video on the promo site for this model is fun

Why were the wings 'infamous'?

Must have taken a big effort to get that fuselage shape so wrong.

[Evangelion]

Yes I'm afraid that looks really horrible.