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[Closed] I just bought a Supermarine Spitfire Mkla.. OMG

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After 42 years, I've finally got around to it 🙂

Last one a Aldi today.

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/58162507@N07/8291050105/ ]Spitfire[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/58162507@N07/ ]SGMTB[/url], on Flickr


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 6:32 pm
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Cool
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Dont forget to post an update when its built


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 6:43 pm
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That is exactly what hubby did yesterday. He can't wait to put it together over the Christmas holidays.


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 6:44 pm
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[img] [/img] Cool.


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 6:44 pm
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By your command 🙂


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 6:45 pm
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Nice...local toy shop to me (in Stirling) has a 1:24 scale model in the window...very tempted...but doubt I have the patience nowadays!


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 7:08 pm
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I've still got a Wellington and a Heinkel 111 that I must get round to building , I must have bought them around 1978.


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 7:15 pm
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Well, what are the chances?
I bought one about an hour ago too (though not from Aldi, and not for me)

[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevindavitt/8292250924/in/photostream/ ]Spitfire[/url]


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 7:18 pm
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I bought 36 of them.

I've left them in their boxes, buried them and left some vague instructions about where to find them in 60 years time.


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 7:21 pm
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Classic kit! That's the one that James May had a hand in creating a 1:1 version of. Have fun, and be careful not to get glue on the clear canopy! 😀

I've got a kit of the Horton flying-wing jet that I've yet to build. Must get started on it sometime...


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 7:24 pm
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Nice! And makes a change to tractors 😉


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 7:27 pm
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i used to love building those (loved the smell of the airfix paint (that used to come in those tiny tins).i kept sticking my fingers together though 😕


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 7:28 pm
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I've recently bought an F-15E Strike Eagle, F-14A Tomcat and AH-64 Apache all in 1/32 scale and now adding all the photo etched parts and resin parts to my list of things to buy. All ready for next year when not riding lol.


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 8:00 pm
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my 16 month old loves the spitfire and me109 he has dangling from his cealing on fishing wire , ww1 dogfight to be built this holiday . i did the building painting and transfers he does the blowing to make them sway.


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 8:01 pm
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Thanks Matt I have been promising myself that I would get one of those as a distraction from work, just ordered it now.


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 8:10 pm
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We need a photo thread of this years xmas model builds 🙂

@Reluctant
They did have a wooden John Deere that caught my eye 😉


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 8:17 pm
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my one of those is just awaiting its paint!

you might want some fine sandpaper mine needed some tidying to get good fit.

I now have a box set with another mk1a spitfire (or air spitter as my 3 year old calls it), a p51 and a bf109. all destined for an air display in his room and out of his reach otherwise they wont last!


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 8:30 pm
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Just started building the Spitfire to keep these two company!

[img] http://www.flickr.com/photos/66691733@N05/8291394219/ ][img] http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8215/8291394219_ea6e3be329.jp g" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/66691733@N05/8291394219/ ][img] http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8215/8291394219_ea6e3be329.jp g"/> [/img][/url] [url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/66691733@N05/8291394219/ ]2/3's BBMF[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/66691733@N05/ ]dave.w.taylor[/url], on Flickr[/img]


 
Posted : 20/12/2012 8:33 pm
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Video of mk1 refurbed at Duxford


 
Posted : 27/01/2013 8:51 am
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I've got a kit of the Horton flying-wing jet that I've yet to build. Must get started on it sometime...

Now that is a cool plane


 
Posted : 27/01/2013 10:41 am

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