I'm pretty sure that a Spitfire, either in 1/72 or 1/48, has become the official right of passage in this hobby

Looks great, who doesn't love a 1/72 spitfire, especially on a sweet diorama base like that.

Built my first Airfix 1/72 Spitfire in 1970. Yours is a diminutive masterpiece.

Many thanks! I've chosen this kit to get back into scale modelling after many decades away. Like the previous poster, I also built my first Airfix kit (a 1/72 Hurricane) in 1970 while living in England. Things have definitely changed in scale modelling, but your video makes it all seem doable!

Hard to believe that my home city designed and manufactured the Spitfire, although you wouldn't know it today! It does contain an aircraft museum, with a Spitfire as its centrepiece (appropriately enough) though. All that aside, this is an excellent finished model and diorama.

So good! Really inspiring. Loved the lighting and photography (cinematography) on the model at the end.

Great, build really like the camel. That's my favorite plain.Can't wait for your next video.Keep up the good work

Hi Brett, lovely model and paint job. The Spitfire seat tubs were an early plastic material, like Bakerlite and were a red/brown colour and not normally painted.

Lovely job! Galaxy riveting tools are very good. Btw Merlin engine exhausts were made of an alloy called Inconel which is oxidation and corrosion resistant. So the discoloration is mostly due to heating and cooling effects and exhaust residue rather than rust.

Good build and paint job of a nice little kit. Bit of info for you, Spitfires had the rivets on the wing surfaces filled in and smoothed over to improve the airflow over the wing so were never visible.

Hello mr. Hammer!boy!thats a lot detail for a 9bucks kit.nicely done handling this ww2 icon.i love watching u detailing up your projects.thank u for delivering fun excitenes and knowledge and Inspiration.i love your narration.its everything but boring.congratulations.with best regards and sticky greetings from Brandenburg/germany.your modellmate.christian

Hi Brett. I have lost count how many Spitfires I have made over the last forty years plus of modelling. But none of them in 1/72 have had this much detail built in. Looks like a lovely little kit and of course you have worked your magic on it to produce a beautiful model, well done. Regards.

Brilliant build! Really enjoyed this video. Many thanks

First the P40 (finishing my own), and now the Spitfire (was debating as my next). Guess I'm just following along at this point! Albeit I've been enjoying posing them 'wheels up'

Beautiful spitfire ❤

what a beautiful job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those Airfix Spitfires and Hurricanes are terrific little kits. I've built a couple in the last two years. You asked about why the harness was done that way, as opposed to traditional shoulder and lap belts. This was called the Sutton harness and the idea behind it was to give the pilot more freedom to look over his shoulders, while holding him in the seat. Don't want the Hun sneaking up on you. The Sutton was used in most British fighters during WW2 and I believe into the early jets like the Meteor and Vampire.

Nice build , but I find that airfixe’s new molds have a very heavy engraving in 1/72 scale . Its easy to find1/72 spits and schmidts with a much more délicate engraving.

Hi Brett, what a lovely little model, very nicely done. I do have to admit that I hadn't even noticed the lack of rivet detail but boy did it make a difference when you added it. Looking forward to your next, regards I....

Outstanding job

Great build, love the base!

amazing repaint

Thanks Bret, looks good.

Really nice. I'm going to have to drag my Airfix Spitfires out of the stash!

Well done mate.

Thats a really nice looking Spit. Such an iconic design........ The gun port patches were primarily there to keep the freezing air out of the gun bays and icing up the .303s, as there was no gun bay heating at first. The camo pattern is interesting; it's kind of half the 'B' pattern scheme with an odd port wing design.... Whatever, I think she looks terrific....... very evocative 👌🏻👏🏻👍🏻

I built the same kit out of the box. Fun little build. Very nice work as usual.

Great build,starting to get into 72nd scale after seeing some of the work that some of y'all modelers done.use to I would not do 72nd scale due to the details in this scale but now wow....

I've always thought Airfix kinda had a THICC problem too, lol. But I have some kits, they look pretty good :)

What ho Brett! Ah, what a thing of beauty the Spitfire is whatever the scale. (I'm still a Hurricane man though). The Air Ministry 1939-45 decreed that the RAF day fighters cockpit would be Interior Grey/Green and camouflage was to be Dark Earth/ Dark Green over Sky Type S and the colours should merge rather than be hard edged. The dark brown was ditched for medium sea grey in 1941. Now then, I recently purchased an Airfix 3,000 piece jigsaw of a Ia in flight DW-K. And inside the box hey presto a 1/72 kit like your video with the DW-K markings. Your 'Spit' unfortunately was shot down in flames and crashed into the sea on the 3rd. September 1940. Pilot Flt. Lt. Richard Hope Hillary (an Australian) baled out and survived but was badly burnt. I know where he went for treatment but this has taken long enough. A great video as ever and my benchmark. I really like your style of narration. Thank you.

Nice build. Just for info. The exhausts did not rust on Spitfires. Also, that’s an interesting camo scheme. I haven’t seen that one before…

One of your best builds and a joy to watch. Really taught me a lot; even after 60 years making models!! Just one question: what’s your paint/thinner ratio for Vallejo paints?

The bit you added to the front of the pilots seat was just a reinforcing box section, the flares were carried in a holder located on the right hand sidewall just under the windscreen, in later marks it was used to carry spare bulbs for the gun sight. Are the upper and lower wing roundels specific to this particular Spitfire, they look to be located too far forward on the wings.

The pilots sitting in chairs thing is 👍

superbe !

I’m about to start on a f15 d day invasion anniversary model kit but this was a good vid

Amazing work in 1/72 nd scale,as I expected,as all your 1/72nd are better than any of my 1/48th… And I just picked up Trumpeters 1/32nd SU-25UB,so if you have any tips,that would be helpful,and good luck with whatever project you are doing right now!

Great build and painting of the 1/72 Spitfire. May I suggest getting a proper riveting tool next time because these rivets look a bit out of scale.

Oh yeah, the quality of the rivet tool is very important, as I found out the hard way. The trumpeter riveting tool is terrible, I couldn't even see where I was going. I then tried an unbranded tool that looked similar to yours, but it literally broke apart after 10 minutes. Unfortunately 'Rosie the Riveter' is not available anymore...so I'm unsure which one to get.

That vac canopy might have been intended for the older 1/72 Airfix Spitfire. That could have been why it didn't fit. You mentioned filling with super glue. Have you ever tried any of the black, flexible superglue?

Pity about the vacform canopy not fitting. It's a bug bear of mine with these kits at this scale

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Is this the same airfix kit James May made a 1/1 kut of?

Keeps bugs out of the guns as well

hello :) afther 4 months i am now building models too :) and wath a funn and a cure for your soule !. 1. Avro Anson mk 1 1:47 th 2. Bristol beafort mk1 1:72 / 3. is now the Heinkel 111- hp.2 my next wo is alredy in the storage is the Eduard Bf 109 e-4 i Lov it such a amzing nice hobby. thank you for the phusch. :)

Good stuff. What were the roundel masks called again?