I just finished this kit, had so much fun building it I bought the Tally Ho Mk 2 from Eduard

Absolutely brilliant! I'm just about to start this kit and your video is just what the doctor ordered!

6:05 is where I depart. Yes I am old and going blind, but even as a lad with fighter-pilot eyesight some of this is over the top. Note, I'm not saying stop, I'm immersed in watching it.

Thank you. Great vid. Very helpful

I’m a beginner I can tell eduard is very detailed but very demanding to assemble. Tamiya is expensive but a joy to build. I really want the tamiya spitfire ixc 1/32 but wow is it ever $$$$

Thanks for all the specific suggestions.

Thanks for the step by step...

Thank you. Clear video and great tips...! I will use them for my model..thank you very much.

This is going to be awesome!!!!

Nice video and plus one subs. You are spot on with the Sutton Harness as well, the amount of people who put that second 'Y' part on the front on the seat rather than looping it over the seat is amazing. As you said the instructions are not overly helpful here

Enjoyed the build. Thanks

Some of the early Spitfires and Hurricanes used Eau de Nil as an underside colour but I didn't know that it was also used as a cockpit colour. Great video and build. Love it.

Sorry, was saying that I’m building the 80s Dropship, from the Aliens film, and it’s bringing back nightmares of how clunky and difficult the kits were to build back then. We are definitely spoiled today, even if things are slightly wrong in places. I have this kit, mostly for the box art, and look forward to seeing you finish her 👍🏻

Great video looking forward to part 2

Loved the video. Lots of useful information. Those sink marks are puzzling on such a new kit. It is good there are two full kits in the box. One for practice and the other for a good one lol.

Hi, First time I’ve seen you work, love it, great. I really like how you explain everything. I’ve subscribed. 👍🏻

Step-by-step review is very informative-in letting us know what we’re getting into with this Eduard kit. Fits seem to have improved since their polikarpov kit. However, they are still molding small 3D parts flat and letting the builder do all the fiddly construction, and guesswork of what part goes where. Too bad, cause they are offering some truly interesting subject matter.

just bought the Mk I Early, the 2 blade prop

Doing the Eduard Mk XVI and yes concur the cockpit is overly fussy and fiddly, instructions could be clearer. Overall its a nice kit but yeah tolerances are tight and not a beginners model at all.

One area to watch on this kit I found when I was building mine was lining up both wing roots. One side was slightly higher on dry fitting than the other

That early interior green reminds me of the MRP 317 color Italian Verde Anticorrosione (FS34272). In fact, it's almost spot on for what I see on your kit here on my screen.

Subscribed ☺

Humbrol 78 is a interior colour for the WWII RAF.

Great build mate..liked how you kept talking bout the kit goods and bads plus tips on the build.👍

That's "YAHU", for the Instrument Panels- In case any of you are interested...

use alclad matt varnish on the photo etched instrument panel

Humbrol #78 for interiour colour, easy peasy.

Really helpful video, the first I’ve seen of yours and I’ve subscribed. Part of me wishes I’d held off buying this kit as I suspect I’ve fallen for the old Eduard trick of them filling the box of an ok kit with goodies to lure you in. Their Typhoon release of last year was an example of that where they included a wrongly sized seat ! Omitting the later undercart selector on this kit is another own goal . Luckily I had a voucher to spend and I have just got the later Tamiya release of the Mki Spit to go alongside my current build of Tamiyas 1993 Mki . I also like what you did with the interior green colour, I took the easy route and went MRP. Looking forward to the next instalment.

Interested in the seatbelt configuration, like you I struggled to work out how it was configured.

excellent video and very well explianed, quite surprised at Eduard, just wondering that they are so obsessed with surface detail they are letting the fit side of their kits slip?

Obviously, this is going to look amazing when it's finished, and Eduard kits have great detail, so they're really rewarding when you get them right. Trouble is, the Spitfire is going to be a 'bread and butter' kit for any manufacturer - they would expect to sell thousands each year for years to come and the mark 1 leads naturally in to the mark II and mark V, so it would have been nice if they'd made it less fiddly. They do sell resin upgrades for super-detaillers anyway. Or are Brassin kits supposed to make the kits easier to build these days?

Very interesting to someone thinking about building his first kit! Your video highlights why it is a bad idea to get all gung ho and go straight in with an advanced kit. The Tamiya Mk I looks like a much more sensible prospect - again your video makes this clear. Out of interest, have you ever built the 1/48 Tamiya Mk V Spitfire, and if so, any thoughts about that kit vs the Mk I? Thanks for the very informative video!

Good kit with some odd research! The throttle fresh out of the kit has the propeller pitch control; not much use for an aeroplane with a two blade prop! As you rightly say, there were plenty of mk1 aircraft with the automatic selector, and these were retrofitted to some aircraft too. Interior green is a matter of personal taste in many ways. Although there is a specific DTD colour, it’s quite clear that different manufacturers used slightly different colours. They were all green, but there is a LOT of variation. A number of companies use this method of building up the cockpit, but from a scale perspective, it’s massively out of proportion. I think by the time one has attached the side walls to the fuselage halves, they are pretty much the same thickness as the actual aeroplane!

I tend to paint the parts 1st before gluing them like for an actual vehicle assembly. It gets very difficult to paint nooks and corners of small components after assembly.

I’m just in the process of building the Dropship,

Hi Jason Wonderful as always Should you drill out the holes in the bulkhead frame?

Nice video Considering the 'problems' What would be the better kit between Eduard and the Tamiya Spitfire

I like your style of producing your video. I'm slowly coming back into plastic modeling and finally able (as an adult) to focus and really produce the kind of finished models I wanted to achieve in my youth. However, filling seams and sanding steps are still one of my biggest hurdles and fears. I've been devouring KZfaq videos to learn as much as I can before attempting it myself. Do you have, in your video library, a tutorial on how you address those issues? Do you have a direct link you could share to save me the effort of searching for it? Thank you.

Some of the engineering on this is a head scratcher. Only thing I can come up with is, perhaps; ease of manufacture. Also, it wasn't too many years ago that Eduard was just a cottage industry. Maybe some of the slide molding techniques that Tamiya and others use; are beyond what Eduard wishes to do at present. Hard to say. But, you really should not have potholes all over the exhaust manifolds. You just shouldn't.

The photoetch "trigger" on the control column is a break leaver.

Hi Champ, nice clean build and a great review of the kit. I just wanted to ask how long this build took start to finish?

I like Eduard kits very much, but in my opinion the latest Tamiya 1/48 Mk. 1 Spitfire is a much easier build, the parts fit is better and and it’s detailed just as nicely.

You’re a better man than I Jason. Fabulous video and a great build. For me though, Tamiya Mk 1A. I personally wouldn’t go near this one

Which primer did you use?

Can you finish the Henshall truck?

That lever on the control yoke is for the brakes not guns 😊

When I tried joining the fuselage to the wings the fuselage on my model it just wouldn’t fit properly which resulted in gap filling. I followed the eduard instructions closely but I just don’t know what I got wrong.

I think you got part P50 the wrong way round. The pin should be facing out.

7'45" A pistachio green ?

Eduard is very good but their kits tend to be a bit overly complicated. Lots and lots of parts. Guilding the lily? 🤔

Parachute cutting blade ?

Christ. I think I should've bought the Tamiya Mk1.😬

Hmm. Not sure if you have the sutton harness correct. The Y section that you ran over the top of the seat and behind I believe is suppose to go on the front of the seat which is then anchored through the hole in the base of the seat back. I did it this way on my Revell Spitfire and I have also seen pictures of it done this way. Also, you don't have the armoured plate there that was fitted behind the seat. This would also make it impossible to wrap the Y section over top and behind the seat since the armour plate would block it. The revell spit does not have an armour plate so I used the one that came with the barracuda cockpit set. See here: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010794105855

Right, that's it, never mind the optivisor, I'm getting a microscope!!!🥵😫😭

Yes, the construction process for the wheel well was painful and unnecessary.

Video very helpful. Instructions hopeless. So many variations. Your seat belts perfect. Fiddly. Tamiya so much better. Not a good fit in several parts.

s far as "correct" pre-WWI- 1980s colors go, paint technology was anything but an exact science. Keep this in mind when using paint's "straight-out-of-the-bottle". In other words, take paint manufacturers' claims that ONLY THEIR PAINTS are the "correct" shades WITH A BIG GRAIN OF SALT...

If eduard never put botched exhausts in this kit, they would not have people rushing out to buy their resin replacements. A very crappy business practice.