Reginald Joseph Mitchell was born in Butt Lane (village) Talke, Staffordshire…in a terrace house right opposite my dentist’s front door …every time I exit from my dentist my eye is drawn to the blue commemoration plaque on the house wall as a constant reminder ( after being drilled) …things could have been far worse..RIP Reggie…

Looks like Airfix really thought of everything when it came to designing this model. I'm impressed with the standard of the fit!

The Merlin engine detailing looks insane. Really impressive stuff. Loved the building and painting. Thanks for sharing your build with us.

CONSTRUCTIVELY: "Throttle" - that was the "Chassis" (undercarriage) control on the right side of the cockpit. The Throttle and Prop control was the similar sized bit left side (you didn't show) Compass - yes - that was the compass. It's a seay grey color in real life in the green metal bracket. "Thick" seatbelts. The Sutton Harness IS "chunky" in real life. Heavily woven jute type material. Airfix actually got this correct. "Tail pieces" I'm sure to allow for later mark Spitfires where the tail wheel also retracted. "Wing Formers" - they are "Ribs" "Landing Light in the wing" - no. Gun Camera window. The Mk IX didn't have landing lights (which were originally on flaps under the wings which opened on the earliest marks only). Radiators "Main sort of jig". That's no jig! That is the actual radiator core. Like the ribbed/finned part in a car. "Invasion stripes". Hand brush applied in the middle of the night prior to D-Day - in real life they were NEVER as "perfect" as they appear on models. Not to say the fitters were not trying to be neat - but they were not using masking tape! "Fuel Tank place where fuel goes". That's the oil tank. "Turbo" = that is the Supercharger. "Intake system" - carburettor and air inlet. "Wire fuel injector system". Spark Plug leads. "Other set of wires" - More - Spark Plug leads. Chin Tank - Oil tank It IS a firewall. You keep calling it a "frame". It's the Engine mount/bearers "Shock Absorber" - well yes - that's what it does but it's an "Oleo Strut" "Gear Cover" - "Gear Door" Chipping Effect on "nose" (actually a "spinner"). IMO everyone completely over does this. It should be much more like very small scratches around the back edge at the fasteners that keep the spinner on. Ammunition in the gun bay. The ammo was brass and lead colored - not steel. Exhaust stubs. They go "blued" / rusty metal quite quickly. Again - all meant CONSTRUCTIVELY.

Excellent as always. The attention to detail is phenomenal. I wish I had a video like yours for my miniature houses !

Nice concise and informative build, can't wait to start on mine in a few weeks, old nigel had me sweating with his build, but you've built my hopes up again. great work thanks

Well done on a top notch build, currently building it myself and finding your video extremely helpful. Cheers from Melbourne Australia

Looks great, thanks for sharing the build process with us

Really am thinking of taking up model building again after seeing this. I've built many an Airfix kit over the years, but drifted away from it for some reason. The finished build in this video has really ignited my interest again. Absolutely absorbing.

Cracking. My first model was an Airfix Bf110 in 1972. I sat on the front door step and made it in one go. I think Airfix had a 1:24 scale Spitfire Mk1 then. I haven't made a model now for 40 years. I would like to start again and make something like this in a few years when I retire and have time.

Amazing video. I have never watched more than a 20min video I think, and I was enthralled right through the whole build. I am back into modelling after a long break, and I will be going through your catalogue of vids to try and get me up to speed. Thank you

Excellent work mate, i look forward to watching more of your builds 👍🏻

Great video Gary! Thanks for sharing. 😎🇨🇦

I like this fighter plane wonderful work on model on all the parts. Detailed cockpit & gun bays in the wings. 👍🤗😁😀❤️💘

Turbo supercharger on the Merlin. You guessed it right. By today’s nomenclature turbo’s are exhaust-driven, and super’s are gear/belt driven, but at the time, both were commonly referred to as superchargers. Incredible detail in the kit, and incredible work getting it all together. I learned a bunch just watching.

Belated Merry Christmas and a happy healthy and prosperous New year to you and your family. Brilliant work.

Just stumbled across your channel the other day and Im working my way back through all your vids. Great work! and I love the way its put together, I can pop these on in the background while working and because of the way you edit Im always clear what products you are applying etc

Thank you for your acknowledgement.

Just watched your video. Incredible job,lovely work. Might be my next purchase. Thanks!

Fantastic model, looks amazing. If only all their models were that good. The 1:48 Mk1 Spit I have just done was so thin you could almost see through teh plastic.

Great build and very nice work! 👍😊.

Nice work. *congrats on 500 subs!

I’ve built the last 1/24 spitfire she was definitely a challenge with fitting part….love to try this newly tooled version.

My kit will be here on the 10th of January just 4 days before my 70th birthday. This will be a nice birthday present for me

Excellent build - very inspiring

beautiful model. congratulations for the build

A thought about leather seat-backs: the most wear would be in locations where the pilot's strapping for his parachute, etc., would rub, and likely the rub would be directional, i.e., as the pilot moves side-to-side looking round the sky.

Nicely done! Don’t worry about the names of things, I build a lot of ship models and still call the front of the ship the pointy end. The 1/32 Tamiya kits have the same issue with the engine mount, those curvy things require a lot of trial and error. Thanks for a very entertaining build.

BRILLIANT ! Love it.

Shared this build all over social media for you matey.. great build

My other half bought me this kit for Xmas I love it I am a bit frightened to start it so your video is excellent love it

Wow! You are very talented - much better than my first attempt at the Mk1a when I was a wee lad. Your video is like a Christmas present to all of us. This is my next model for sure. It is so detailed and wonderful. Yes, the front part of the engine, is the assembly for the new two-stage supercharger (with huge air ducts!) of the Merlin 66 or Merlin 70 (Spring 1944) At mid to higher altitude, it was the apex predator or the skies. If I may request, eventually could you tackle a FR1 Sea Harrier? The version with the nice bubble canopy. Before I build it, I would like to follow your guidance. Cheers mate!

Brilliant! ..Subscribed!

Nice build and some good tips along the way. Fit looks good and maybe that's a result of the Airfix manufacturing of this kit in the UK. Agree about the seat belts - the thickness makes them look toy-like and look forward to some after market belts in photo etch or even fabric in this scale.

Yes, I do like the finished model.....great job. It is a beast of a plane so it must take up a fair amount of space where ever you've displayed it. This is the fourth build on your channel I've watched and your skills all round have shown an improvement. I should watch your latest video to see where you're at now :).......no doubting your ability for sure!

I'm watching this as im ill and it's so relaxing and absolutely loved the building process of this iv only done 3 scale model and got 2 more to start and finish then I want to get this set

Citadel contrast leather , superb !

Fantastic work!!!.

Very nice video I like that you don't hide your mistakes Subbed you up and looking forward to the next vid 😀

You’ve made a great job of that fantastic video 👍

Brilliant build Beautiful airframe

I love watching your videos when I make my own models

Wonderful. I did the original Airfix 1/24 Spitfire, the Mk1, almost 50 years ago. Was it really that long ago? The change in quality of the kits and the ancillary products and tools is phenomenal. I feel like someone who thought they were good watching a Rembrandt’s being produced and realising they did paint-by-numbers in comparison.

A beautiful model and amazing detail which is a credit to your skill and building expertise. I'll certainly be hunting this model kit down for a winter build project. Wishing you a very happy and healthy New Year. What's the next project please?

Very much enjoyed,subbed

The 2 pointy things at 40 mins 30 seconds are the drives for the camshafts.

The 'big lump' of equipment at the back of the engine is the supercharger. The fuel was metered into this and then the fuel/air mixture was directed to each of the cylinders. None of the Merlins or the Griffins used on the later versions used fuel injection

Turned out really nice.

Nice video. I had no problems watching what’s so ever.

Impressive, nice build.

Great work, was thinking of picking this one up but at the same time I’m currently almost done with their 1/24 scale F6F and that thing makes me want to never touch an air fix kit again with how many fitting issues I had with it

Excellent video. Very informative. Just one thing I would like to mention and that is the propellor is made of wood not metal. This will have an effect on how you weather it. David, Neath.

Very nice video. Great model. Greetings, Aleš 🙂👍

Great model. in around min 22 i seen that warthunder video and i cant hide from rhe snail.he's everywhere.

I would have liked to see the brass on the bullet casings. A bright bit of tinsel but we seem to enjoy the glitter of things. Loved watching the detail assemblies come together. The engine is the real highlight for me. I'd almost tempted to build the engine and throw the rest of the kit away. ;)

Lovely aircraft nice build . Steve U.K. All the best .

Excellent video 👍

Fantastic

Beautiful ..

Hiya, just found your channel/subbed! Great build. I have just got the Airfix modelling guide for this amazing kit. Something I've never tried (as I don't know the best method) masking. How do you mask up the body of the plane to get the duck egg on the underside and the camo etc on the upper side so neatly delineated? Could you maybe do a masking vid sometime? Cheers and all the best for 2023.

Interesting build as a complete build as opposed to others showing many part builds 👌😎🥓 Fred ps mine still lives in the box 😮 pps wow so many subscribers and only joined in October 👍🏻

Cheers mate nice 👍🙂💯🇬🇧

Well done love

please look into the story of the mk iX supercharger. The work of Sir Stanley Hooker is fascinating. You'll be glad you did!

One tip when masking is to spray the base color if a single color or some clear to seal the edges of the masking tape. Then you can spray the final color.

I so would love to build this kit. Several, actually. The level of detailing veritably cries out to have the cockpit, the gun bays, the engine compartment, etc., open to view as much as possible. To facilitate the verisimilitude, I would have modest amounts of battle damage in the process of repair or replacement. Preisser (Germany) offers 1:25th-scale figures to populate the tableau with the appropriate work crew. These are nude, requiring full dress; this lends itself to one fashioning the specialised garb suitable to the scene. If one is recreating a North African campaign, one could have the chaps who for the heat have dispensed with their shirts. At 4:04, you mention your preference for a look that is "lived in but not grimy". Quite so, mate! I know just what you mean. It is as I would have it, as well. At 38:53, you commence work upon the Rolls Royce Merlin V-14 engine. In a ground display with many of the access panels open to reveal the interior, I would have a team of hardly blokes drawing forth from the nose the aircraft's rather worn, damaged engine; some of the forward fuselage parts would have a few rough holes to show for it. I then would borrow the assembled Merlin from a second kit (this one I would build in flight) to dramatise an exchange for a clean, new one. One might have to cast resin duplicates for a few of the engine parts for use in this second project. For that matter, the airborne model would require a pilot; I am confident, however, that one of the Preisser lads gladly would step forward.

At 42.36 those are the spark plug leads.They run inside protective sleeves.

Super! ❤

Great video. Super Charger I believe, was at the Spitfire Heritage hanger last week and saw several Merlin's

Awsome

Luke you have done a wonderful job hope you have a lovely christmas and new year cant wait to see the f-35b on hear ❤️❤️❤️

Round section at rear or the Merlin60 is not turbo, but a two stage supercharger. An SC compreses air going in. A turbo uses exhaust gas to then boost air intake

Could you please write down the name of the glue, you use, and all the equipment you used to make your models, and esp where you got them?

Fantastic build.. i kinda hope airfix just release the cockpit and engine as a standalone kit.. love the detail.. do you think you could get the same just brush painting.. will be visiting again see what else you do..defo worth a sub.. 👍👍

lots of cutaways of two stage Merlins on line your "fuel tank" is a coolant header tank, the chin tank is the oil great build by the way

The camouflage colours should be painted in the sequence of ocean grey and then dark green. The full sized aircraft were painted this way using a reusable mat to mask the base colour. Aircraft repainted in service had the camouflage pattern drawn onto the primed surface with chalk and the first colour (ocean grey) sprayed on following the pattern and then the dark green applied freehand without masking.

Fabulous model and beautifully built . I go back to the first Airfix plastic kit . The grey Ferguson tractor , and have deviated through most makes and subjects . Most recently I gave-in and got a couple of Airfix 00 gauge locomotive kits really inexpensive . Originally released in 1959 by Rosebud Kitmaster but shortly after by Airfix the moulding is exquisite . A little while back I got a couple of Hawks' 'Silly Surfers' . The first is " Makin' the Scene with a Six-Pack" . (Far-out ,daddio !). Just a thought . Have you seen the Molotow Liquid Chrome pens ? They're great for undercarriage 'oleos' and mirrors like the one on your Spit . All the best , young man . Pete

Nice build log, it gives a good impression of what to expect. Btw, at 59:06, shouldn't the pipe be connected to the glycol tank? It seems like they are currently not attached to each other...

I use Mission Model paints for all my builds it is more expensive but the end product is amazing. In all my years of model building since 1964 I have never built a Spitfire but seeing this kit and how well it turned out I will pick this kit up and give it a go. The kit is very well detailed and fits together quite well. Job well done Simply Amazing this deserves a Subscribe.

I really love your talent of model building. Can I ask please what is the airbrush and compressor are you using as I need to purchase a set up. Thankyou

It's a great pity that Airfix don't include a figure: that would be the icing on the cake. Because it's a great model, expertly made. 🛩🛩🛩👍👍👍

Love Spitfires awesome war planes, besides Belgian air force & Swedish Air force, & the U.S. Navy. There was a Luftwaffe captured spitfire when the Germans captured their own aircraft.

That’s a big spitfire but it looks very good (it should be in a museum).

49:28 OMG how i Love this Modell Details :D i was alweys a model lover tats super amazing hobby.

Awesome build by the way

Looks great, my man, although the chipping fluid caused crazing on the prop. I've never used it - always do it with a sponge and/or brush.

Awesome video Mate. But I was cracking up watching you build the Merlin. Famously, one of the advantages the Meshersmit had over the Spitfire was that it was fuel injected and the Spitfire which wasn't would starve for fuel in a climb. What you thought were fuel injection lines were ignition lines.

Awesome model.

HELP A born again modeler here! Last built kits when I was about 13. I'm now a Retired 65 year old who has completed a few builds plus I mastered Air brushing too but now for my plea for help!.... Gluing ready painted parts? Such as brush painted cockpit details (Painted on the Sprue) how did you glue these to the 'cockpit green' sprayed interior panels? I've experimented after watching various build videos but if i glue (mainly use Tamiya extra thin) 2 painted parts together ( I mainly use Vallejo acrylics) all I end up with is a slimy multi colored mess that doesnt seem to hold? So here I am with my Xmas present, the ubiquitous Airfix 1/24 Spitfire Mk IXc and I want to try and understand HOW TO ACCOMPLISH THIS 'DARK MAGIC ! before I start! Brilliant Video, as usual!

I am currently building mine. Must've had a bad batch lol, I had no end of fitment issues from the fuselage to the engine bloc/cowling. Unfortunate for such an expensive kit, but some putty should hopefully fix the gaps 😬

Just saw your video, nice work. Only one thing, making the pre shading with the camo colours it's not a Spanish technique, it's a Portuguese one 😉. You should try it, no black bases, only paint over plastic. Keep the good work.

This came out beautiful and your video was equally great as well! Does the kit come with the cowling panels to cover up the Merlin and it’s cradle? I’d like to build it with them being removable I wouldn’t want to permanently cover up all that detail. Thanks to anybody who can answer!

Im sure someone mentioned it already; The engine part you said you didn't know what it was, was the impeller or supercharger. You were close when you said it looked like a turbo

Lovely video. Quick question did you undercoat the interior parts at all or just paint onto the plastic?

hello.what spray gun would you recommend for beginner?

Excellent, also the video. The color green on the wings/ Camouflage , which one is it exactly?

Hello, Great video. Can you please explain why you drill holes in some parts? You mentioned aging, I think???

Hi, nice video and build! One question, which airbrush do you use, thanks!

seat not chair lol I would also recommend looking at Nigels build model chapel he has a great fix for the pipe feed problem that takes a few minutes and avoid that pipe feed frustration

Great build! Airfix do seem to have produced a great kit. I do however wonder with the time and effort you and other modellers spend painting minute details in the cockpit...how much of these details are actually visible on the finished kit? I know it is a labour of love for you and many but how much can be seen?