This is what I'll do: I'll get both kits, instead of relying on third parties who can't agree with one another, assemble them without paint, and then match them at the exact same angle, side by side and with real-life photos, and you'll decide who wins.

Other source, quoting the SAME Monforton book:
-Largeur capot, juste devant les ouvertures latérales ( à hauteur des échappements ): 729,5 mm.
So which is it? 738.6 mm or 729.5 mm?
Isn't that worrisome that two accounts from the SAME source don't agree by half an inch? Perhaps it isn't an easy figure to gather from the source?

In any case the best real-life measurement I got was the spinner, and the spinner here is something over 25 inches (or 635 mm), since it already measures that off-center

As for the Tamiya 1/32 spinner, all I had to go on is the following:
Tamiya au 1:32 =>19,5mm : 624 mm.
And now Edgar: Tamiya's is 19.72mm. : 631 mm.

I'll boil it down to the following:
-The Tamiya kit looks completely wrong in this area

@all others: if you do not care about a spitfire MODEL being o;5 mm inacurate then why on earth do you allow yourself being agitated like this and replying to the provocations???
Oh well, I probably don't understand anything

Quoted Text

---

@all others: if you do not care about a spitfire MODEL being o;5 mm inacurate then why on earth do you allow yourself being agitated like this and replying to the provocations???

---

The simple answer is that there are those who carry out genuine research, in order to further the knowledge of fellow modellers, not in order to increase their (self-perceived) standing in the modelling community.
It isn't a matter of us "caring" about non-existent errors, it's a fear that others might be taken in by them, believe them, and get led down a complete cul-de-sac.

And let's remember whose side Roy Sutherland's opinion was on the last time I pointed out here numerous gross Spitfire kit errors

I have just laid the Eduard fuselage halves onto Paul Monforton's 1/48 drawings, and they match exactly, by which I mean that I can't draw even a .3mm red line anywhere except exactly on the lines of the drawings. I'm sure that everybody (with one possible exception) will be pleased to hear that.

Ah but in order to satisfy that one exception, have you tried mating it to the fuselage half of a completely different Spitfire kit to see if it matches up?..

Hi Gaston

Many thanks for posting the photo. I'm sure you'd be the first to agree that, as it's off-centre and with only one end of the measure visible, "it'd never stand up as evidence in court" - but at least it's one in the eye for anyone (myself included) who doubted its existence.

All the best

Rowan

...considering the excellent Airfix PR XIX that just came out (and about which you'll note I have no complaints)...

I'll probably compare these kits down the line as well...

Here is an idea, why not find a different model made by someone else and use that as a basis for your criticism, I think Jonathon Mock has already told you off for doing that to his work.

take the stick out of you a$$ and build a kit