Truly a beautiful job!

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Good catch, Stephen !
this kit is riding high on my want list, the parts look good and there is a nice decal sheet in.

I have the old Airfix Spitfire Vc/Seafire kit, beside the flaws of this kit, there are decals for a South African bird with 4x20mm guns in, they look usable.
The Revell suggestions have a more standard armament, right ?

Its often said the SH Spitfire is a worse fitting kit, guess it can t be too hard.

Happy modelling
Bernd

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I've got one of those Airfix Vb/c/Seafire's in my stash. I think a lot of people do! It needs some careful rescribing to build a Seafire III, something outside of my skill set yet. I always planned to build it as a Seafire IIc if I can find the decals for it. The kit has all the bits to build the earlier version.
Again, it's a kit with a LOT of extra parts!

The South African markings from that kit would be interesting to use. I have seen photo's of that aircraft with it's full cannon fit. Although they could carry them, I believe it was very rare for C wing Spits to have them. I think the extra weight affected performance too much to make it worthwhile. At least on the Mk.V airframe. It was usually used in the Med and Italy for low-level strafing. I've read references to some Malta based aircraft having the fit for added firepower against bombers.

The Revell Vc does show the fitting of all 4 cannon in the instructions, but the marking options are both standard 2x 20mm and 4x .303 Brownings. The short plugged barrel is provided to do that. Great to have the option in case AM decal sheets include an upgunned option.
I'm looking forward to making a start on it once I've cleared my desk of some ongoing builds.



Stephen