I realize this is totally down to oppinion, but i am looking for the 'best' (pretty much most accurate and well detailed) spitfire kit in 1/48th on the market. Doesn't particularly matter which variant, but earlier BoB spit's would be best. Also is there an accurate Seafire kit out there with good detailing?

Thx

Charles

Hi Charles!

A very good (and only in 1/48?) early Spitfire kit is the Tamiya MkII, from this you can build a BoB ac.
Tamiya´s Spitfire family kits are well detailed, pretty accurate (some minor inaccuracies), very easy to build and really looks the part on the shelf.

Best Seafire in 1/48 is the Airfix Mk46/47, now OOP.
This kit was reboxed by Grand Phoenix with lots of resin and new Aeromaster decals.
These kits are Airfix very best and is almost as good as Tamiya, well detailed, accurate and easy to build, but needs new decals (Airfix boxing only!).

Cheers!

Stefan E

Thanks stefan, thats what i was looking for!!

Spitfire Mk I = Tamiya
Spitfire Mk V = Tamiya - Hasegawa
Spitfire Mk IX = ICM

Eduard did a limited edition release of the old Airfix MK22/24 kit this year.It comes with 4 decal options and a whole host of extras,,including a resin cockpit set and coloured PE.
Ive got one and I'll be starting it in the new year.
It really is a great kit.
If you see one anywhere grab it!
Common opinon is that it needs a vacform canopy,and everywhere seems to have sold out of that at the moment as well.
If your interested in 1:72,Ive seen a nice Aires resin set of the folding wings,but havent managed to bag one yet.Its on the list!
Hope this helps
Nige

Depending on the timescale, for your model, and how pedantic you are, there are five (well 3 + 2 possible) errors, in the cockpit, of the Tamiya Mk.I. Part no. A17 should be binned, and replaced by a mapcase. We think that Tamiya measured the Mk.I, local to here, and didn't realise that the 7/20 radio, fitted to it, is decidedly non-WWII. The radio controller sat under the left-hand windscreen quadrant. A19 isn't oxygen bottles; they're the compressed-air bottles. The oxygen bottle was much smaller, opposite the compressed air bottles, and sat horizontally, not vertically. The crowbar should be deleted, for a Battle of Britain Mk.I; it was added to the Mk.V production line. If you're doing an early I, part no. A23 should be replaced by a pump-action u/c retraction system. Finally, before August/September 1940, the rudder pedals only had a single bar, not the two-position system, seen on all of the others. Stanford Tuck tested them, in August, 1940, and, on his recommendation, they were retro-fitted, and fitted to all new Spitfires.
Edgar