Eduard has released its new tool Spitfire Mk.1 kit in 1/48 scale.
The new offering, dubbed “The Spitfire Story” (11143) is a limited edition “dual combo” kit focused on machines from the type’s introduction into service to the end of Battle of the Britain. It reportedly includes two sets of Eduard plastic parts to build two models with different fuselage options. Also included are pre-painted photo-etched parts, a painting mask and a resin figure of Douglas Bader.
A whopping 10 marking options are also included:
A) K9795, No. 19 Squadron, RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire, October 1938
B) No. 41 Squadron, RAF Catterick, North Yorkshire, Spring 1939
C) K9906, flown by F/O Robert Stanford Tuck, No. 65 Squadron, RAF Hornchurch, Essex, Summer 1939
D) K9955, flown by F/O Archibald Ashmore McKellar, No. 602 Squadron, RAF Drem, East Lothian, Scotland, March 1940
E) N3180, flown by P/O Alan Christopher Deere (RNZAF), No. 54 Squadron, RAF Hornchurch, Essex, May 1940
F) P9443, flown by F/Lt Douglas Bader, No. 222 Squadron, RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Kirton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire, early June 1940
G) K9953, flown by F/Lt. Adolph Gysbert Malan, No. 74 Squadron, RAF Hornchurch, Essex, June/July 1940
H) N3162, flown by P/O Eric Stanley Lock, No. 41 Squadron, RAF Hornchurch, Essex, United Kingdom, August/September 1940
I) X4425, flown by F/Sgt. George Cecil Unwin, No. 19 Squadron, RAF Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire, August/September 1940
J) X4382, flown by P/O Osgood Philip Villiers Hanbury, No. 602 Squadron, RAF Westhampnett, West Sussex, September 1940
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