Subject: Re: 2x Eduard's 1/48 Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX - Versions "C Late" and "E"
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Raul Corral" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:28:28 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
ARC Air - Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.arcair.com

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Raul Corral 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 12:42 PM
  Subject: 2x Eduard's 1/48 Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX - Versions "C Late" and "E"

  2x Eduard's 1/48 Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX

  Versions "C Late" and "E" 

  by Raul Corral

  webmodelismo 
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  These are my last two finished kits: two beautiful Spitfires from Eduard, in 1/48 scale. I built a "c Late" version from their first release, a "profipack" box, under the reference 8281, that left me really impressed by the amazing surface detail. Right away after buying this profipacked "c Late" version, I went into Eduard's online store and ordered a simplified Spitfire kit (overtrees being the commercial name), great marketing strategy from Eduard, including only the basic plastic parts for the "e version" with no decal sheet, no instructions manual, no photoetched parts but definitely with all the parts needed to built the desired version at a very good and reasonable price.

  Almost during that same time I got in my hands Kagero's Mini Top Colors (number 27) with the title "Polish Spitfires", with an excellent decal sheet full of markings barely seen before, deciding to build an attractive Polish Mk IXe coded "LW-L", carrying sexy markings with the writing "Why Not?".  A well know photo of the real aircraft can be seen in Internet:
  http://www.polishsquadronsremembered.com/318/318_Pics_Italy.html

  So what did I build from my Profipack? Well, another Spitfire, this time a Mk IXc Late with invasion stripes, in flight, with closed canopy and a old pilot figure from Airfix rescued from my drawer. Decals were taken from a superb, like always, decal sheet of EagleCals Decals (ref. 114). To display the aircraft in flying position I bought a plastic stand from Airfix, decorated with decals left over from a 1/48 Spitfire from Revell-Hasegawa I had built for a friend.

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  These two Spitfires might be included soon in a future issue of FineScale Modeler Magazine. More pics in my homepage webmodelismo.com.

  An excellent kit that for sure I will build again, probably in desert camouflage the next time.

  Remember... "Vista, suerte... y a modelar!"

  All the best,

  Raul Corral