Spitfire prototype wings

[GuildAero]

Hi,

although my First Flight project is 1/48th scale, I'm sure my enquiry would help larger scale fans. I couldn't afford a 32nd scale Spit kit, so I have the Airfix 48th Mk 1 and am trying to find some better quality drawings of the "clinker" panelled wings. I have some fuzzies, but would appreciate a better quality set.  I can't find any on the 'net, or any photos. And I can't quite make out what the panelling is like on the underside.

 

Can anyone help me with this?

 

Cheers,

Martin

[TonyT]

I haven't checked them to see if it is included, but try

 

http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw_fw.html#2

Edited June 28, 2017 by TonyT

[LSP_Ron]

Maybe have a surf around this site

 

http://spitfiresite.com/

[GuildAero]

Jennings, that chap had SO MUCH work to do, due to the kit being junk, that he threw it away in the end!  A forty quid kit!  If I'd opened the lid on that I'd have sent it straight back.

No thanks, I'm happy not to have blown more than £16 on the new Airfix kit.  I am, as an ex professional, a lot quicker than most, so I'm not phased by all the filling and re-scribing at all......once I have good reference and thanks to all you gents on 2 different forums I have the info I need.  

You should see what I've had to do on a 1/32nd scale Matchbox Mk 22 to make it into a Mk XIVe to do the Canadian racer!  Or a Rareplanes (or is it Contrail) TSR2 that needed actual lathe work!  But have Milliput and files, will proceed.  

 

I so often get given mis-shapen lumps of poor resin for slot cars and have to make them proper (as in for production) that a few shapes on an airyplane don't tax me.

 

Ron, your link came up trumps, many thanks.

 

Tony, that Russian one didn't work.

 

Cheers,

Martin

[wunwinglow]

Not sure I'd have wasted the time opening the Sutcliffe TSR2 box, let alone doing ANYTHING else to it!!!

[GuildAero]

Sutcliffe?  I think the TSR2 was a Contrail and it was a very well intentioned birthday present from my son who doesn't usually even do cards, so a gift was amazing! I like the challenge.  I know I can make stuff from scratch so why prove it over and over?  I like to give new life to something unlikely and I'm tight as a duck's botty, so I wouldn't dream of spending 40 quid on an iffy kit.  2 others might have made a good model from them, but the man to whom you linked me threw in the towel after one too many problem, so it ain't that great is it?  My Airfix Mk 1 is the most I've spent on a model kit at £16 and that was a big decision.  The Matchbox Mk 22 (for the MKXIVe Canadian racer) and another 32nd scale Spit(??) was 3 quid plus a couple postage. There might be  a couple of quid in Milliput and styrene, but I doubt it. I was given a huge box of styrene offcuts by IP Engineering a while back and doubt I'll ever use it all.  I bulk buy Milli off ebay, cheap too.  I'll foil the Mk XIVe once it's done with turkey foil from Christmas and Selotape aluminium tape I've had for ever.

These things give me my particular pleasure in modelmaking.  I make my own sail winches for my yachts too!

 

Cheers,

Martin

Edited June 29, 2017 by GuildAero

[TonyT]

Martin, you mention the Canadian Spit, are you aware of this build on here

 

http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=61418

[wunwinglow]

Martin, the chap behind Contrail Models was the late Gordon Sutcliffe..... A very prolific chap, did some excellent kits, HP42 for example, but the TSR2 was not his finest moment. I appreciate the sentiment and gift from your lad, but the kit was still dreadful!!!

[GuildAero]

Thanks wwl, I didn't know that.  Not big on personnel.

I know it's a dreadful kit, but as a gift it has to be done. Cut and close up on the fuselage, turn new inlet cowls and cones and cut to fit, surgery on the wings (big time). It's all a nice challenge.

 

Tony, I have seen that thread and very helpful it has been too as I really don't have time (or patience) for that kind of research. I will be foiling mine rather than using litho and malleable ally, but of course his is some kind of huge kit basis in 1/18th scale isn't it?  I respect his workmanship, but in that scale it all becomes very easy to do, but I would only use 1/16th scale. I detest 1/18th cars, so 1/18th aircraft are equally daft. If it ain't on my steel rule, it don't get done, but as a research "vessel", that thread has been a Godsend, not that half that detail will be put on my 32nd scale model at almost half the size!

 

On the 48th scale First Flight, I have now got plans of the wing and have also deepened the nose just behind the prop as none of the models I've seen have that part deep and blunt enough according to the excellent side view of the original.  Just a bit of Milliput and a file down.

 

Martin