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My opinions are my opinions, and have been fully justified with photographic justification for what I wrote on all the points I raised, your comment above is totally unacceptable and you should withdraw it!

That is a matter of opinion, and only one of the errors in the cockpit layout have been aired on this forum, If you knew more about Spitfires, you would know you are wrong in your expressed views, none the less you are entitled to them, just as everyone is entitled to a view! However eroors of fact are just that, errors of fact.

Hi Paul Well said, I totally agree with you, and all credit to Eduard for being straight up enough to own their mistakes, and correct them! If only all other manufacturers were of the same caliber!

Are you asking me to write out and illustrate all the errors and mistakes in this kit including all the obvious mistakes in the cockpit?

I agree, well said!

I completely disagree about Kotare, think whatever you like about the Fit and engineering, but te Kotare Spitfire is really badly researched by comparision to an Eduard Spitfire - the Kotare is bad as far as the big forms go, and the Kotare cockpit is a complete muddle..... An Eduard 1/48 Spitfire MkI scaled up to 1/32 would be infinitely better than the Kotare effort.

Their Spitfires are well ahead of the Kotare effort already, far more accurate in the essential form, the wing especially, and although there are issues with the Eduard they have made far far fewer mistakes with the details - the cockpit for instance which is a proper muddle in the Kotare kit, so I would very much welcome an Eduard Spitfire Mk I, although I suspect Vladimir S is talking about more versions of a Me109 in 1/32, an F, G and a K I would summise. Lets hope for a more accurate Spitfire MkI and MkII from Eduard though!

The brake line is behind the control stick, actuated by the long brake actuator in the middle of the stick hand hold, so that is my mistake, it's a single line that goes to a 5 way connector and a relay valve. The two lines on the front of the stick are one guns, and the second is camera [if fitted] but always plumbed. On frame 8 as marked.

Spitfire Mk I II and Vb have 5 pneumatic airlines running down frame 8 on the port side [as per original post question] . Aircraft with C wings initially had 5 lines, but reverted to 4 when they lost their landing lights. I have never seen a Spitfire with just three lines on frame 8.

They are pneumatic airlines, going to the port guns, from the instrument panel gauge and then the cylinders behind the seat.

Very nicely done, superb!

Excellent, very nice to see this so nicely done!

Tamiya Spitfire 1/32 every time, it is by far the best. Mk IXc or MkVIII, or MkXVI

And for what it is worth, here is a pic of K9942, with a restoration coat of black under the port wing that would have covered a sky undersurface of this replacement 1942 wing. The Identification plates in the wheel well are clearly not overpainted, either sky or the restoration black, and are dated as a replacement wing fitted in 1942. The wing itself is a remanufactured b wing that has had the panel over the wheel well cut out and replaced, and then wing strakes and strengthening fillets added, at which point these data plates would have been added, though I cannot say whether they were from the original skin. The point remains that the data plates are not overpainted in any colour.

Absolutely right!