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 Revells Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI in 1:48 is a repackaging of ICMs 2006 kit with an upgraded decals sheet. The decals allow for either building the plane as a member of the 421 Sqn of the Royal Canadian Air Force or as SL718 of the 612 Sqn. of the Royal Air Force. As this is an RAF100 entry the latter is my subject of choice.  SL718 / RAS-D 6 in July 1949 participating in the Cooper Air RaceWe open the big package to a deceptively small bundle of parts. Even though it looks small, this is 134 part kit, of which many are optional or not needed. There is a lot of variety provided for how the plane can be built, more so than usual.     The instructions are also tightly packed with 37 steps leading to the finished product. Again over half are only needed if you opt to display the kit with all the optional bells and whistles. One of these bells is to display the plane being in maintenance, which is the option I'm going to go for with panels for engines and weapons removed. I may also extend the build into a diorama depending on if I can find some nice mechanic figures. Now first steps first, I'm off to find out how a Merlin 266 engine was actually painted, because from the first few looks Revells painting instructions are based on randomly throwing darts at a color chart.
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Very nice start. Looks like being a nice model in the making. Happy Modelling
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SUBSCRIPTION COMPLETE (Awaiting building): USS Constitution, Sovereign of the Seas, 1:200 Bismarck (Hachette)
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good start to an iconic plane  will be following regards Phil  COMING SOON =1/72 Italeri diorama`s Battle for the Reichstag and Stalingrad battle at the tractor factory 1/16 Trumpeter King Tiger with loads of extras ON THE GO= refurbishment of 1/25 Tamiya tiger 1 , amt Star trek kits and space 1999 models
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Great Choice Grey, the spit is one of my favourite aircraft.
Chris On the bench 1/350 Revell Tirpitz Platinum Edition (Pontos PE and Wooden deck) plus extra Eduard PE set and extra MK1 door sets.
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Nice to see another build in the comp Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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Good to see a Spit in the comp and will be interesting to see it in a maintenance scenario.
Graeme
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A great choice of subject Michael, who doesn't love a Spitfire?! Best of luck in the competition. 
Kev 
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Always love to see a Spitfire come together, will be following..... Good luck with the build and the competition.... Regards Alan
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So a Spitfire Mk XVI would have had a US built Packard Merlin 266 engine. The manual takes note of that too. Too bad that no one at Revell bothered to do more research than to copy and paste from Wikipedia. A quick look between the cylinder heads reveals the engine the kit allows you to build is not a Merlin 266 at all. Instead it looks very much like a Merlin III as used in earlier Spitfires.  My guess is that ICM just designed the engine once and then went and copied it for all subsequent variants of the Spitfire. Which is a bit lazy if you're going to offer an open paneled version of the plane. Oh well, as we're off into fantasy land already, let's just plow straight ahead and go with Revells paint job after all. I actually DID find an implementation of this paint job. On a Merlin XX. Mounted on a Lancaster. Goody.
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great start grey. look forward to seeing your progress. Ian Current builds.Hachettes build the bismark,HMS Victory, HMS Hood.
Finished Builds Corel HMS Victory cross section.
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Finished building the engine itself so far. There's a surprising amount of detail on thist. Of course it's not Zoukei Mura levels of detail, but still impressive. Fit could be better, but then it always does. 
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Great start to this regards Phil COMING SOON =1/72 Italeri diorama`s Battle for the Reichstag and Stalingrad battle at the tractor factory 1/16 Trumpeter King Tiger with loads of extras ON THE GO= refurbishment of 1/25 Tamiya tiger 1 , amt Star trek kits and space 1999 models
So Much to Build,But What a Hobby!
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Gteat start engin looks good even if it is the wrong one 🤭 Jase “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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Added the firewall and brackets that hold the engine.  Whatever firewall ICM designed here seems to be a pure fantasy product. It's certainly no Spitfire firewall. Rather than try and paint in some random color, I've kept the whole thing in interior green as suggested by Revell. This at least (someone slappping on another layer of interior green all over all the doodads on the wall) is at least something that apparently happened sometimes (even though I could only find a single reference pic for it).
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 Wow. Fit is incredibad on the fuselage halves. This will need some major redoing. On the other hand the open engine fits perfectly.
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Some great work there regards Phil COMING SOON =1/72 Italeri diorama`s Battle for the Reichstag and Stalingrad battle at the tractor factory 1/16 Trumpeter King Tiger with loads of extras ON THE GO= refurbishment of 1/25 Tamiya tiger 1 , amt Star trek kits and space 1999 models
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Very nice work on your engine. Sure you will pull the fuselage fit back on track. Happy Modelling
BUILDING: Hachette Spitfire Mk 1A, Constructo Mayflower
SUBSCRIPTION COMPLETE (Awaiting building): USS Constitution, Sovereign of the Seas, 1:200 Bismarck (Hachette)
COMPLETED: Porsche 911, E-Type Jaguar, Lam Countach
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Riiiiiight. Forgot I'm gonna have to pull out. Had some bad interactions between paint and an aging agent I applied while tired and it ended up eating up my parts. Morale of the story: Never be so tired, you start grabbing and using the wrong bottle of chemicals.
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That's a shame as it looked promising 
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Sorry to hear you've had to pull out of the competition and such a pity too....  Regards Alan
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