The most scale Spitfire model ever ?

[First time Juke]

Enjoy !

http://hsfeatures.com/features04/spitfiremkidg_1.htm

Yeah and very merry Christmas to all AAFO readers from northern Scandinavia !


best regards,

Jukka

[RarebearFan77]

Re: The most scale Spitfire model ever ?

That is just amazing!!! I just bought a Pica 1/5 Spit and thought the guy did and excellent job on it but this is just over the top. I am very amazed at it. Can't wait to see the Mustang.

[On Site Grafix]

Re: The most scale Spitfire model ever ?

Without question the most beautiful and magnificently scaled model I have ever seen. Certainly among the finest models the world has ever seen I would think.

With a macro lens and the right lighting, I could easily spend the better part of a day with it.

[First time Juke]

Re: The most scale Spitfire model ever ?

Can't wait to see the Mustang.

http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Park.htm

Funny, I am making landing gear for my Hanriot in 1/7 scale of aluminium ( I was figuring, if I was a dentist this would all be much easier ) and this link just came to me.

[Race5]

Re: The most scale Spitfire model ever ?

He should have used one of the running Merlins and made it a little bigger. Not to fly of course, but imagine that plane, with that detail, that runs.......

[First time Juke]

Re: The most scale Spitfire model ever ?

There is a 1/4 scale Merlin that actually runs.

I still think after the outstanging Spit in the opening thread, this Mustang is in par with Park's Corsair, but not better, yet in the class of their own.

Any Hurricane or a Tempest in the same niveau ?

http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/images/ParkP51fLSide.jpg

[Skyracer]

Re: The most scale Spitfire model ever ?

Dunno about a 1/4 scale Merlin, but here's a link to a 1/5th scale with lots of kewl pictures of the itty-bitty pieces and a video of it running. (Hand propping a Merlin?...WOW...lol)

http://www.enginehistory.org/merlin_xx.htm

The builder of this engine is currently working on a 1/5 scale RR Eagle. Here's the link:

http://www.enginehistory.org/eagle_22.htm

[First time Juke]

Re: The most scale Spitfire model ever ?

The builder of this engine is currently working on a 1/5 scale RR Eagle.

Where was the Eagle used in ?

[Skyracer]

Re: The most scale Spitfire model ever ?

The RR Eagle V22 was used in the Westland Wyvem torpedo bomber. Unfortunately, this all came about at a time of the jet and shaft turbine engines and did not see service in any frontline aircraft, nor did it go to war. Wikipedia has a good capsule history of both.

[First time Juke]

Re: The most scale Spitfire model ever ?

Are there any real 1/1 scale specimen in existence ?

[BillRo]

Re: The most scale Spitfire model ever ?

The Eagle was only used in the prototype Wyverns; the 90 production aircraft used the Armstrong Siddeley Python turbo-prop. The only surviving Wyvern is at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton and has an Eagle installed in it. This pic is from 2005.

BillRo