Classic FROG Spitfire XIV & V1 Flying Bomb 1/72 Review 

A truly classic kit in its day and the only Griffon-engined Spitfire available at that time. The SEAC markings made it sublime. The V1 model was an inevitable crowd pleaser, but that's the essence of good marketing. What a loss the demise of FROG was to the 70s modeller. Love your videos, Peter. Nice to have a channel for the nostalgia modeller.

I saw that kit as a ten year old boy. It was a revelation that the spitfire was with big five bladed nose. In those days in Denmark kits was more or less the only way to learn about ww2 planes

I like these FROG kits,missed them first time ,only AIRFIX and MAtCHBOX reached us in deepest South Wales when I was young.

Kit was good for its time and is still a fun build , which is what it is all about.

I can remember hanging up the planes on the sealing with cotton you have to watch your head hitting them in your bedroom love the vid always brings back memories

I love your channel! Reminds me of a time when making models was so much more simple. My grandfather was deployed in the Pacific during WW2 and I got a lot of my love for aircraft from him. He had a bar in his house and had over 100 aircraft hanging from the ceiling and walls. Was such a sight. When I was much younger he would buy me kits. I think the first one he ever gave me was a Revell P26 Peashooter, With a STAND!! I'm trying to track o=one down. I've recently started getting back into building kits. Now it's all about rivet counts and weathering and panel lines, but I'm on a journey to get better at modelling!! Keep up the awesome content!!

That boxing was from 1974. The first one was issued in 1969.

Dad made this back in the day. With the double stand showing the spitfire chasing the v1. It looks pretty good of a model and still survives to this day

The first Frog kit that I bought, 50 years ago in 1972! It was cool, late model Spit with the V-1. And the bottom of the box had those detailed painting guides and three views. I bought it at a Milton Bradley store which was 1/2 mile north from where I work. The store is now a city park; and model is long gone as well. It was built in the SEAC markings. The kit was a pretty good one for the time.

I don't know how often this kit has been re-boxed and sold by different East European manufacturers, seeing an original Frog boxing does take me back many years, I remember when Frog announced they were going out of business one of our local stores that sold their kits wanted rid of their entire stock so they were selling them at between 50 and 75% off, I went down and bought half a dozen aircraft kits. I must have built a couple of the Spitfire XIV / V-1 kits back in the early nineties because I recently found a box of 1/72 Spitfire bits and pieces and there were 3 V-1's sitting in the box, I do remember I used one of their kits as the basis for a Spitfire 21 conversion.

one of my first kts ever and a favourite

I saw that kit as a ten year old boy. It was a revelation to me that the spitfire evolved into one with a big five bladed nose. In those days in Denmark kits was more or less the only way to learn about ww2 planes

And it is hard to believe that Frog went out of business 45 years ago...

Hi Peter Frog Didn't ever build a Mk-IX Spit but another interesting fact about this kit is the Cannons are mounted inner cannons and outer cannons moulded round the wrong way

The first Spitfire I ever made, back in 1973. I did want one with a three bladed propellor, really badly though, and had to wait until an uncle bought me the old 1/72 scale Revell Spitfire. To be honest, I liked the 'Doodlebug' better than the Spitfire.

In the 80ties in Poland we could buy the FROG kits produced by NOVO from the USSR. NOVO had bought the moulds and sold FROG models under their own brand. The quality wasn't bad. Comparing to the models made behind the Iron Curtain the standard was in fact very good. As ahudge Matchbox fan I wasn't impressed, but sometimes NOVO was the only option to have an interesting model. Matchbox and Airfix were available only in the black market and cost alot of money. I had this particular kit, and it was OK. There were no stand and the clear parts were a bit foggy, but the cowling of the engine were impressive... and V1 was a treat :)

Loved this kit! The plastic in the one I built was black rather than grey. The V1 lasted a lot longer in the collection than the Spit!

One of my favorite kits EVER! No classic subtle gull-wing? It didn't matter. This kit was so cool. 🙂

I built this back in the early 70's. What really thrilled me about this kit, was that it was my first peek ever on to how the V1 looked. I had heard of it, but the meagre war shelf in the local library in a backwater village in Sweden couldn't (of course) provide any pictorial help.

These older kits are very interesting Peter, very unique vids mate. Cheers.

Other than the HAWK Mk 22 in 1/72 scale, this was the only other Griffon engine Spitfire back in the day.

Oh yes! Had this back in the day.

The thing is Peter you are so right about stands, especially aircraft, by their very nature should be able to be viewed in flight. I love the concept of the stand allowing the Spitfire to be chasing the V1, its very imaginative and if we want to get new people, especially children, interested in modelling then why the heck can't these manufacturers just throw in a stand? It wouldn't cost much more and it would look wonderful, not just a static aircraft looking like a statue.

Very Nice boxart

10 out of 10

In the mid seventies Frog could not provide enough spitfire, and flying bomb kits , to South Africa. There were only two model shops one in Joeburg , and one in Capetown. I think their was six months waiting list.

I have a the Novo kit version of this in dark grey plastic. The decals appear to be in excellabt condition. No yellowing. However the plastic does feel quite soft and a bit brittle. I tried to build a Novo Kittyhawk during the pandemic about thrree years ago and the cowling broke in half. When l tried to use the transfers on another kittyhawk the decals disintegrated. I think l might just keep this as part of my unbuilt stash.

One of my favourites too. Not the most accurate Spitfire kit but it makes a brilliant diorama.

Tri-Ang was a subsidiary of Rovex. The tail is spot-on for a Mk XIV up to Mk 24 (except Mk XVI and Seafire Mk XVII)

I have never built a frog model. Our local shops didn’t have them back in the day

Sorry Peter they did build the Mk-8/9 Spitfire which I have in my stash

I build the eastern express rebox of this kit at one point. it will take some work to bring it up to modern standards, the lower wing attachment/gull wing area was more akin to a medieval monk's rendering of the subject than something based on actual research. But overall it's not the worst mk xiv out there, and the V1 is an absolute bonus. posed mine on a stand as it's tipping over the v1 with it's wingtip as they supposedly did , and makes for an exciting display in any case!

Да...собирал такую в начале 80 - х годов...только без декалей,в простой упаковке...стоило копейки.

I thought, on the "action display stand", that they'd have posed them side by side "wing tipping."

My Grandmother bought me a very similar kit to this when I was about 8 years old (it might have been this kit but it was a long time ago), is this the one with the dual stand?

Flies Right OF the Ground,straight into the bin 🤣🤣🤣,I genuinlmiss these easy kits,I mean,an early frog,airfix of matchbox kits had less parts than an Eduard spitfire undercarriage and wing assembly