D-Day 80 Years: Building Airfix's 1/24 Spitfire Mk.IXc | Full Build in 4K 

I really hope you guys enjoy this one! Took many hours, but I'm glad I could present it to you on such an historic day! If you've got any questions related to the build, feel free to drop them below! Note for channel members: The complimentary 'In-Focus' video, where I cover (in detail) my thought processes, references, and research behind the cockpit/engine builds, will be available on Saturday 8th of June onwards. Apologies for the slight delay, however I've been pretty bogged down with University exams this past week so haven't had time to finalise the edit. Many thanks for your patience!

Just here for the algorithm. Outstanding work, deserves far more exposure!

Exceptional work! A few very minor points I would offer for your future endeavors. Framing in engine compartments on our birds tended to get dinged up quite a bit. Metal tools being maneuvered in tight spaces by tired men and women. Along those lines, lots of chipping around anything that's getting regular attention from maintainers. Maintaining planes is dirty work, so there are going to be dirty, oily hands constantly grabbing that framing for support. I would expect it to be a bit more grimy as this plane is clearly not fresh off the line. I would also expect to see some chipping on the forward wing root where a maintainer would stand while servicing the engine, cleaning the canopy, etc. I'm only climbing in and out of the cockpit once, maybe twice a day. The maintainers are climbing all over it a lot more often, and for much longer periods of time.

Thanks for that it was excellent, your attention to detail is brilliant and the finished model is fantastic, well done.

mannn I'm gonna have to watch that again, that was Spectacular, Well done !

Absolutely amazing! One of your best!

To be honest, I am into plastic kits and exhibitions for 30 years. I build them by myself as well. But ... I have never seen such beautiful kit like this, truly amazing job. Perfect paintjob, nice weathering, perfect shadows.

Superlative work. ❤😍 thank you.

I have just received a 1:24 Spitfire from a work colleague at a bargain price (£60). It will be my 1st ever attempt at such a massive scaled kit. Some great tips n tricks within this build.

Thank you!!! I've learned a lot of new painting methods from this video. FANTASTIC!!

Personally I believe that we are faced with something that is too little to define as a masterpiece... I am amazed and speechless! Congratulations 👋🏻🇮🇹

Amazing build. Your hard work has paid off. I also just finished building the same kit. It’s a very enjoyable build experience. Good luck with the next project.

Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge

Great video and fine looking model! This and seeing the Spitfires in the air last weekend at Duxford made me order the kit 😅 Keep up the great work!

A stunning model. ❤

Lovely work ! You should show a few pictures of the real aircraft.

Outstanding work on the spitfire looks awesome

That's an extraordinarily well finished Spitfire! I'm really not surprised that this took a year to complete, on and off...... such painstaking work on the painting. Not that my opinion is worth anything at all; but here it is anyway. Beautiful.........absolutely. 👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻

Outstanding build and point job. I will have to put this kit on my list. Just one thing (from a Spitfire nerd), the crowbar was interior green or bare metal throughout the war. Only restored aircraft have them painted red. Re the comments below on propellers: blades on the Rotol 3 blade props were manufactured by Jablo and were a wood composite with a hard metal mesh sheet and cellulose coating were pressed onto the outside of the blade; so some metal may have shown through with wear - a distinctive pattern can certainly be seen on some prop leading edges (I believe that there may also have been a brass protection strip applied to the leading edge). I have read that the four bladed Rotol props reintroduced duralumin blades. DH props I think all had duralumin blades.

Man I love your clean and proffesional atmosphere in your videos. Its calming and very informational but not in a boring way. Rather in a fun and creative way! Keep up your work❤

David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Tuesday, 25 June, 2024). Well, for your intriguing construction of Airfix’s 1:24th-scale kit of the renowned Spitfire Mk. IXc RAF Fighter, I must say, what a masterful synthesis of the various, combined skills that is model-building, the twenty-first century’s merging of artistry, artisanship, craftwork, and technology! So elegantly æsthetic and technically proficient is your handiwork that I must wonder: had you in a previous life been one of the great masters with brushes and oils upon canvas? Or, alternately, had you eighty-odd years past been a pilot of a de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito RAF fighter-bomber, who each midnight doggedly harried the scheming, obsidian-hard, black-hearted. black-garbed Gestapo and their snarling, snapping, baying Sturmstaffel attack hounds that by day cowered in their clammy, fœtid subterranean den of exploiters and sadists deep within the bowels of war-torn Berlin? You refer obliquely to your next project, giving no specifics. I propose that you at your next opportunity commence with the Airfix 1:24th-scale kit of the amazing Wooden Wonder, the Mosquito RAF light bomber. I suggest this first for its own merits, for it and its determined, doughty crews deserve such recognition as your excellent œuvres could bring. Yet also, since I had read about two extraordinary anecdotes of them that merit due recognition: at the very outset of D-Day, 6 June, 1944, scores of them had flown close air support air strikes directly to aid the Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (had His Majesty, the King yet knighted him? Or had that been several years on, at the hand of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II?) and his uncounted thousands of hardy warriors even then just arriving to set free a war-weary Europe. Another highly dramatic account had told of a hundred or more of these unarmed airborne Pegasi in early 1944, in a relentless campaign of thirty-eight days, swiftly had penetrated deep into that horizontal abyss unto increasingly grotesque totalitarianism, repeatedly striking key government and military objectives well within the grimy, corrupt heart of Berlin itself in the RAF’s offensive to disrupt the decadent Nazi regime’s sordid scheme to impose upon the sovereign nations of Europe its malevolent totalitarianism.

Outstanding Spitfire, really like the paintjob and weathering being not overdone. Congrats and keep up good work!

Beautiful video build, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Beautiful work! I am working on the 1/24th scale Typhoon "Car Door" right now. It too is a great kit, just a few minor flaws with some of the fit.

Great build. Enjoy your summer at the bench!

Just discovering your channel, amazing work! One day I’ll do some planes, for now I’m focusing on tanks ^^

Looks great. Well done!

Beautiful Model and presentation! And yes, I also know the feeling of not having enough time for model building and videos in addition to my studies and free time :D

Great build! The painted bolts featured on Merlin’s made in America by Packard Bell under licence to Rolls Royce, mainly for American built P-51’s.

Amazing, looks incredible.

Remember that if you finish the model with the ailerons out of centre then the stick has to be positioned to the right or left of centre as appropriate.

Superb build and video! The stressed skin effect is very subtle and very nice. I don't do 1/24 or WW2 aircraft but sorely tempted after watching this!

Absolutely great. I would like you to build a JU-87 on such a scale.

thanks for sharing have a great weekend ✌Canada✌

Looks good. I think the red part of the seat is in fact a compressed material rather than leather. Some seats later in the war were all metal and therefore green. Something to look into.

well that has just made up my mind for me. I have the old 24th scale kit which i will finnish at some point but seeing this version well, they are chalk and cheese.

Incredible job! Some faint exhaust stains would look cool as well.

Fantastic work on the model and the video.

Amazing build, I like the painting methods, gonna try them myself!!

Really nice mate 😉👌

superb work well done 👌🏻

A Spitfire IX probably had wooden propeller blades so metallic chipping wouldn't be appropriate.

I have this in primer as well speak, second time painting it as mission models paint failed again and simply turned back into liquid upon the minor application of water for chipping and decal application. Now switch to AK so fingers crossed

amazing work

Killer job, no surprise though we'd expect nothing less. After building such a massive kit, what are your thoughts now on building 1/24 versus say, 1/48?

Just a beutifel build i realy like the cocpit paint job great video

This it just great, the only spitfire ive done was years ago one of my first builds, so this kit looks interesting.

amazing !

Just got over ½ way with this build but found an early misalignment error has ruined the engine mounting stage. Using acrylic art paints and finish is bloody awful! Just ordered No. 2 and plan to start again after learning a lot from first build. Blimey some of the bits are really small for my 86 year old fingers. Your build and colouring really beautiful.

Top draw modelling The level I expire to be at one day 😮

Very impressive build. I suppose this kit could be used as a basis for the Hellenic Air Force Spitfire MJ755, using the clipped wings etc?

Great build! Currently building the same model. Regarding the airbrushes I noticed 3 different brushes, you mentioned why you use the ultra but what made you choose between the infinity 1.5mm nozzle and the evolution? What nozzle did you use on the evolution? Last one is a bit of a random one, but where do you buy the foam/sponge that you use in the canopy and wheel bays?

Amazing work. May I share this video?

Amazing job! I have a question, because I am trying to buy my first airbrush for my models, I’ll ask, is there any airbrush you’d recommend?

I think the seat pan is made of a bakelite type material not leather, a redish brown color.

Hello Mate , I have a question . Can i use Vallejo Thinner with Tamya acrylic paint since it’s the only thinner I have ?

The propeller blade was wooden ... so congratulation for research and knowledge about Spitfire.

Head pad is behind the seat not in front behind pilots head

Just one thing to mention: the firing order seems to be not quite correct!!

whenever i read the words "full build" i always prepare myself for a boring, bland, out of the box creation, often with striking errors. Clearly this is not the case here. You have a good grasp of modelling techniques, but more important, the model looks fairly real. Realism over artistic license, especially with weathering is a tricky balance to keep and you did it exceptionally well. The large scale helps, but still! congrats!

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I admire the work, but one year is too long on one project. Too many others in the stash to get to.

blades on spitfire were wooden.. not a metal at all..