IBG Models have a new-tool 72nd scale Spitfire series underway. This blog has reviewed their IAR 80/81 series and built the Gotha 242 and Fw 190 D-9 - great kits, loads of detail with plenty of internal and external options and more importantly, the fit is always good for such relatively 'complex' kits...
Click on the image to go straight to the IBG site where you can download the instructions and see the 10 markings options in the first 'black box' release
pics by 'dixieflyer'
Squadron Leader Hilary Richard Lionel “Robin” Hood's 41 Sqd Spitfire EB-R for 'Robin'. Operational over Dunkirk from Hornchurch, Hood downed a Do 17 on 1 June by diving at it head-on, despite being effectively unarmed having run out of ammunition. He claimed a 109 and a Ju 87 on 29 July but on 5 September he collided with another aircraft while attacking a Dornier and crashed into the Channel. He is still listed as missing, one of some 179 RAF pilots who were lost and whose bodies were never recovered.
Below; some of the 'bonus' markings in the new IBG Models 'Black Box' Spitfire I & II kit include two 92 Sqd schemes from May 1940 and a 65 Sqd machine from Manston as seen in late July 1940. The replica Spitfire at the Capel-le-Ferne 'National memorial to the Few' on the cliffs between Folkestone and Dover has been refurbished (following storm damage) in a Manston 65 Sqd scheme..
