Revell Model Set 63897 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb 1:72 Scale Unbuilt/Unpainted Plastic Model Kit with Contacta Professional Glue, Paintbrush & Selected Aqua Color Paints

Brilliant litte kit. Suitable for beginners and experienced alike

I have started building model kits again over last year and a half. Thus far they have been larger Revell,AMT, Polar light models. So I have now developed some experience..I had to get Revell kits for a craft event. The classic spitfire was one I did as a teenager, so was nice to go back to this. For the money it is good value, given that it comes with glue, paint in 3 colours- green, grey-blue and medium grey. When assembled the whole thing will sit in Palm of your hand. As minimum you will need additional black, metallic grey for metallic components, and yellow. I would suggest Tamyia. You may want to use a Tamyia fine grey primer on main body and wing components. There is a need to use fine cutters, tweezers, decal fix solution. I use bluetac to mount some components for painting. You can paint some on the sprue, but then you will need to touch up. The kits have some option for landing gear up or down as well as different clear components for cockpit..however the fit and need to remove excess flashing made it fiddly. Having spent time painting interior cockpit,console and seat,adding decals etc. It ended up being completely concealed! Somewhat of a waste of time unless you leave the canopy off completely. Plus the canopy came in 3 tiny pieces which was very fiddly to fit. Why they couldn't do them in 2 piece, I don't know. Unfortunately, the glue ended up melting the plastic a bit, and this resulted in some paint run. This is very similar to my childhood experiences with smaller scale Airfix and other Revell kits. Something which did not happen with kits from the larger model kits from Revell and polar lights. Paint the top area of wings and fuselage, in the blue grey and the underneath of wings, landing gear in the medium grey supplied. The camouflage was done free hand using the supplied green paint. I suggest you have kind of a plan for the pattern, based loosely on pictures and practice on some paper or card first. This kit has very small components so good eye sight needed and steady dextrous hands. Kind of happy with this for the price and finished build over couple of days.

Great detail for the scale, easy to follow instructions.

Very beautiful and high quality, box came a little damaged but i cant be suprised because of the 7 hour plane ride. Pieces inside came perfectly intact would recommend.

Revell have been producing 1/72nd scale models of the Spitfire since the 1960s and all have had the same problem with the shape of the wing. The wing roots on the underside of the wing should blend into the lower fuselage in a gull wing. Revell has always neglected this feature and previous models had a flat underside to the wing and a difficult to fill joint line between the wing and fuselage. The new kit corrects the earlier flaw and also adds more details to the cockpit interior. This kit is the same price as Revell 04164, which has the errors, and should be the one to purchase. Ignore the one star review. Most kits don't include glue or paint anyway and is not a reason to award a five star kit with only one star

Decent price to try it out. Not sure if it’ll be too complicated for my 6yo, though. He’ll love it anyway

This is a great kit. Very detailed representation of the Polish 303 Squadron. Some of the decals are a bit fiddly and small and the instructions are a bit confusing at times, wing tips, canopy and aux fuel tanks are all options but no explanation as to why. That apart I thoroughly enjoyed making this kit.

Fantastic

Bu modelin en zor kısmı stickerlar ve boyamasıydı. Özellikle airbrusha sahip değilseniz boyama işlemi sırasında maskeleme yaparken epey uğraştırıyor. Kamuflajı oluşturmak zordu ama bir o kadar da keyifliydi. Bu tarz şeylere el yatkınlığınız varsa ilk modeliniz olabilir ancak onun dışında biraz zorlanabilirsiniz. Ben oldukça sevdim almak isteyenlere tavsiye ederim.

Schönes Modell auch für Anfänger geeignet Pünktliche Lieferung

Biraz küçük olsa da oldukça eğlenceli. Bununla beraber yapıştırıcı ve boya da sipariş etmeyi unutmayın.

Pour un anniversaire. Cadeau apprécié.

Leider ist die Qualität dieses Sets sehr schlecht. Es gibt jede Menge "Flesh" an den Plastikteilen, einige sind verbogen oder schlecht gegossen, die Passform ist generell allenfalls mittelmäßig. Eine der Farben war eingetrocknet. Eigentlich sollen diese Startersets doch neue Interessenten in das Hobby locken. Hiermit erreicht man aber genau das Gegenteil. Ein Einsteiger wird hiernach wohl kaum ein weiteres Modell in Angriff nehmen. Revell hat leider sehr stark nachgelassen. Mittlerweile gibt es viele bessere Hersteller.