Some modellers, although far from all of them, appear to have that special talent for producing models in entire series. I have previously posted a picture of twenty-two 1/48 Spitfires built by professional modeler Ricardo Dacoba from Argentina, asking informally if anyone could beat the number. I’m glad to tell you that the challenge has been responded to – and the record raised. I hereby officially announce that current all-time-high is 53 built Spitfire and Seafire models, all of which will be duly presented on this site – in stages!
If you can beat that, or just happen to have a nice series of Spitfire models in your possession, please let me know!
Today I have been working with the IPMS Stockholm Magazine and I’d like to point you to another fantastic modeling project related to British Aviation – and, by all means, also the Spitfire. Raul Hrubisko’s lifetime passion is nothing less than modelling every kind of aircraft used by RAF, FAA and Commonwealth air forces during the timeframe of 1934-1947. Just to give an impression about the size of Raul’s undertaking, the collection is planned to comprise of about 1000 models when ready! Impossible? Not at all: to my knowledge Raul has already finished almost 500 of them in the course of several years, including all the Spitfires, Mosquitoes, Typhoon/Tempest family, Miles trainers, and more. His latest area of focus has been American aircraft in Fleet Air Arm service – 63 models in all. Have a look at his article, I’m sure you will be as stunned as I was.
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