So having recently watched an episode of James May’s toy stories where he built a 1:1 scale plastic (/airfix) spitfire it occurred to me that I had never built a spitfire. In fact I have never owned or built either a lancaster or a spitfire, the two archetypal model kits that all boys of that bygone age had done. So anyway when I went into Aargon games next my wife convinced me to buy a kit, was only like $15 so I thought I might as well. This is the result. Not quite an unmitigated disaster but what I would consider pretty close. I’m not happy with it. I made a mistake with assembling the kit (missed a piece), the gunsight had a molding defect, got excess glue on the wing surfaces, but worst of all was the application of the decals which were just horrendous. Even with micro-solv I was unable to get them to conform properly, some split, needed lots of cutting, which was difficult to say the least….. it was all very frustrating to be honest and I now remember what it was like and why I don’t make them anymore.