Tonight I put my best face forward as a reviewer and take a detailed look at Tamiya's brand-new 1/32 scale Spitfire Mk. IXC. This plastic kit will become generally available in November, but I'm pleased to get ahead of the events thanks to Tamiya's public presentation of their market-ready kit at the recent Plamodel Hobby Show in Tokyo on October 8-11.

The review consists of three sections in which we walk through the kit's engineering, optional parts, detail, clear parts and marking options. This makes it by a margin the largest and most detailed product review I have written to date, but I believe that the significance of Tamiya's new kit for the modelling community makes the effort worthwile. On a personal note, I have been working on the scale drawings of the very same Spitfire variant for quite some time, which brought additional fun comparing the results of Tamiya's research with mine.

I hope that you will enjoy the review and find a few comments from old Spitfire nut useful.

• Read the in-box Review of Tamiya 1/32 Spitfire Mk. XIC, which is the new addition to Product News & Reviews, and has been cross-posted in Modelling.

The excellent kit images in this review have been promptly provided by Dave Johnson from New Zealand (thanks, Dave!).

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