Airfix Supermarine Spitfire MkIXC

Please Note: This item is to be purchased in store due to its weight and size. Also, every kit comes with an Airfix pint glass, so you can raise your own morale while modelling. So, raise a glass to the RAF pilots who delivered courage, camaraderie, and casks, one flight at a time.

Over the years, various photographs and stories from pilots’ memoirs have emerged about Spitfires that carried beer barrels. Publications mention a special ‘Depth Charge Modification XXX’. After the D-Day landings, squadrons based at the forward airfields in northern France would send a pilot back across the Channel in a Spitfire to collect some beer or ale in barrels strapped under the wings on modified bomb racks.

Obviously, such sorties would have been deemed highly irregular by the RAF’s higher command, so the flights would not have been recorded as such in the pilot’s logbooks. Which leaves little official proof as to the exact details of these ad hoc deliveries.

Specifications:

- Scale: 1:24
- Plastic model kit [unassembled]
- Decal sheet
- Total plastic parts: 448 pieces
- Skill level: 4 (Expert)
- Paint layout sheet
- Instruction sheet
- Wingspan [cm]: 46.9

Required to Complete:

- Assembly
- Cement (glue)
- Hobby knife
- Sprue cutters
- Tweezers
- Paint brushes (various sizes)
- Paint
- Sanding sticks

This kit is a detailed scale model for hobbyists. Glue, paint and tools are sold separately. Contains small parts. Actual product may vary slightly from the pictures shown.