270212 - THE SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE Part 1: Updated and Expanded Edition (Merlin Powered) including the Seafire - a complete guide to the Famous Fighter

By Richard A Franks - Airframe & Miniature Series, No 12

The Spitfire is probably the most popular aircraft modelling subject around. Our latest book will go some way towards unpicking the bewildering choice of variants and schemes that apply to the Merlin-powered versions.

Updated & Expanded including:

• Foreign Service
• Assessments of all the new kits since the first edition, including Airfix, Eduard, Tamiya & Revell
• A build of Eduard’s new tool 1/48
• Spitfire Mk I kit
• Now 272 pages!

It will contain:

• 40+ pages of technical information

• 20+ pages of walk-around images and technical diagrams

• 30+ pages of camouflage and markings

• 25+ pages of model builds and updated modelling information

• 200+ photographs including wartime images

• Colour side views and four-views by Richard J. Caruana

• 3D isometric views of all variants by Wojciech Sankowski

• Foreign service information

• Assessments of all new kits issued since mid-2018

• Specially commissioned extensive full kit builds by Libor Jekl, Steve A. Evans & Dani Zamarbide. Builds include Eduard’s new tool 1/48 Spitfire Mk I kit

• Specially commissioned front cover artwork by Jerry Boucher

• A bonus set of 1/48 scale plans