Spiteful Seafang master

[song]

Hi all

we are just finish the Seaful family master, share his photo to here, please lend your eyes to check it . and give me more opinions before it get into metal mould making process.

Saefang

Seaful

Best regard

Song

Edited September 14, 2010 by song

[Deon]

Excellent looking kits of the Spiteful and Seafang(?), hopefully the experts will be along soon to give their opinions

[stevehnz]

Song, I think your Seaful should be called Spiteful. I'm no expert but they look very nice to me. What scale is this?

Steve

[song]

Song, I think your Seaful should be called Spiteful. I'm no expert but they look very nice to me. What scale is this?

Steve

Yes, i make a mistake, i change it now. thank you.

[oldrover]

Well, the laws of nature are unbreakable - I've just started Falcon 1/48 Spiteful vac

Incredible news!!

[Andrew Jones]

They look very nice indeed, I never thought I'd see a mainstream injection moulded Sefang/Spiteful.

[DominikS]

Hope to see them in 72nd scale...I'm afraid that it's only wishful thinking, though. So there's only Awful Zee kits left. Daro.

[Shar2]

Very nice. Although not an expert on the type, I would still buy several.

[The wooksta V2.0]

WOW! Please tell me that these are 72nd....

[Chris D]

Definately looking forward to these being released.

Chris

[Nigel Bunker]

Oh that they were in 72 scale.

[The wooksta V2.0]

That's the only recommendation that we can come up with - scale it down to 72nd!

[Enzo the Magnificent]

That's the only recommendation that we can come up with - scale it down to 72nd!

But scale it down from what?

1/48... 1/48... 1/48...

[Caerdydd]

Good! Next step the Firebrand?? In 48 of course!

[TonyT]

Mr Song,

Looking very good, I would say you are missing the main fuel tank filling point off the top cowl, behind the engine, you have the oil tank access panel on the side, but the top fuel one isn't there as far as I can see,

This is on the 19 to show it on the tank as you can see the filler is quite deep

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/t...sRRGNmedium.jpg

and this shows the tanks there on the Spitful and the same layout

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/t...Spiteful012.jpg

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/t...Spiteful013.jpg

Also as the drawings show the header tank for the coolant being at the front as per the 19, I would suspect you are missing this filler panel, though it does not show well in the photos I have.

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/t...y/portfront.jpg

also the gearbox dipstick one again off the 19, but the big curve piece is a repair

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/t...ony/rearstb.jpg

on a side note, I notice you are doing the MK V? this is one of the original Spitfire paint scheme drawings produced during the war.

http://s536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/t...fireDrawing.jpg

Edited September 14, 2010 by TonyT

[Matt Roberts]

Now where's the Attacker?

Interesting choice

[Homebee]

Now where's the Attacker?

And the Gannet AEW, Firebrand, Firefly Mk.5, Scimitar...

Now, these Spiteful/Seafang, in 1/48th, I suppose (hope)?

Anyway, you know what

V.P.

Edited September 14, 2010 by Homebee

[spitfire]

Hopefully the modelling God will make sure that they are 1/32 scale.

Cheers

Den

[Homebee]

Hope to see them in 72nd scale...I'm afraid that it's only wishful thinking, though. So there's only Awful Zee kits left. Daro.

What's the problem with the AZ Models?

Seafang

http://www.legatokits.cz/Plastic72/Seafang..._seafang_32.htm

Spiteful

http://www.legatokits.cz/Plastic72/Spitefu...ne_spiteful.htm

Review: http://www.hyperscale.com/2009/reviews/kit...1reviewmd_1.htm

V.P.

[The wooksta V2.0]

The AZ kit is too slim, the prop spinner is overscale for the fuselage (despite being the same size as those for other Griffon Spits), the canopy is the wrong shape and woefully undersize, the cockpit interior is bogus. Frankly, horrible. I had four and sold three on as soon as I could. The only one left I'll be using as a source of bits to cobble together a decent Spiteful prototype with a Spitfire F14 fuselage.

I'm probably going to get shot down here, but I've a feeling that the u/c legs are wrong. The master has ones similar to a Mustang but I'm not so sure that's correct. The snag is, none of the available photos on t'interweb have enough detail or are from the wrong angle. I'll check with the Morgan/Shacklady bible when I get home.

However, in the meantime, this may shed some light on the problem.

Edited September 14, 2010 by The wooksta V2.0

[Test Graham]

I rather like the current AZ kits, cleanly moulded and generally fairly accurate - or at least no worse than any other producer.

Edited September 14, 2010 by Graham Boak

[The wooksta V2.0]

Of all the Spiteful kits released in 72nd (Rareplanes, Pegasus - twice, Magna, CMR and AZ), the only one which feels right to me is the Pegasus one.

Whilst it has it's own flaws (the tail surfaces are either the wrong shape or too long and it's too long, going by the plans in Aviation News), it's got that 'chunky' feel to it that you get looking at the photos which none of the other kits seen to have. The Magna one is a close second, although it's closer to a Seafang than a Spiteful.

[jenshb]

An interesting choice. Thankfully, the surface details are clean, with just enough rivets on the main detachable panels to be of interest - as you have seen, the real airframes were very smooth. Shapewise the only think I would question so far is the shape of the spinner on the Spiteful. It looks too rounded in the front and too flat on the sides. I'm pretty certain there should be a subtle "discontinuity, or a "break" if you like, in the curvature between the spinner and the upper nose contours. The wheel wells do look rather naked and boxed in whereas the real ones are quite open with only the main spar forming the rear wall. AFAIK, the Attacker used the same wing, so I would assume that the wheelwells would be very similar. I have taken some pics at the FAA Museum and I can post them later.

Jens

Edited September 14, 2010 by jenshb

[RZP]

Those are beautiful!! Regardless of the scale I will be buying them.

Looks like 1/48 probably, but oh to have those in 1/32!!!!!

Cheers,

Richard

[Wurzacher]

I second that: 1/48 scale would be fine, but 1/32 would be just a dream!

Mr Song, thank you for doing these beauties!

Thomas