Collectors of Spitfire models have had a glaring gap in their displays, due to the lack of any replica depicting the type's prototype airframe, K5054. Thankfully, Diverse Images has come to the rescue with a 1/48 handcrafted pewter offering, and it's splendid. After being built at Supermarine's Woolston works, K5054 was dismantled and transported to Eastleigh for its first flight, on March 5,1936, with Vickers-Armstrong Chief Test Pilot Joseph 'Mutt' Summers at the controls. Apparently, no 'snags' were reported during the sortie, for which the aircraft was partially covered in primer and the rest of the airframe was unpainted.
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