D-Day 80 Years: Building Airfix's 1/24 Spitfire Mk.IXc | Full Build in 4K

I really hope you guys enjoy this one! Took many hours, but I'm glad I could present it to you on such an historic day! If you've got any questions related to the build, feel free to drop them below! Note for channel members: The complimentary 'In-Focus' video, where I cover (in detail) my thought processes, references, and research behind the cockpit/engine builds, will be available on Saturday 8th of June onwards. Apologies for the slight delay, however I've been pretty bogged down with University exams this past week so haven't had time to finalise the edit. Many thanks for your patience!

Exceptional work! A few very minor points I would offer for your future endeavors. Framing in engine compartments on our birds tended to get dinged up quite a bit. Metal tools being maneuvered in tight spaces by tired men and women. Along those lines, lots of chipping around anything that's getting regular attention from maintainers. Maintaining planes is dirty work, so there are going to be dirty, oily hands constantly grabbing that framing for support. I would expect it to be a bit more grimy as this plane is clearly not fresh off the line. I would also expect to see some chipping on the forward wing root where a maintainer would stand while servicing the engine, cleaning the canopy, etc. I'm only climbing in and out of the cockpit once, maybe twice a day. The maintainers are climbing all over it a lot more often, and for much longer periods of time.

mannn I'm gonna have to watch that again, that was Spectacular, Well done !

Absolutely amazing! One of your best!

Personally I believe that we are faced with something that is too little to define as a masterpiece... I am amazed and speechless! Congratulations 👋🏻🇮🇹

Thank you!!! I've learned a lot of new painting methods from this video. FANTASTIC!!

To be honest, I am into plastic kits and exhibitions for 30 years. I build them by myself as well. But ... I have never seen such beautiful kit like this, truly amazing job. Perfect paintjob, nice weathering, perfect shadows.

Thank you for the information on needle size and pressure.

Outstanding build and point job. I will have to put this kit on my list. Just one thing (from a Spitfire nerd), the crowbar was interior green or bare metal throughout the war. Only restored aircraft have them painted red. Re the comments below on propellers: blades on the Rotol 3 blade props were manufactured by Jablo and were a wood composite with a hard metal mesh sheet and cellulose coating were pressed onto the outside of the blade; so some metal may have shown through with wear - a distinctive pattern can certainly be seen on some prop leading edges (I believe that there may also have been a brass protection strip applied to the leading edge). I have read that the four bladed Rotol props reintroduced duralumin blades. DH props I think all had duralumin blades.

wow, quite advanced and realistic.

Just here for the algorithm. Outstanding work, deserves far more exposure!

Outstanding work on the spitfire looks awesome

Man I love your clean and proffesional atmosphere in your videos. Its calming and very informational but not in a boring way. Rather in a fun and creative way! Keep up your work❤

That's an extraordinarily well finished Spitfire! I'm really not surprised that this took a year to complete, on and off...... such painstaking work on the painting. Not that my opinion is worth anything at all; but here it is anyway. Beautiful.........absolutely. 👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻

Outstanding Spitfire, really like the paintjob and weathering being not overdone. Congrats and keep up good work!

Superbly executed, MW! I was partiularly taken by your method of undershading. And the chipping effect about the ingress to the cockpit .... the most realistic I've seen yet. Cheers Rhys

Great build. Enjoy your summer at the bench!

I have just received a 1:24 Spitfire from a work colleague at a bargain price (£60). It will be my 1st ever attempt at such a massive scaled kit. Some great tips n tricks within this build.

Beautiful video build, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Thanks for that it was excellent, your attention to detail is brilliant and the finished model is fantastic, well done.