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Question; Starfix Scale Accuracy

Really off topic....this is a modeling question

My son just got a Supermarine Spitfire F. Mk. 21 from Starfix. Box has the scale at 1/48. The plane looked a bit small, so we went to

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The Flightline - A WWII Aviation Archive and checked dinensions on a Supermarine Spitfire clipped wing, Wing span says 32 feet 2 inches, model wing span is 6.375 inches. That worked out to 1/61 scale, not the quoted 1/48 on the box.

Are these people always that far off on scale? Has anybody else had this problem? I mean the scale is not a real problem if you know what you're getting, but to say one thing and get another......well.... Mike G.

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mike G.
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Both Spitfires and both Messerschmitt 109s are badly offscale. Their 1/72nd scale Alpha Jet, Mustang, F-5 and T-38 (really an F-5B) are better (being reverse-engineered from other makers')...but the A-4 Skyhawk and the Zerosen are dogs. Their space shuttle is good only as a source for spare sci-fi parts. Haven't built their helicopters or their Galaxy transport.

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922 "Beware the Zealots, for while they may believe in a great many things, there is one thing they will never believe in: life, liberty, justice or mercy for anybody other than themselves."--Tepid 11:03

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Stephen "FPilot" Bierce

Let's just say you can't use the term Starfix in a sentence that includes words like "accuracy" or even "kit". I assume your son is too young to drink,as he can't really expect that thing to ever look like a spitfire without. They are good for a joke tho.

BTW guys.I've seen some bagged starfix kits on ebay being sold from England including some types I didn't know they made,such as a F-104.Who did they copy these from?

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Eyeball2002308

Hmm... 'Starfix' and 'scale accuracy' - there's a contradiction in terms. :-)

RobG

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Rob Grinberg

The 104 is actually reverse engineered from the ancient Frog Supermarine Scimitar... or so I've been told. :-)

RobG

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Rob Grinberg

That would be a piece of engineering. Of course if it's Starfix it only has to resemble an F-104 not be one.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

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Mad-Modeller

Y.G.B.S.M.!!! ;^)

Martin

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Martin

Oh, he's old enough....he's 29. He got one of the Messerschmitts too, that thing has the wings all wrong plus a few other things. He said well....live and learn! There won't be any more from that company thats for sure! Mike G.

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mike G.

I sold both of those on E-bay last year and advertised them as some of the worst kits I'd ever seen but they might be good for painting technique practise. Strangely, they sold for more than I paid for them!

Bill Banaszak, MFE

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Mad-Modeller

No, no, no... the Frog Scimitar was a copy of the Heller Criquet.(Fiesler Storch). That's why it went together so well. :-)

RobG

Supermarine

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Rob Grinberg

eh?

RobG

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Rob Grinberg

You got it! Although there are those who maintain that it was actually from 'The Sovreign of the Seas', but I don't agree.

RobG Let's stop now - this is getting silly!

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Rob Grinberg

Definition: You Gotta Be Shi***ng Me!

;^)

Martin

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Martin

I'd argue it was a liquid,but starfix can only be built with tubes...lots and lots of tubes of glue...or welded...

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Eyeball2002308

All right, put those tubes of glue down right now, both of you!

Bill Banaszak, MFE

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Mad-Modeller

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