Wim van der Luijt
wow...that sounds pretty dismal...was the rest of the lot ok?

Calvin Gifford Autor
Oh yeah. Three nice 1/72 1963 vintage Revell WWII planes, a gator-freighter, and two other 1/72 Starfix kits - but those are copies of other molds so they will be OK. Paid US $18.85 for the lot so I can't really complain too much! LOL Gonna see if one of my Mono/Revell Spitfire canopies will work. Got some old ESCI Italian decals for a No. 4 Stormo(?) that I can use on this old hash-together.

Wim van der Luijt
for 18 bucks you can't go wrong.....hope the canopy will work out

Calvin Gifford Autor
👍

Choppa Nutta
That Starfix Spit kit sounds like a good candidate for some scratch'n'bash 😄

Calvin Gifford Autor
The wings are about a scale foot short - not too noticeable. The fuselage, however, is about THREE AND A HALF SCALE FEET short! ROFL - but the Mono/Revell canopy will fit. With modifications, of course. It also benefited from some spare cockpit parts from an ICM kit that got a resin upgrade. 🙂

Choppa Nutta
There's definitely an art to making bad old kits come good 🙂
sounds like you've got a good plan for this one 🙂

Wim van der Luijt
wow....that is way off!

Rex
You know, some Spitfire model builder from the old days might help you figure out which tooling that was made from. Since Starfix kits were copies of other company's kits, an old Spit modeler would recognize a tooling that was that far off for you. (Starfix' lack of quality was never caused by them, you know)

Rex
oh, let me clarify my quality comment. Kit copiers are responsible in some part for their quality, because they could have chosen different kits to copy.
The sneaky part that people don't realize is that for every "crappy Starfix" kit that was out there,,,,,,,there was the exact same model in one of our beloved "mainstream companies" boxes.

Hasegawa and Starfix T-38 could exactly swap parts between them, as could the Starfix and Airfix A-4. (except for that crude refueling probe that Starfix added to the tooling)

Calvin Gifford Autor
Don't know what kit they copied this one from. But it certainly was NOT the early Monogram one! Anyway, I found a volunteer to pilot it, and have cobbled together enough decals to make something of an Italian Spitfire late/post war. Also found some 20mm cannon barrels from some long-forgotten Spit that did not need them for that wing. If I can get the fuselage buttoned up and the 1:1 scale rivets off of the fuselage at least by the end of this weekend I will consider it progress.