Been thinking about changing Spot's nick name from "The Grey Shadow" to "Spot... the trip hazard"

Think I have caught a bug.... for Spitfires and the Wooksta! must surely be to blame

After buying a couple of 1/48 scale Spitfire bits and pieces which included the Aeroclub Mk 14/21 fuselage kit to allow you to use both sets of wings from the Airfix Seafire to create a 21 if you build the Seafire as a 47 with folded wings. Anyway, that got me thinking of how similar the Airfix 1/72 PR XIX fuselage was and how well that would work with the late wing from the Mk 22 and well one thing is leading to another so I am resurrecting the sorting out of Spitfire parts in my stash to produce a myriad of aircraft, mainly late Spits as I like them a little better than the others. This has produced "
A Plan" not to be confused with "The Plan" which is the Wooksta's!especially as this plan is only real world.
So far the idea is this:
- PR XIX, almost straight from the box, different decals and a vac form canopy.
- Mk 21, with 5 bladed prop. this will consist of a PR XIX fuselage with wings from a Mk22 and decals from a sheet I found stuffed in a book on camouflage and markings in the UK post WWII. Extra bits and pieced such as tailplanes from the spares box.
- Mk 21, with contra-rotating prop. As above but with the prop coming from the old Aeroteam F21 issued by Eduard and the tail fin from a Mk XVIII by Freightdog. Decals as above and all the parts are in the stash and in fact are now in the same box
- Mk XIVc, Fuselage from a XIX with wings from an Airfix IXc, just need a spare set of Airfix XIX radiators to build this as I have both kits in the stash.
- Mk XIVe, Fuselage from one of the Mk 22's that had its wings taken for either 2 or 3 above with the wings from either of those re-scribed and adapted to become an 'e' wing with the aid of parts from the spares box.
- Mk XVIII, As 5 above but with the addition of a Freightdog Mk XVIII tail.
- Mk 22, As per the box with a Freightdog improvement set and decals from the previously mentioned decal sheet.
- Mk 24, Almost straight from the box, just need to shorten the cannon barrels. Decals from Legato as an 80 Squadron machine.
Total number of kits so far for this little project is PR XIX's x 2, MK 22's x 4 although I am missing a set of PR XIX wings which The Wooksta! has kindly said he will donate
Quite a fair amount of work especially matching the wings to the fuselages, mainly at the front and rear of the wings but that's part of the fun in modelling

Gondor