Spitfire or Hurricane replica ?

Thanks for the info guys !

The replica is not for me personally, but would be for the Irish Air Corps museum collection.

Cheers.
Panther.

(www.irishairpics.com)

I’ll have one of each please! 😀

Then you might want to look at this:
http://www.spitfirespares.co.uk/

Panther – are you after something like this:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/703628/L/

Does anybody here know the approximate cost of a Spitfire or Hurricane replica ?

…….And a link to a relevant website ?

You could always build your own. I’m only building the cockpit section, frame 5 to 13.
Spitfire Project

I can’t think of the name of the company, but several full-scale Hurricane replicas were made for the Kent Battle of Britain Museum recently – VERY realistic! 🙂

What I have in mind is a display-only Spitfire replica (for museum display).

Are Hurricane replicas available ?

Panther – it depends what kind of replica you’re looking for. Certain scaled down ones have been built, but mostly as one-offs, and it’s no good asking about plans-built ones (around 75%) because they’re ALL different!!

Supermarine’s Spitfire Mk26 (not the ACTUAL Supermarine, mind) costs about £38,000 for the kit (sans engine, instruments etc), BUT if you’re talking about a full-sized flying replica like the MJ100 featured elsewhere recently, you’re talking a bit less than $250,000 all told.

A mate of mine from New Zealand is actually going to have a MkIX built for him by a company in the States – cost around $350,000.

Thanks guys.

I heard the figure of stg£20,000 mentioned before alright.

I didn’t know that flying replicas were available ?
What kind of cost are we looking at in that case ?

Nah, Hasegawa do ’em cheaper than that!

On the subject of plastic models, a few years ago I bought a 1960s Airfix model – a collector’s items still in it’s original packaging and in mint condition. The model was a Bristol Bulldog.

A few weeks later I visited Duxford and their museum shop – only to find the same model in modern packaging, which was more expensive that the collector’s item.

If its a static replica, you will be looking at around £20,000.

Septic.

Nah, Hasegawa do ’em cheaper than that!

If its a static replica, you will be looking at around £20,000.

Septic.

Are we talking a flying one, or a GRP static gateguard job??

Daz, I think your input is needed on this thread!! 😀