A friend of mine picked up this in a junk shop for 50p.
The aircraft is a two-piece solid casting, it’s light enough to be aluminium but with highly polished coating, the base and stand are similar and screwed together. It’s roughly 1/72nd scale, unmistakably Spitfire, albeit with a little naivity, an oversized HF aerial mast and missing aerial. There may possibly have been a tailwheel at some previous pointand the decals; which could quite easily have been later, ‘Airfix’ additions, have seen better days. The central section of the stand is quite a defined letter ‘G’ shape.
It could, of course, simply be an ornamental piece, but I wondered if any of you recognised it as some sort of promotional item…
By: WJ244 - 18th April 2009 at 16:09
The location of the aerial, shape of the canopy and slighty wavy edges to the wingtips suggest to me that someone took a mould from a model made from one of the old solid wood kits like Skybirds which were around in the 1940’s/50’s before Airfix came along.
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April 18, 2009 at 12:46 pm