Spitfire Replica – How much???

Wow! these are great gents, thank you. Please keep them comming!

Baz, I hope for your wife’s sanity that you have a little more garden…………………if not fair play old fruit!

Kind Regards

Gav

Sacked wife:)

Bought Spitfire:diablo:

Amazing!

Wow! these are great gents, thank you. Please keep them comming!

Baz, I hope for your wife’s sanity that you have a little more garden…………………if not fair play old fruit!

Kind Regards

Gav

Size matters?

If size is a concern,although nothing a guy likes to admit.Just build a cockpit section,plug it into a Pc system with a FlightSim and have a ball.Check the net for how to,s.:D Or call up NialPatty here on the forum.The museum he is at just built two.
Here is ours so far.We are building to take around to shows plus to give us experience in doing tinwork so we don,t stuff up the real thing.:o
Yes we make heaps of stuff ups..Lots of them:(

mk IX EN398

cheers

Baz

EN 398

It has been amazing to learn how many of you guys actually own Spitfire replicas, the real thing or have project builds on the go.

Wpuld it be rude? inapropriate? to ask if any of you would post a few pics of your belved treasures? No problem if not, I just thought that it would be great to see what can be acheived with time, money and a bundle of will power.

Thanks

Gavin

cheers

Baz

Can I see your Spits?

It has been amazing to learn how many of you guys actually own Spitfire replicas, the real thing or have project builds on the go.

Wpuld it be rude? inapropriate? to ask if any of you would post a few pics of your belved treasures? No problem if not, I just thought that it would be great to see what can be acheived with time, money and a bundle of will power.

Thanks

Gavin

Oh Poo!

That seems correct. Perhaps you should go for a Spitfire Cockpit only to start with! You cant get one wing in a standard double garage!!

Hi Robert, I just noticed your pic – well that’s just put the nail in the coffin, Is that really a Spit? I have been up close many times but your picture puts everything into perspective. I don’t have a stantard tandom garage, it was purposly built for a chap who owned three milk carts, and then was used by a chap to keep two massey fergursons in but according to your pic – not even my aspestoss roofed garage will sufice.

Thanks for this picture kind sir

Regards

Gavin

Oh we’re just one big happy family….

With regards to the FSM, they don’t need hangaring, or insuring, or annuals,and you can paint them whatever colour you want, without pages and pages on forums (such as this) deliberating what shade of meduim sea grey was used by 601 sqn between late ’41, and mid ’42 etc, etc; best of both worlds buy a FSM to look at, and fly spam.

Remember that there are many days you cant fly because its too windy, its raining etc etc so to have something in your garage you can potter with is a plus. (You don’t earn any points from the missus for working in the garage instead of going to the pub)

Exactly right and for someone who has collected stuff like yourself you can talk the talk and walk the walk.It is very much our special little club.:diablo:
Only the insane ones need apply.Best of luck mate with whatever you achieve.:D

Oh we’re just one big happy family….

With regards to the FSM, they don’t need hangaring, or insuring, or annuals,and you can paint them whatever colour you want, without pages and pages on forums (such as this) deliberating what shade of meduim sea grey was used by 601 sqn between late ’41, and mid ’42 etc, etc; best of both worlds buy a FSM to look at, and fly spam.

Give us a clue Moggy!!

No sarcasm intended.

Merely pointing out the essential differences between owning an aeroplane and owning a 1/1 model

Both would be the best of all worlds, but if you have to select which one to go for first…. It’s a no-brainer

Moggy

How?

The difference between 17k and 24k gets you a real ppl

Sharing the ownership of a flying aircraft (rather than a 1/1 kit) makes lots of sense. You don’t need the £96k, all the bills are divided by four, you get to fly, not sit on the ground making ‘Brrrrrm’ noises through your lips

Moggy

Appreciate your sarcasm however, I fly as often as I like

cheers

Baz

It,s a world wide love affair

Thanks QLD, remember me if you ever do win the lottery. I have enjoyed collecting Spit items and have met some great people in the process. The good thing is I can still marvel at what other people have achieved, can still pop up to Duxford and real Spits flying AND save a lot of money in the process!!

Exactly right and for someone who has collected stuff like yourself you can talk the talk and walk the walk.It is very much our special little club.:diablo:
Only the insane ones need apply.Best of luck mate with whatever you achieve.:D

Thanks QLD, remember me if you ever do win the lottery. I have enjoyed collecting Spit items and have met some great people in the process. The good thing is I can still marvel at what other people have achieved, can still pop up to Duxford and real Spits flying AND save a lot of money in the process!!

But think of the camera lenses you could buy for that money….

And you could have change for a stepladder

How many own it? 4 = 96k

17k becomes more appealing

How?

The difference between 17k and 24k gets you a real ppl

Sharing the ownership of a flying aircraft (rather than a 1/1 kit) makes lots of sense. You don’t need the £96k, all the bills are divided by four, you get to fly, not sit on the ground making ‘Brrrrrm’ noises through your lips

Moggy

No, you are not weird at all. I can fully understand your position and it is understandable. You are also in good company, the rather wonderful Robert Rudhall was a true aviation enthusiast and hated flying. I have no idea of the reasons but he would only willingly fly in the Lancaster.

But, I cannot understand people who get very passionate and opinionated about flying and the history of flying but willingly and blindly spent large amounts of cash avoiding actually doing it.

I can understand an interest in aviation engineering and the historical context of how these machines developed. A cockpit section built to the original drawings is one thing, but a plastic Spitfire shaped lump in a garage is not worth losing the significant other for. It is an Airfix kit and means nothing. It is not a Spitfire, it will never BE a Spitfire and you will learn nothing other than how much glass fibre irritates the skin.

17 grand is a PPL, a tailwheel rating and a share in an historic aeroplane

I know what I would do
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Hi Billy, very sensible suggestion, just learn to fly instead! I clocked up about 15 hours at Staveron in a Robin + countless hours years ago in a chipmonk and bulldog during my beloved CCF days. However ( big bummer) I some how have developed a proper fear of flying. I’m probably the oly one out there who loves aircraft but is not to keen on what they do. I lost a close friend and a family member to a flying accident and now i’m petrified of flying.

I know it’s like haveing a Ferrari GTO in the garage and never driving it but it’s the machines themselves I love……..am I weird??

Gavin, I’m letting my Spit project go if you are interested. I have a full set of NS4 Grade frames, original radio, spade grip, seat, control column, instrument panel with fittings, undercarriage with wheels etc. etc. Let me know if you might be interested. I might consider a part exchange of your girlfriend if it helps

Sorry to hear that your letting it go.Pity I have no cash at the moment,no I didn,t win lotto this week…Sounds like you have a nice collection of stuff.Good luck with things.Never know how things turn out..

Hi Gavin, yes I have the complete screen frame, fillets side perspex and original armoured glass, complete with original half apple mirror fitted to it. Also have original canopy and frame plus a spare. I have been collecting for the past five years now. I’ll put a list together and try and find your email address on here. Would rather see it all go as is to a good home!!

There is an alternative – yes, buy it and restore it. If space is at a premium, why not loan it to a museum collection? I for one would have need of one or five replica Spits if my project becomes more than just a headache…. The aircraft remains your property, you can work on it anytime, they get a useful exhibit, you get to keep your missus…

This worked very well at Southend 30 odd years ago. The museum got to use TB863 as an attraction – and they got plenty of mileage out of it by plastering “see the Spitfire” across every ad and handbill that they printed – and Bill Francis got far better facilities to work on the airframe than he had when it was squeezed into his back garden.
As long as you make sure the museum is reputable and not one where you are likely to turn up one day and find the place locked up and empty then it should work for everyone.
Alternatively you could always do what car collector Albert Obrist did years ago- extend the grage and build a glass wall so that you can sit on the settee and gaze at your pride and joy (the aeroplane – oh and maybe the girlfriend as well) whenever you feel like it.