MAH1127 - Minicraft Hasegawa 1/32 Spitfire Vb - WWWEB10115887

MAH1127 - Minicraft Hasegawa 1/32 Spitfire Vb - WWWEB10115887

Preowned, Resealed, Mint inside, Box worn

The Spitfire Mk.Vb was the RAF's primary fighter variant through 1942–43, serving in virtually every theatre from the Channel Front to North Africa and Malta. Armed with two 20mm Hispano cannons and four .303 Brownings in the "B" wing, it replaced the earlier Mk.I/II on the production lines and was supplied in quantity to Commonwealth and Allied air forces. Its adaptability — through tropical filters, clipped wingtips, and revised powerplants — kept it operationally relevant well into the mid-war period.

This is Minicraft's 1979 North American rebox of Hasegawa's 1/32 Spitfire Mk.Vb tooling (originally released as Hasegawa S18). The kit offers several build options from a single set of parts.

Build Options:

• Standard Mk.Vb with full-span or clipped wingtips
• Mk.Vb Tropical with large Vokes carburetor air filter
• Mk.Vb Tropical with Aboukir filter (more compact desert variant)
• Choice of de Havilland or Rotol three-blade propeller/spinner combinations
• Alternative windscreens for internal or external armour glass installations
• Optional open cockpit side hatch

Box Contents:

• Plastic sprues (raised panel line surface detail)
• Clear sprue (canopy/gunsight)
• Waterslide decal sheet

Cockpit detail includes: cockpit floor with rudder pedals, control stick, multi-piece seat and armour, instrument panel with gunsight, oxygen bottles, and sidewall detail.