{"id":1915,"date":"2020-04-18T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vexillummilitaris.co.uk\/?page_id=1915"},"modified":"2024-01-18T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T18:05:09","slug":"seafire-mk-xv-home-service","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vexillummilitaris.co.uk\/?page_id=1915","title":{"rendered":"Supermarine Seafire Mk XV (RCN)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Airfix Seafire Mk XV of the Royal Canadian Navy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Seafire Mk XV converted from Spitfire Mk XII with Seafire XVII wings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

This is the Airfix Supermarine Spitfire Mk XII kit cross-kitted with the spare wings from their Seafire Mk XVII kit, plus some addition items. The build took me about 9 years to complete as it sat on my ‘shelf of doom’ for much of that time.<\/p>\n

The final finished build shown in the photographs represents a Supermarine Seafire Mk XV, serial PR479, “L”, of 803 Squadron on board HMCS Warrior during November 1947.<\/p>\n

In the photographs – and it’s not meant to be a diorama, just a bit of scene dressing – the truck is the Airfix 1\/76 AEC tanker, there’s a 1\/48 scale Airfix trolley acc. chocks, and in the distance is 1\/300 scale Bedford trucks and Dodge weapons carrier. There’;s also an scratch-built RNAS Mainhill hangar made from card in the same 1\/300th scale. The back scene is a photo I took on the way home from work last year, in 2019 – just south of the Thames at Lechlade – and printed on 3 sheets of A4\/letter paper (I photoshop’d out the seam lines). And the whole lot is plonked on a war hammer play mat and bit card to represent the hardstanding\/pan.<\/p>\n

Additional items used in this build:<\/p>\n