Airfix Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I 1:48 (A05126B)

The natural next step after a 1:72 Spitfire. At 1:48 this early Mk.I spans 232 mm and has 149 parts, enough for a properly busy cockpit and crisp panel lines, yet it is still rated Skill Level 2, so it rarely fights back. The three schemes make it more than another Battle of Britain fighter: a No. 19 Squadron machine at Duxford in August 1938, the month the RAF's first Spitfires arrived; a Mk.Ia at a training school in Egypt in 1942; and a French air force Spitfire captured by Axis forces in 1940. Pick the 1938 option for clean pre-war markings, or the French one for a conversation piece nobody else's shelf has.