Preview The New 1/35 Border Models 1/35 Spitfire Mk. Vb (All new plastic model kit )

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[@paulmoore5401]

Nice review Andy. I like the way you go through the instructions and allow the viewer to pause at their will.

[@wheelsdeal]

Thanks Border Models... 1/35 Spitfire might actually get me into airplanes. Matches my armor stuff.

[@rattussapiens2854]

You’re not wrong - 1/35 is also ‘diorama scale’, just think of all the Miniart accessories… I could see myself getting into one of these, armchair reviewer complaints don’t mean much to me.

[@mikesal56]

Nice job Andy! Looks Great, love the 1/35 kits!!!!

[@863rafael]

Wow! That looks amazing!

[@paulsawyer2326]

That is one sweet looking kit!

[@danwilliams1686]

Just pre ordered mine!

[@edmundlee7677]

Running out of space to store the newer 1/35 scale builds…lol. Keep them coming 👍😂

[@mrstacyj9496]

Thanks for sharing. Built my first Spitfire (Revell 1/32 Mk 1) back in 1974? (or so). Always a favorite.

[@user-fo6ud3zs2o]

....отличный набор! достоен того что-б купить и собрать....

[@scottbuildsthemall5124]

Thanks for video Andy! The moldings look pretty good and hopefully the plane builds up without any issues. As others mentioned, the roundels are out of register, so they will need to be masked and painted unless there is an aftermarket decal option.

[@grin1972]

Sooo...next video is building this beauty? Am I right?

[@bjordango]

Must have

[@kimvoss3479]

Sweet

[@didierfrenga5101]

Toujours formidables .....

[@donfrandsen7778]

Wow!!! Andy loving these!!! Great video !!!

[@darkwood777]

I would love to have a 1/35 Piper L-4 "Grasshopper" spotter plane with PTO and ETO marking options.

[@PeterMooshammer]

Bronco did that one. But it’s an older kit

[@rickputt5029]

Thanks Andy, as always, for the reviews! Really like this scale because it matches my extensive armor collection. Hope they will come out with a 262, or some bombers. Three quarters of my collection is German armor. I also have a very extensive 1/48 scale aircraft collection, so if this 1/35 trend continues, and I hope it does, I'm going to need another room for displays😊

[@Octopootie1]

They've already made 1/35 109 and Fw 190 kits

[@johndillon8051]

The kit looks very nice and the price is right. Being no expert on the Spitfires, I would have liked to see color call-outs on the cockpit, engine, and other interior areas.

[@Swellington_]

damn thats beautiful

[@sonicimperium]

Mig is also wearing a green Andy's t-shirt in his latest video.

[@keithyork7691]

Why do the horizontal tail got what looks to be a fabric covering. All Spitfire marks had metal eponage only the control surfaces, being fabric covered.

[@SEMJW]

Same mistake on 1/24 Trumpeter Spitfires.

[@timorvet1]

@@SEMJW And the Hobby Boss 1/32 Spitfire as well, this looks to be a copy of that kit.

[@lucferrari3109]

I have the Kate, the stretched skin on that looks awesome, pass on the spitfire, have Tamiya 1/32 and Airfix 1/24

[@ekspatriat]

1/35 means diorama heaven. Mixing wheeled and tracked with aircraft means at least Border are using common sense.

[@railgun751]

THAT JUST NICE ONE! LET'S GET START ANDY!

[@mikeantill1413]

Love your videos love your shop I can’t wait to visit it and how can I order the 1/16 scale 113 kit?

[@Rpantherluzero]

Andy it looks beautiful. Now, one question, how accurate is the spitfire

[@dragonflyfx6968]

I hope they make Trop version too . Looks like Zero is pushed on side after inaccuracy comments all over internet

[@LucasAgent]

Just one question about the fumes of the glue, do you hold your breath or does it really matter so long as you’re not doing it on purpose?

[@seantracy9109]

You didn't show the metal gun barrels or paint masks, were they not included in your kit?

[@williamkoppos7039]

Hmmmm one decal option. Can see this causing complaints, Somebody is going to have to make some 1/35 scale Spit sheets.

[@randyherbrechtsmeier9769]

When's He111 coming out? It's a Must Have

[@_Jaspy_]

Dude, a He111 in 1/35 scale would be a dream come true. I would buy it in a hart beat.

[@tonygary7611]

👍👍

[@panzermanful]

Nice

[@loki7441]

F sprue for fiddley parts 😄

[@mikefagan7619]

the register for the blue in the decals looks off

[@jamescharlton924]

Is it a former wingnuts? Also could we see you build this one please?

[@Octopootie1]

No, former wingnuts is Kotare. Border is Chinese, and based on their 1/35 Bf-109 I suspect they are related to Trumpeter.

[@charlesko9756]

Should Supermarine be one word?

[@johnnewman366]

Correct, one word. Clearly the idiots can’t spell, what else will be wrong?

[@scalecommonwealtharmour898]

This a re-scale and re-pop of the old Trumpeter 1/24th scale Vb/Vb Trop kits with all the accompanying errors that were listed when it was released, the same errors are repeated in the HobbyBoss 1/32nd kits. Wide fuselage, very obvious around the cockpit, thick wings, the prop and spinner are fictional. The Merlin engine is under-scale to fit under the cowling mouldings. The u/c bays are simple holes with walls, they don't represent the angles of the original captured in most modern Spitfires kits in almost every scale. The underwing radiator housing is flush with the wing surface and the tailplane upper surfaces are ribbed as if they are fabric covered. Finally the colours of the decals, especially the roundels, are very poor. The cockpit improvements amount to a more accurate pilots seat, the crowbar inside the access door is still moulded almost flush with the doors internal ribbing and as mentioned the fuselage is too wide meaning the real, snug Spitfire cockpit becomes more of a cosy seat beside the parlor fireplace! At the moment you can't expect the aftermarket boys to pick up the slack with resin improvements and new decals because these few Border kits are the only 1/35th aircraft on the market, there is no money to be made for the small AM guys. If you're happy to ignore the errors then go for it, but overall, this kit is a huge disappointment that could have been so much better, the errors are well documented and Border could have gone the extra mile with corrections.

[@MrSysadmin1975]

The kit looks good, but they'd rather reprint those decals... if the colurs in the video are close to what decal in real life is, then blue and red are wrong, and the proportions of fuselage roundel are questionnable too. And that's a problem in 35 scale, no source for replacement. And another thing... They have made stressed skin effect on Kate torp bomber, but not on this Spitfire... not sure about positive rivets - I see some access panel in the rear fuselage with positive heads, but all the rest seems negative. I have all of their 1:35 aircraft line-up (Stuka, Fw190, Bf109, Kate) but somehow I don't like this Spit :\

[@rohampasha9667]

wonder if they'll ever get into early cold war jets

[@Mike-mm4mx]

Just a thought about these 1/35 kits. If you mess up the decals or there is an issue with them in 1/35, as some have suggested with this kit, you are not going to be able to raid the spares box if you have built 1/48 or 1/32! That could prove an impediment though in the case of roundels, it should be easy enough to mask off and spray.

[@Xandina1]

I can see they've massively corrected the cockpit from the test shots a few month ago. Before hand the interior was completely fictional. It is much better now but not perfect, but what kit is perfect these days. I have Border's Kate due soon. I'll be thinking about this one but being British I've built so many Spitfires

[@FinsburyPhil]

My experience is that the only truly accurate Spitfire is the Kotare one. I see this one is showing rivets on the wing leading edge.

[@Xandina1]

@@FinsburyPhil you want the new Airfix 1/24 kit.

[@martinB68]

Yet another Spitfire!

[@randomnickify]

Different scale though

[@zal_models]

.... take my money....

[@michaelvalenzuela2528]

Stupid Question here: why not make Armor and Mil/veh. in 1/32 instead of down seizing the Aircraft?

[@johnvk7494]

Hell no!

[@michaelvalenzuela2528]

@@johnvk7494 😁😅😂🤑

[@russelltaylor535]

So, the kit still has one half of each of the horizontal stabilizers molded with ribbing as if they are fabric covered but the other halves are riveted, which they should be. I’m not impressed with how the landing gear attaches; Border didn’t even try to replicate the pivot point and retraction strut as other manufacturers have done even in 1/72. On the decals, the national insignia colours are far too bright for WWII roundels and fin flashes. They even look brighter than post war colours. I will say that Border fixed a lot of the errors with the cockpit from the initial test shots they showed that came from them basically copying the Trumpeter 1/24 Spitfire kit. Dimensionally that kit was suspect and it’s likely that this Border kit will share similar issues. The fabric covered stabilizers are a real head-scratcher; Trumpeter is the only other company to mold them that way, maybe based on a badly restored example? I just don’t know.

[@LemurKrazy]

For dioramas of tanks and aircraft together? Still makes no sense to me when 1/32 is the established aircraft scale.

[@kennethpemberton9864]

Well thanks for this dont look any beter than the hoby boss 1/32 very disapointed wont be getting this

[@stevecam724]

A bit piss-poor these days that they don't include weighted wheels. Cheap as chips to add weighted/unweighted wheels.

[@philliprhodes2299]

Those decals don’t look right. The blues are especially too bright compared to the instructions and box artwork.

[@brettpeacock9116]

Less impressed than I thought I would be. Some of the cockpit detail looks...well... at worst fictional, or, at best, over simplified (eg The Instrument panel and seat) Only 1 marking option and the Roundel colours look Very Wrong (Blue is too bright and the red is also too bright). The Spitfires's wings, like the P-51, were filled and smoothed, with no visible rivets and the rivets on the rear parts of the fuselge were raised domes. And the Exhausts are basically wrong. I cannot speak to the canopy but the windscreen definitely seemed a bit wide at the rear frame. It kind of looks like the old Hasegawa kit downscaled and redetailed. And it is Border, so the instructions will be, at best, inadequate - lacking many details' colour painting guides. I am not keen on nay-saying a kit unseen, but this is not promising, sadly. I will stick to 1/32 and my Kotare Spitfires.

[@SEMJW]

Before writing a comment I scrolled down and read yours, Brett. You wrote all of what I would have. I believe the Kotare kits are the best, most accurate out of the box for what I have seen. They are worth the price. After two 1/32 Tamiya Mk.IXcs, and many other aircraft in the scale it was time for some 1/24. I am almost done, two of four Airfix Mk.IXcs that are going to be George Beurling MA585 and Johnnie E Johnson EN398, posed in flight on custom stainless steel stands with balanced (no wobble), motored propellers and two, one of a kind, seated pilots. Using Paul H Monforton's reference book as one of the sources for correcting/modifying/improving the kit. One of the big issues that I have pointed out to YT builders is the need for filling the rivet detail on the leading D box section of the wings. That the flush rivets overall would be no deeper than the thickness of a Tamiya decal and the kit detail should be modified if scale accuracy was desired. I have posted a video of an Official RAF Training film on my channel that instructs the preparation and application of paint on High Speed aircraft during the war. It proves the use of putty and primer filler to cover rivet recesses and uneven surfaces on the leading edge of the wings. Also posted are some interesting walkaround and flying videos of a Canadian Spitfire that you may like if not seen before. A oddly accurate part of this BM kit is the PE wheel well walls that have positive rivets. I had to use 0.25 mm solder balls to fit into the recessed detail on the Airfix kit to correct. Also, the tailplane has a fabric cover half to be mated with a metal half. Trumpeter 1/24 Mk. V and VII kits made the same mistake.

[@rossdugdale8612]

But it has a (probably undersized)engine and is covered in divots so most modellers will be happy, personally I'll stick to the Kotare kit.

[@markfranks1329]

@@SEMJW Painted European scheme Spits might have had fillers covering the recessed rivets but I can assure you there were some that weren't. My Father flew Mk VIIIs in Australia and though they were brand new machines, fresh off the boat from Castle Bromwich, in a temperate European finish, the first thing the ground crews were instructed to do after assembly at the depots, was to remove all the paint from the metal parts of the airframe. This was a US requirement that all allied a/c in the PTO, at this time frame, had to be natural metal to distinguish them from Japanese types. (Hence no red in the roundels). The only colours that were permitted was a black anti-dazzle strip painted on the top cowl and coloured spinners to differentiate between Flights, (but not red!) and of course the propellers . He told me it made no difference to the performance such was the superlative design of the airframe. So, from a modeller's point of view, if you ever do a natural metal Spit, don't forget the rivets. 😄 As regards Trumpeter's Spitfires, I think you meant Mk VI and not VII. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm unaware that Trumpeter do a MkVII/VIII, do they?

[@SEMJW]

@@markfranks1329 You are correct Mk.V and VI in kit form only. Thank you for the information. Of course there were exceptions. The model builds I mentioned were all European area of operation Spits. As stated in the comment that refers to the requirement for RAF High Speed aircraft . The training film is on my channel to watch if interested it shows the processes so it is not a matter of, 'might have had fillers' I can assure you they were. 🤨One of my four Airfix kits will be built as G-IRTY the Silver Spitfire that is in bare metal so I do think the rivet detail is better to have with the option to fill to make level for when doing a High Speed application.

[@markfranks1329]

@SEMJW Thank you for your response and information, too. Modelling Spitfires will always encourage healthy debate and that's what makes our hobby so interesting, educational and enjoyable. I concur with your impressions, and others, concerning this new offering from Border Model. On first inspection, it looks suspiciously like Trumpeter's 1/24 and Hobby Boss' 1/32 Spit Mk Vb but just to 1/35. Yes, there are errors with the decal colours and the cockpit details appear to be simplified but these are nothing any competent modeller with some experience could not rectify. My main concern is the apparent 'broadness' of the transparencies, particularly the windshield. That would be tricky to correct in this scale. Indeed, by comparison with Kortare's line up, this one does pale into insignificance somewhat. However, if one wants a 1/35 Spit to go with 1/35 vehicles, it's the only game in town.

[@Octopootie1]

I'm primarily an aircraft modeler, and I see no point in Border's choice of 1/35 scale aircraft outside of armor modelers who want to dabble in aircraft and have it be in scale with their tanks. Despite your claim, there is little to no aftermarket support for these kits, and I rarely see other aircraft modelers build them. Their first release, the 1/35th Bf 109 was clearly a downscaled Trumpeter 109. I have two of the Trumpeter 109's, which are not great kits, and the similarities between the Border kit, and Trumpeter are too many to ignore or call a coincidence. Sorry but Kotare, Zoukei Mura, and Tamiya's 1/32 aircraft are all superior to Border's attempts. If you simply must make a large scale Spit Mk. V, just wait for Kotare's version. Unless, you have to make a Mk. V with an engine capable of being displayed, that's the only niche this kit serves.

[@johnvk7494]

Blablabla

[@randomnickify]

And I don't see a point in 1/32 existing anymore, switching everything to 1/35 makes much more sense now. As for aftermarket support - you can build entire city around this spitfire - tools, figures, buildings, vehicles, you can put it in a barn and have bunch of chickens roosting on it, the diorama market in 1/35 is immense.

[@Octopootie1]

@@randomnickify The difference is 1/32 has been a standard in aircraft for decades, and at one point was the dominant scale. When I said aftermarket, I meant upgrades designed specifically for the kit, wheels, exhausts, decals etc. I know there's some of it for these kits, but not nearly as much a there is for 1/32 or 1/48. Dio's are cool and all, and can be very impressive, but I don't have space for that, and given how few of them you tend to see at shows it seems most ppl don't either. My main issue with Border, is again, they appear to be another Trumpeter/Hobby Boss/I ♥️ Kit sister company. And while they make some decent kits ww2 aircraft is not their strength. Lots of accuracy issues, massive "rivets" etc.

[@_Jaspy_]

Exactly!

[@johnnewman366]

It’s not ‘Super marine’, it should be ONE WORD, ‘Supermarine’, it’s wrong on the box and the instructions too. Well... if they can’t spell things properly, what else will be wrong? Pathetic.

[@AtlisWerks]

Anyone who knows a bit about Spitfires can clearly see that it's a caricature and a total garbage that is closer to eggplanes than to a real thing. Not worth a dime.

[@samantharoberts351]

1/35 shiit ? Nice but not for me

[@chadgun4135]

Box looks a bit tatty tbh

[@destinyangel5]

Much better than that $120 usd overpriced and expensive Kotare version 1/32 that has no engine . This Border 1/35 should be cheaper and much better value as well with full details, engine and with the bonus of matching all 1/35 scale popular vehicles and figures .

[@nigelsmith7366]

Ignorance is bliss... Lol you don't know anything about the Kotare Spitfire lol

[@destinyangel5]

@@nigelsmith7366 Oh thats right there 25 more raised rivets near the tail in the Kotar version .

[@davew3130]

I have two of the Kotare Spitfire releases, and maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but doubt this Border release will even come close to accuracy and engineering quality of Kotare.

[@destinyangel5]

@@davew3130 We can see Border is producing exceptional 1/35 scale value, great quality of lots details with their latest mouldings, EG zero , Stuka , bf 109, FW. Maybe there is variations in the amount of actual rivets raised and flush and a few panel lines , this is problem for those who are counting them . Even on the Kotare they say some of the markings /decal can't be verified as being true and accurate in their instructions.None of the offerings are perfect and Im still puzzled why it needed costing so much and no engine supplied its just not competitive against 1/32 Spitfire Tamiya super detailed kit variants. I don't buy into " the plastic is better or the engineering is , they are all good today and the Tamiya gives you the super detailed engine.

[@StandByShields]

You're kidding right? The Kotare is so much better

[@wwiiinplastic4712]

I have to pass as it will look undersized next to my 1/32 specimens.