Spitfire Mk.IX Engine Cover with Radiator

Published on
October 1, 2021
Review Author(s)
Scale
1/72
MSRP
$7.50
Product / Stock #
72 258
Base Kit
Hasegawa
Company: Quickboost - Website: Visit Site
Product

Quickboost is striving mightily to make enough sets for a modeler to make a perfect Spitfire Mk.IX, if that is possible. The latest by their own definition is a 1/72 scale engine cover with radiator. What you actually have is the lower engine cover with carburetor intake. The part is perfectly cast in Quickboost fine grain resin and it only took me a few minutes using a razor saw, snips and a sanding block to remove the casting gate.

I took down my Hasegawa kit #AP42, 1/72 Spitfire Mk.IX as Quickboost says the recommended kit is Hasegawa. The instructions states that this cast part “replace(s) kit part #F1 + F2.” Well, I beg to differ. If you look a photo 2, you’ll see the Quickboost part next to the lower engine cover/carburetor intake made from sprue E and the resin part is a match for it. In photo 3, you’ll see the Quickboost part next to the sprue F (parts 1 & 2) and it’s clear that the F sprue has a longer carburetor intake than the Quickboost part. If you intend to make the 1943 Spitfire model then by all means use the Quickboost part, but if you’re going to make the 1945 Spitfire model then use the F sprue that has the long carburetor intake.

Photo 4 shows that the Quickboost part perfectly fits the fuselage and as such I can recommend the use of this resin part, just as long as you know how to use it.

I want to thank IPMS/USA and Quickboost for the chance to review this product.

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