Metal EarthSupermarine Spitfire 3D Metal Model Kit

The instructons could do with some explanatory text in places, it's easy to miss a step and difficult to go back if you do.Need - Fine strong tweezers, flat side cutters, small pliers and something like a small art paint brush. There are some parts that need to be curved and a thin dowel or brush handle is a good way to do that.A little glue to hold the more shooglie parts after it's built.

Love these, will buy more

A very good and enjoyable little kit to start working on, for this type of model. Challenging but fairly straightforward. This is not a clip together 10 minute toy. Its a fiddly, and at times trying, model that will take a few hours to complete, with care and attention. Not for children under 14.

Lovely thanks

Worst one ive bought tabs and holes dont line up and bottom wing does match too big

Speedy delivery and well packaged. Much smaller than I was expecting - the metal sheets are just larger than A6 size! But I am keeping the product as the detailing looks amazing. Not yet been built as it is a gift.

Having had such good results with the lighthouse and seeing the Spitfire was also rated as ‘easy’, I decided to have a go.Hmmm. Well, experienced model makers or seasoned users of the other kits might regard this as easy - I struggled.Maybe I didn’t pay enough attention to the instructions, or maybe I was overconfident after the success with the lighthouse & thought I’d do even better with this? I’m not sure.At any rate, the final result was disappointing, with pieces that didn’t quite fit together properly, uneven curves & wobbly tail fins.I think it’s more down to me than the actual model & maybe I’ll buy another at some point & try again with the benefit of hindsight. It’s put me firmly in my place with regard to my model making skills though & I won’t be trying anything other than ‘easy’ ones for the foreseeable future.

I had the cutters, pliers and metal rollers as advised by the company.Anyway the pieces are difficult to remove from the punched template. You have to becareful so as not to bend nor crimp the pieces. It is very easy to break pieces off.The instructions are not very clear especially when it came to putting the fuselage together with the tail pieces. By then you see that had you not put the fuselage together it would have been really easy to put the tail pieces on easily. By then trying to get the tail pieces to fit the struts broke off. By then it was you can’t really do anything with a plane with a missing tail.My package and metal pieces will be making their way into recycling.My problem with these kits are if you have big hands as I do then trying to make these kits will not work for you. I had the R2D2 as well. It was near on impossible to put together. That will be in recycling as well.Some pieces have crimps in them whereby you are only given one part to make it if all 4 pieces come off where the folds are you are basically somewhere without a paddle. You can’t continue with the building of the item.The slot holes are so small you can’t really see through them. You don’t know if the the tab has gone through the slot. You then find everything falls to pieces because the tab you thought you had put into the slot you hadn’t.I really cannot recommend this at all. It is a total waste of money.The concept looks great but putting the item together needs some work on it because as far as I am concerned this item isn’t fit for purpose.