Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix.

The one thing you have always been able to rely on Airfix to provide the modelling world with is an impressive selection of classic scale aircraft model kits across several different scales, something which helped inspire a great many young people on their career journeys to become engineers, pilots, or to simply continue enjoying this great hobby of ours. In our previous edition, we unveiled our latest ‘secret’ scale tribute to a later variant incarnation of one of the finest aircraft of the Second World War, and we’re returning to similar subject matter for this latest update, albeit in a larger scale.

Regarded as arguably the most famous aircraft in the history of flight, but unquestionably the highest profile design to come from the British aviation industry, the Supermarine Spitfire served throughout the Second World War and beyond, with ever more examples undergoing restoration to airworthy condition, such is the enduring fascination with this aircraft. Our new kit subject for this latest edition really is something special, only the second stand alone kit release from this particular tooling, and a release which charts the post war career of a true stalwart of the historic aviation scene here in the UK. This kit presents the same aircraft in three different scheme guises spanning almost 70 years of flying.