PR Mk.IV Trop, BS491, of 542 Squadron, RAF, Gibraltor, 1943, this one finished in overall PRU Blue.Adrian Warburton of No.69 Squadron, based in Malta, 1942, finished overall in Royal Blue PR Mk.IV Trop, BR416 of No.2 PRU, based at Marbel Arch, North Africa, 1942, finished mainly in white, with Royal Blue upper surfaces, meaning just the tops of the wings and horizontal tail pieces, along with just the top of the fuselage.Decals – nicely printed and in register – are for the following three Spitfires: Very little to no distortion and the piece really looks great. Sword has done an exceptional job molding the blisters on the side of the canopy. In fact, a word on the clear pieces, especially the canopy. The Sword 1/72 Spitfire PR Mk.IV consists of 58 pieces of gray injected plastic and five pieces of clear injected plastic. Most modelers prefer injected plastic, so the Sword kit is the best in that regard. You do receive a lot of options in a CMR kit but you have to be willing to work in resin and photoetch. However, they are resin and you will pay almost double what a Sword kit costs. The Czech Master Resin (CMR) kits are still considered the best 1/72 Spitfires in existence, regardless of material. With the Sword kit you don't have to worry if the panel lines are too deep and wide (which they're not – they're very nice for the scale) and you don't have to worry about cutting up the kit to turn it into a PR Spitfire (unless you're adding the longer wing tips, but more on that later). Now that you've purchased an Airfix kit, the Pavla PR conversion, and maybe the Model Alliance decal sheet, you're at the cost of the Sword kit. Some consider the Airfix kits' panel lines way too wide and deep for the scale – plus, building a PR from the Airfix kit requires a conversion set from the likes of Pavla. For the full retail cost of a Sword Spitfire, you could almost buy four Airfix Spitfires for the same money. However, they are costly, which is why the new-tool Airfix Mk.I/Mk.II is extremely popular. Sword's 1/72 Spitfires are by far the best Spitfires in 1/72 in injected plastic on the market today.
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