What would you choose?

[43rdRecceReg]

For around £5,000, you could pre-order Armortek's latest mouth-watering (and divorce-inducing) Stug111, with the RC movement packaage:
https://www.armortek.co.uk/product/stug-iii/


or,

You could treat yourself to a 55 min flight in a two-seat Spitfire, from the famed WW2 fighter station at Biggin Hill. The Pilot might even allow you to tinker with the joystick (not his), in many cases, apparently That's the 'White Cliffs of Dover' option.
https://flyaspitfire.com
https://flyaspitfire.com/book-a-spitfire-flight


I don't have a spare £5,000 grand; but I think- difficult choice though it would be- I'd go for the Spitfire session. It would be a 'to-die-for experience', although hopefully. not a 'die-during' experience
That bird is just so beautiful.

Either way, it's the best of British. Considering folk often spend that kind of cash on Summer holidays, I think it would be better spent on one of these two options, rather than acquiring sunburn and a series of severe hangovers..

[Kaczor]

Well, it's possible to make 1/6 model by yourself so I would choose flight

[jarndice]

If you were of Irish extraction with a penchant for flying you could have volunteered to train as a pilot in the Irish Army Air Corp and you would have been paid to fly the type,
Vickers thinking the Air Ministry would be interested in a two seater trainer built one early in the war (Without Dual Controls) only to discover that the AM were desperate for as many single seat fighters as Supermarine/Vickers could produce and said no thanks,
The Soviet Union had received a lot of Spitfires as part of the rearmament programme but unlike the British Air Ministry they did need trainers and converted an unknown number Perhaps 10 using a greenhouse canopy similar to the Fairy Battle unlike the "Malcolm Hood" of the British/Irish Air Corp Conversions
Nearly all of the two seat Spitfires were commissioned by the Irish Government as conversions of existing airframe's for that service,
I think there were 7 in total but I could be wrong,
At the end of their service they were sold for pennies because nobody realised that they were flying goldmines until they were rebuilt and their true value became apparent.

[EAO]

Arrgh!.

What a question to ask! This instantly gave me a headache! I really don't know, but I lean very slightly towards the Armortek. Wait though, the Armortek's come in a kit form I believe? That rules that out, I have no desire to build anything. I have no problem with tweaking a few things and upgrading electronics etc., and the general maintenance required, but no building for me. I know this makes me a real oddball compared to most of the guys on here, but I just want to play with these tanks and not put them together. Once again it goes back to my lack of free time and total lack of patience that all goes with it. The Spitfire it is!

That was like 10 minutes of pure anguish for me. Way too diabolical!

Cheers,
Eric.

[HERMAN BIX]

I’d go the Armourtek
Unless the alternative was an FW 190g !

[jarndice]

I don't know about the "Butcher Bird (FW 190) but the first Me 262 ab initio pilots were given their instructions by a qualified flying instructor (QFI) standing on the mainplane and shouting instructions into the cockpit before leaping clear prior to the jet taking off
The accident rate was truly horrifying which convinced the RLM to contract Messerschmitt to build the Me 262 B1a Dual control trainer but it was never as easy to convert to the type as the Luftwaffe thought.
I think the real heroes (Lunatics) were the pilots who flew the Me 162/163 Komet rocket interceptors,
No trainers were built of that airframe and they killed as many pilots due to accidents as to flying the type in combat.

[Marco Peter]

Spitfire flight for me.

But only beacuse I already own an Armortek Tiger and Panther haha!

[Afrikakorps]

Oh to hear that Rolls Royce Merlin engine
It would have to be the Spitfire for me.

[Jarlath]

I to have an Armortek… But I dunno. I wouldn't mind a second one.

5K for years of usage and fun, vs a bucket list item? Tough call...