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British Super Marine Spitfire - Single-seat Fighter Aircraft

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"The Supermarine Spitfire is a British Single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II. Many variants of the Spitfire were built, using several wing configurations, and it was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft. The Spitfire was designed as a short-range, high-performance interceptor aircraft by R. J. Mitchell, chief designer at Supermarine Aviation Works, which operated as a subsidiary of Vickers-Armstrong from 1928. Mitchell pushed the Spitfire's distinctive elliptical wing with cutting-edge sunken rivets (designed by Beverley Shenstone)[​4] to have the thinnest possible cross-section, helping give the aircraft a higher top speed than several contemporary fighters, including the Hawker Hurricane. Mitchell continued to refine the design until his death in 1937, whereupon his colleague Joseph Smith took over as chief designer, overseeing the Spitfire's development throughout its multitude of variants." -Wikipedia

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Hello there!
My name is Stubbs, and I built this replica of a 1938 British Super Marine Spitfire, as a gift for my father. He has always been a huge fan of planes, and model planes, and I thought, that for this Christmas, I'd like to give him something a little more unique than merely just the classic "here's a photo of a cool plane!"

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Short background for this build

Almost a year ago, I stumbled over the works of Omega58 and their recreations of military aircraft.
Omega inspired me to try my hand at recreating iconic military aircraft, however I am horrible at making the small recreations, so instead I opted for a large scale recreation, as that makes it easier for me to work with the shapes.

As mentioned beforehand, this plane was a Christmas gift for my father. Since I'm rewriting this after having already delivered this gift to him, I can say that he was impressed and flew around looking for every small detail in it. Even though it took him around 30-40 minutes to get used to the controls of Minecraft, he ended up finding it fun to have an interactive way of looking at a 3D model.

We later exported the .schem file and converted it into a .obj file, after we found out that the local library has 3D printers that can print .obj files. So nearly a year after he was flying around it in-game, he now also has it hanging from the ceiling in his hobby room :D

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Credits:
Renders made by: I Place Blocks