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  1. Very nice indeed. That really looks the part.
  2. A sneek peek at the Spit... And now..... Do I, don't I?? Let's see how I get on with these two for now... If all goes well and there's no mojo killer moment as there very nearly was early on I'll be in with it Be wrong not to really wouldn't it!
  3. Cheers fellas, just applying decals to the spit at the moment, and wow! I think they're the best I've ever used. Pictures ron.
  4. Excellent work, this is looking superb Marty. I have one of these and at the rate I'm building my spit and 109 I might just do the hurri too and have all three main players
  5. Looks fantastic, the cockpit is nothing short of a masterpiece!
  6. Klear - I spray it neat at around 20psi, just light coats one after the other building it up gradually. The paint is lightly sanded before application. I think that's the real trick to it. Thanks. On with the 109 and I've got it all together Other than having to clean up each and every part of a heavy mould line and flash it's gone together well. The cannon inserts were a little troublesome and needed some careful adjustments to get a decent fit, the leading edge slats too. Also the tail wheel had a flat spot and no second part for a wheels up option so I built it up with squadron putty and re-shaped the tyre. The canopy I masked myself with tamiya tape, couldn't really justify spending six pound odd on a mask set when the kit itself only cost that much and didn't fancy the wait either! Ready for primer now and looking forward to the challenge of painting
  7. Crisp paintwork Greg, you're onto another winner here
  8. Thank you both. Chuck, your big Mk.I is a real beauty! Looks real in some of those black and white shots. I keep telling myself I should try my hand at a biggie but always end up with your standard 48th or 72nd... One day... One day. No further progress to report on my spitfire. However I have made a little start on the 109. The cockpit and pilot are just about done and I've closed up the fuselage which is currently clamped and setting as I type this.
  9. Excellent Greg! Pilot and in-flight is the proper way to build a model aircraft
  10. Nicely done Sean. For removal of tiny parts on the sprue I use a scalpel, if the blade is new it's like a hot knife through butter and eliminates all risk of the cutters moving and damaging your part.
  11. Lovely work on the cockpit. I've just realised that I failed to add part #52 from sprue C! Maybe why I ran into problems with gaps at the wing / fuselage join on my build... Had to split the bottom and add a spacer from sprue! Regarding the cockpit cover part... I chopped off the tabs and dremelled it inside to thin it right down at the point it goes over the panel, went on ok'ish then.
  12. Cheers fellas. Today's efforts have seen the green go on and a gloss coat of klear. I also made a start on the 109 getting the cockpit together complete with Unteroffizier Ernst Poschenrieder of 7./JG53.
  13. Real nice work on the paint! The lightening of panels is something I've yet to try but seeing this tells me I need to have a go. Looks fantastic
  14. Looking good there. I like the idea of building multiple models of the same type at the same time.
  15. A fine result, I like the look of that. Must try my hand finishing a small scale model some day soon
  16. Thank you all Here's where I'm at. Green to go on now and I'll get started on the hun... Unteroffizier Ernst Poschenrieder, 7./JG53 On 30th September, 1940, as the Battle of Britain raged in the skies above Kent, a German plane (Messerschmitt ME109e) with unusual markings, crashed on Broomhill. Here is an eye witness account from Robin Downs: "During the Battle of Britain I was thirteen years old and living in Jersey Road, Strood. I remember on one occasion a German Messerschmidt plane flying low over the gardens and heading towards the church at Frindsbury. As it reached that point the anti-aircraft guns in Chatham Dockyard fired a burst near it and it turned, obviously disabled and losing height flew back in our direction. As it reached the end of Jersey Road only apparently a couple of hundred feet up the pilot opened up his machine guns. We naturally thought that he was firing at us and immediately flattened ourselves on the ground." (Research by Clint Mitchell, published on asisbiz.com) Another witness remembered as the plane flew low overhead, his father (Mr Mapley) fired three shots at it with his Lee Enfield from near his air raid shelter in Gordon Road. When the plane was inspected, after it crashed, it was noticed that there were three bullet holes in it. Mr Mapley certainly had no doubts who it was that shot the plane down! When the plane crashed on Broomhill it was immediately surrounded by angry locals and land Army girls who were working the fields. Their anger probably had much to do with their (mistaken) assumption that the German plane had been machine gunning them as it came down. In fact the pilot was Uffz. Ernst Poschenrieder, based at Le Touquet-Etaples airfield. On 30th September 1940 his unit was on bomber escort duty. After intercepting RAF Spitfires over North Kent, his aircraft was hit by pilot Sgt Parker (who was himself shot down and killed ten days later). During the forced landing Ernst sustained serious back injuries. By the time local PC Jack Matthews attended the scene one of the girls, a brave Scot called Sarah Kortwright, was standing guard on the german pilot, preventing the angry women from reaching him. The police officer then helped the injured pilot to the ground and escorted him to a waiting ambulance. Such was the strength of feeling on the ground that the mob refused to allow the ambulance to drive to the site of the crashed plane and Herr Poschenrieder had to walk to the road. However, another witness version said the angry women who had filled their aprons with plums to pelt the pilot changed their attitude when he emerged from the plane and was seen to be a tall, handsome and charming man. Herr Poschenrieder was treated at Medway Hospital for serious back injuries and spent the rest of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp in Canada. However, in 1955, by then a wealthy timber merchant, Ernst returned to Broom Hill to ask the whereabouts of his rescuers, saying he intended to give "the biggest bunch of flowers arms could hold" to the girl who had saved his life that day. He was told she had returned to Scotland and, after visiting the doctor to thank him for his excellent treatment, Ernst travelled north and tracked down Miss Kortwright, where he presented her with a large bouquet and took her to dinner.
  17. All right chaps, I decided to have another look at this model, it's amazing what a little chill and calm head can do! And 75 years ago we didn't just roll over and quit now did we! It wouldn't be in the spirit of this GB for me to give up either so I cracked on with it... It ain't pretty... There's quite a few areas that look a right mess but I'm pleased to say it's all together and I've thrown some paint at it today Hopefully I can disguise some of the worst bits with a bit of nifty weathering. Prop blurs are out of stock so it's now from the box entirely. Whether or not I should do up the German I can't decide... Airfix have annoyed me! Although I see other people are managing to get this model together nicely and that's making me wonder if it's just my cackhandedness that's messed it up... Probably a combination of the two!!
  18. AIRFIX!! I will never build another of their kits again! I fail to understand the praise AIRFIX gets! It's completely undeserved... This kit is an over engineered mess, every part has a weird lip and it just doesn't fit together right. The front cowl part is a bad joke, why the bloody hell did they make it like that? The fuselage to wing... A good 3mm gap... The tailplanes... Two pieces, why? Put them together perfectly and slide in and another bloody big gap! Trailing edge of the wings too is extremely thick! Why? It's the underside where the centre air scoop goes that's the biggest problem though, good god! Terrible! Actually no, it's the very plastic it's made of! Soft, easily bendable, turns to gloop when you add glue... HORRIBLE! I'm done with it! Full respect to anyone who can get this thing together and looking good and sorry for my rant but that is that. I haven't the time for dealing with these kind of problems on a modern kit.... You know, the actual building of a kit I really don't like, it's a chore at the best of times, it's only the painting I really enjoy in truth. It's in the bin where it belongs! Good riddance!!!! AIRFIX!
  19. Nicely done! And quick! Looks factory fresh and ready for a first sortie
  20. Thanks Paul, patience and washes are the trick, roughly block in all your basic colours and allow them to dry properly, then a heavy dark brown wash over everything, again let it dry then use a dark brown paint and fine line round any major shadows, then just repaint your colours leaving the shadowed bits alone, build it up with highlights. When you're done give it all a light wash again to blend it all together. Simple and quick to do, the washes do the work. Citadel paints are my weapon of choice. And instead of white use grey or beige to brighten colours, more natural. Dan
  21. Thanks Ozzy. I'll be ordering some prop blurs shortly, they look great. Pedro is finished. I chose not to sculpt the oxygen mask fitted and instead attempt to paint his trademark tache! I made some straps from masking tape, a small triangle of plasticard and a bit of fuse wire. Test fitted and all is well. I think I'll get the build finished and ready for paint before cracking open the other box and naming the dastardly hun!!
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