PhantomBigStu

Spitfire, not unusual given the Biggen Hill Heritage two seaters are always about but looks like its my first sighting of the Kent Spitfire single seater given that one doesn't show on ADSB, surprised it's up given the weather has been pants this morning and hasn't yet cleared, a welcome sight anyway

Well its arrived, the aml it has the front part of the canopy framing moulded in with the bottom framing moulded to the fuselage so needed a bit cut off the frong kit and as I'm a wally I first cut the dashboard bit of so that's some extra work, and it will need a lot of clear glue but otherwise it fits

Can this not come, I can maintain the delusion that I’m going to convert a E/F back to an A that way

They generally have most of the sprues which generally have gazillion options, but particular variants might have a sprue not in others

Underside done

Not got round to the decals yet but heres what I hope to enter next, though I cannot tell you what scheme it will be just that it will be USAAF and in probably in NMF

Done a load of sanding and got some grey on, probably needs some further attention before the third grey leading edges can go on

Well I’m a twist of fate hannants were selling a canopy for the aml kit and had one it stock so i figured for a few quid it was worth a punt, of course I had to order a kit to get past the order limit but it was one I’ve being eyeing up from the special offers for a while so not a problem, let’s hope it can fit in the meantime I’ve cracked on with sanding my lightning and should have an update on that tomorrow

Not the river people but had a fun experience today, was waiting for a courier as it was 50/50 it was my dads birthday present or another parcel also coming from the same service, pulled up and spent the best part of 15 minutes rearranging his van then another 5 having a smoke before he finally delivered it to us. Got another knock at the door from our next door neighbour 10 minutes later as he had delivered the other parcel to them….oh dear

Disaster has stuck, the canopy has cracks in it so I think I’ll have to withdraw this one

An excellent point and indeed why I always go them first, and indeed it’s not backfired as it’s now for an upcoming GB. I’m very grateful to have a local shop on this day and age

Ended up with a Hasegawa kfir sort of by accident today, hopefully I can source some decals for one of the South American operators for this

Had expected to be building something else tonight, due to a mistake on my part the kit I left with wasn’t that and turned out to be what the mirage iii became so I decided to just start this instead, ran into a problem as it doesn’t have the right tanks based off the photo but had already the nose and tail fillet off by then so I guess I’ll have to go with the wrong ones or modify the kit ones edit: turns out the photo is a different aircraft from a different squadron so I’ll fit the smaller tanks

Indeed, anyway my decision to pick up the Italeri/revell proved foolish, was mistaken to think it was in stock at my local so I won’t be building one in the near future. They did have the Tamiya B version so maybe I’ll be getting that as well for this

Loyalty to my local has backfired, got my Tamiya f35a this morn and fancied getting myself the Revell/italeri a to build now, appeared in stock on my locals only to find it wasn’t and caused a fuss (which I hate to do) whilst they attempted to confirm it and offered me the (expensive) Tamiya f-35b which I refused and felt bad so left with a Hasegawa kfir as stash fodder. Could have had the Revell 35 delivered today from Amazon if just ordered this morning……

Two mustangs ready for decals

Got myself sorted for this recently with the new tamiya F-35A and a spare decal sheet from the academy A to give me lots of options. Took it out of the box to prime and potentially start it early this morning as I fancy doing an A now as a quick build, seeing all the differently coloured panels and ram decals gave me a panic attack.......might pick up the revetari kit later from my local and build that now even though the same caveats apply, as the subject I want to do isn't really appropriate for a GB on a neutral forum and save the tamiya for this as the tamiya has the full pylons and I ll do a usaf one with them in this

Not sure they are aside from the merest fraction on the leading edge fillets, I can't see any difference Anyway the RAF one will be decal ready in about 15 minutes or so from now, the RAAF one will have to wait till tommorow

I have a question that has always pondered me, is the canopy on the 2012 1/72 airfix kit wrong? It looks too shallow and narrow compared to my deicast one or have kits/diecast's in the past got it wrong? edit: got my tamiya out and it agrees with airfix so looks like my diecasts wrong

Still got to touch up the undersides but the tops are decal ready, can't see it in the pick but quite a difference in the canopy area, airfix is both narrower and shallower.

More progress on the raf one, went with dull red for the spinner though welcome to be corrected if it was bright red

A prop spare from another die cast that erroneously included the aeroproduct one was carefully repainted insignia red, and the sky band and blue rudder is done, interior on the airfix is under way and the resin aeroproducts prop for that is likewise

On, now for the blue rudder and sky fuselage band on the Aussie one

The new airfix starter p-51 is now available so only a matter of time before we see one in here

RAF Grey sorted, now for the dark green/olive drab