Severus
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Hi
Should this model have the red patches over the gun ports? They arent on the decal sheet or mentioned in the destructions and being blonde its a bit much for me to work out on my own
Ta
Dannielle
It's quite simple:
Scrap of decal paper cover with desired paint (Must be enamel!!!).
Then cover with two layers of varnish.
Cut into desired pieces.
Apply as usual decals.
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97 Eggshell is a close relative of Sky. See the thread at:
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.p...amp;hl=eggshell
for more information on that shade.
122 is FS35622, according to the Humbrol website. That is the underside colour for the Israeli 3 tone sand\brown\green shade used on the likes of the Phantom, Mirage, Skyhawk etc in the 1970s.
124 Petrol Blue equates to RAF PRU Blue. It was recently reintroduced as 230 PRU Blue.
173 Track Colour was from the old railway scenic colours and represented the colour of well used wooden railway sleepers. It was a very good general grime colour.
175 RLM76 is a late war Luftwaffe shade.
As for HB13 Azure Blue, you'll find a long discussion about that shade here:
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.p...81&hl=azure
HTH
John
Thanks all, chaps (Yep, that terrible thread on Azure I saw. Prefferebly I mix my paint for every single case, as, allways the Azure from tin looks too dark.)
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Greetings,
I found forgotten box of paints, and found some tins, I have no idea what they were used for:
Hu:97 (eggshell?) common to 90,
Hu:124 (some blue with hint of green)
Hu:122 (like Sky or duck egg blue, just very bright)
Hu:173 (dark brown)
Hu:175 (perhaps RLM76???)
I also found some HBxx - Azure Blue. Though very dark or rich shade, what a paint! With one brush dip I got almost half of the wing!!! What surpricing experience apart from todays (by brand only) Humbrols...
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What about holy water???
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I thought this website might prove usefull to some people:
Helpful, unfortunately, incomplete.
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I'd wait for the release of the airfix spitfire 1/2a kit and see what bits they're going to include with that, I get the impression it will be the new tool 1a with an add-on sprue with the props etc.
Also converting the fabic aileron airfix 1a to a metal aileron Va is surely just a case of sanding the fabric effect smooth and scribing on a panel line?
Fill in, then file/sand.
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I've built the Italeri 1:72 Spitfire V and I can't see much that's wrong with it. Their 1:72 Spitfire IX is a different matter, as it has a very inaccurate front-end. Are you thinking of this?
Regards
Stewart
I mean both. Mishappens:
- Canopies front pieces
- Propellers
- Scribbing - omission of significant lines on conection of wing to fusselage.
- Radiators
Misshaped cowl is just... The crown.
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I'm curious which Mustang I kit you mean as AML never did a Mustang?
Anyway, the AML P-40 kit is very diffucult to assemble, there are many serious fit issues. I built mine when it was first released, sometime in 2005 or so, and this experience is quite enough for me. The decals, etched and resin I save for the Airfix P-40's, unless these will be useable.
Speaking of Czech kits, in my opinion that gold standard do deserve the MPM kits from galvanized tools.
Well, if U mean their last release of P-40's, that in the amount of discrepancies surpassed their old release...
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Ventura also did the XI, I've picked up several in recent years for a relative pittance, probably less than a fiver.
As for chucking out the Academy Spit, I generally strip it for spares - the cockpit is very nice, one of the nicest in the scale (so nice I made some moulds from it) and the u/c and prop come in quite handy. Apart from the radiator cock up, is the wing salvageable?
It depends, what do you find under term "nicest", and "salvageable". Concerning cockpit - stretched sprue, clipped coke can and some wires in absent cockpit of old mold AFX Ia or Vb makes better cockpit, than what's in the box of Academy. And talking about the wing - Overly thick, terrible radiators... So, what remains? Perhaps legs, wheels, propeller (?), dashboard... Is it really this few pieces worth of the money for Aca's XIV?
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I'd say that if Sky Blue was not used, then some batches of Sky looked suspiciously like Sky Blue, as this well-known photo shows:
Do I see correctly the front spit and hurr in Temperate Land, while the far spit is Day Fighter scheme?
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It doesn't look too bad though seeing I built this in the early to mid 60's!! Goes to show that Airfix kits stand the tests of time!
Airfix did mostly good kits. I had had their FW-190A-8, that, considering it's age, still is good on the shape. And even D-9, that came with surprisingly good features, looks pretty good in line with hasegawa, if built with some work invested.
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Hi. in first I used vallejo air middle stone and drk earth. But they were not good. I respryed it with revell 17 and if I remember well revell 47, but I am not sure. Revell 17 is sure. And of course, the underside is Azul blue from agama.
Surprising - I tried repeatedly their LWF as well as RAF range. Never got two tinlets of the single shade not same, but not even common. Perhaps, revell learned to make paints, i should give it a try.
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Why does everyone see the need to be so defensive over this? Brett Green may have done a lot for the hobby but I'm sure he'd be the first to tell you he doesn't know everything about every subject ever produced as a kit!
Personally I'd reckon the poor fuselage cross-section is a pretty major issue no matter what scale you're talking about, it's no improvement at all on the Hasegawa kit which suffers from similar problems!
If you don't care to fix it thats fine. I feel differently and without slicing the thing lengthwise into half-inch strips I don't see as its very easily corrected. The only 'advantages' this kit has over the Hasegawa one is that all the surface detail is engraved and its stuffed full of interior bits, if they are accurate, all of which just smack of putting lipstick on a pig!
Buy the thing if you want, have fun gluing it together, its your model, do whatever you want, but please can we drop the sniping about having the styrene in our sweaty mitts before we make a comment on it, I know damned well the kit isn't up to the standard that'll make me spend money on it.
It could have been so much better and it isn't, so that amounts to a whole bunch of wasted time, if you really want a 1/32nd Spit Vb on the shelf track down a Hasegawa one, it'll be cheaper and the aftermarket industry is all over it like a rash.
Even usable as basis for really crazy conversions...
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I'm planning some Spitfire projects in 1/72 and want to double check if i have the right idea. I will be using the appropriate decal sets for the projects and the 3D kits conversion parts.
Project 1) Making the Airfix Spitfire Mk I (new tool) into a Mk Va. Requires Rotol Prop/Spinner and Coffman starter, Fishtail exhausts and round opening on oil cooler.
Project 2) Italeri Mk Vb into a Ib. Requires Normal Mk I prop/spinner, round exhausts and semi circle opening on oil cooler.
Project 3) Italeri Mk Vb into a IIb. Requires Rotol prop/spinner and coffman starter, round exhausts and semi circle opening on oil cooler.
Can anyone please correct me on the above if I'm wrong and if I'm right in the above to confirm it? Also if there's anything really obvious I've overlooked, please let me know. Please note that it is 1/72 so the models, as far as I'm concerned don't need to be overflowing with detail and that I'm sticking with the above mentioned kits even if they aren't the best in this scale.
thanks
Mike
You are definitly wrong, if you even consider using whatever from italeri's parody on spitfire. New tool Mk.Ia from Airfix is enough, what's needed for early spits, unless scribing tool, putty and sand paper are your enemies.
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To be totally honest, I believe that no XIV/XIX kit fuselage is totally accurate. As said before, the aeroclub vacform conversion is probably the only one.
If accuracy is not a big issue, I believe that the fujimi and AZ kits are still better than the airfix XIX kit. If money is an issue, the airfix kit does the job, but needs some work, as some features are really bad in 2010 (like the total lack of wheel wells detail).
Personally I've built or I'm building all, including correcting the bloated academy kit.
Bottom line is, there's still room for a good 1/72 Spitfire XIV kit
Putting in front of spitfire line Academy's parody, every spit must look just right. I also got that miracle from Korea. It could be improved just one way - by throwing into waste basket.
A jolly gent on here cast me up a couple of big chins for Merlin engined PR's with a mouldtaken from a 1/72nd PR.X/XI kit(just can't remember the name of the kit off hand)in resin,
they've done the trick easily,the rudder came from the spares boxes of some of the
superb bods on here when I made the call for spare parts.
I didn't go to town with the 'pit on the "PR" or the "XIV" but I did with the BBMF IXe that I've done.
Mark
It's simple - it's been MPM's shortrun. Have some three pcs. at home. Not bad, but nothing to write home about.
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Right it might look, but comparing it with measurements showed the kit to be quite short. It doesn't look bad on its own, but looking at it beside Airfix's own Mk.IX, it looks weird, as it's the same length of the merlin engined one.
A kitbash of a IX and a XIX is possible and I've contemplated this myself. But some of the parts are not great, to bring it to the same level of the AZ kit a detail set would be needed and this would lift the price to the same level of the AZ.
Spend extra on Fujimi, if you have the taste
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hello all.
please se my OOB Spitfire MK IXc from Airfix in 1/72 scale.
Thanks for watching
Jan
Excellent - just what a pity of that decals. What color range had been used?
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I can't remember if i have posted these in the past. All are 1/48, with several more in the works
Enjoy
Cheers Brian
F-104's forever !
Looks excellent! Just a one piece of hair on criticism - check your references, defelction angle of flaps seems too much.
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Hi all,
for my Spitfire collection I need some pics (photos would be the best) of the "late" version of the Mk.Vc (2x6 exhausts), the best would be to have also a pic from the LF Mk.Vc.
Can anybody help please?
Thank you in advice.
Try to look net for Spitfire V published by Zlinek. It's mostly related to 310/313/312 Czechoslovak squadrons, but there are some pics of six stybs exhausts spits.
It's long oop, scanned is downloadable if you look around. Sorry, no direct link, as I don't remember, where I got it.
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Using the Airfix Mk.XIX, you don't get an accurate wing, and there is a suspicion that the nose is too short. I don't have one for comparison, so am relying here on other peoples' comments.
Looking on the XIX, I get just the right feeling of spitfire. Never put it on drawing, as it is somehow uncomfortable to put on if it's assembled.
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Cousin Spadegrip did a Fujimi XIX a while ago and echoed your comments.
He also reckons the Airfix one to be a fair stab,but isn't happy with the prop and that the rads haven't quite "got it".
As I've mentioned before,an Airfix "XIV" and "PR.X/XI" is a fairly simple conversion,the main aftermarket
components required is a deeper chin cowling for the Merlin and the later broadchord rudder.
Mark
Deeper chin cowling isn't uncurable with some miliput (or even with some polyester automotive putty) in such scale. And, of course, there are shortcomings, as prop, no detail in cockpit, early rudder (BTW, there were even XI's with early rudder). I wrote my statements above from the point of someone, who has really limited cash. I think, too frequently I hear / read such cries "this kit is faulty" or "they didn't get it right", instead of "fill in", "move some mm's forward/backward/up/down" etc..
From other basket - I have handfull of cheaply bought old Vb/Ia from airfix, and, looking at price tag at Sword's Vc's, I decided to buy some cheaper Xtrakits XII to replace the nose for merlin's one from those old Airfix.
Even if I can afford relativly pricy kits as F-111's of hasegawa, if I want Spit IX in 1/32, and can get Vb/VI hasegawa for sixth or eigth part of shining Tamiya, I don't see the point to throw avay those old kits, if it takes just little toying with sheet styrene, some putty, some butchery (some surgery, when knife cuts skin instead of styrene
), and plenty of good modelling time.Aftermarket I use as the last choice. Imagine the feeling of making two stage merlin mosquito from Tamiya's IV with just sheet styrene and the cheapest nasty automotive putty! Or, making tempest VI from old heller with just sheet styrene and cyanoacrylate...
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What's the problem with the radiators, please - beyond a bit of heavy engraving?
The shape - apart from heavy lines - sides somehow too rounded. Nothing uncurable, but I would have hoped for more from fujimi.
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Hi,
how much did they differ from earlier marks, say Mk.V? Can Tamiya 1/32 kit decals/instructions be trusted?
Reason why I'm asking is that I was thinking about using Spitfire Hobbydecal dry transfers on Tamiya kit but this set is apparently for earlier versions.
TIA
Mario
in NYC
The keyword is "mostly".
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Hi All
I want to build a Spitfire Mk Xl , is there a kit out there in 1/48
Thanks for looking wellzy
I have some conversion vacu fusselage. So, there certainly IS option. Frankly said, even if you have no conversion, buy the cheapest IX (ICM, perhaps), some miliput, good drawing, and - U R almost there. With some wise aproach, if you would use old Occidental as base kit, the faulty feature of bad shape of lower cowling would became advantage. Compare with drawings.
or convert AZ.
Sword XII & a few of Airfix I's
in Spitfire Single Type Group Build
Posted · Edited by Jazzy Jase
Hi all!
Recently bought Sword's Spitfire V.c looked very familiar to me, and, as I checked the Xtrakit's box of XII, I found info of mould maker being the same.
As I bought some pair of XII's for half the price of recent V.c, in the intention to kitbash nose of old Airfix with XII's fusselage, I changed my mind, as I realised I have no any decent griffon spit in collection, and even no seafire.
Currently started XII (I had read the rules!) will be finished along with GB, let's say, I use it as testing platform...
I intend to build following birds:
- Spitfire Mk.XII (EN221, December 1942, trials against EN222) Point of interest - EN221 was probably only XII with eliptic wing!
- Seafire XV (PR362, 5H, 806th sq., HMS Glory, 1947)
- Seafire XVII (probably SX273, So5O, 709th sq. RNAS St. Merryn, 1945)
Just a pic of EN221 found on the net:
EDIT - Topic name changed as requested by Severus