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Hi, I post some pictures of one of my builds from this year. I wanted to depict a Spitfire IX in french service in Indochina. I used a Berna decal sheet, one of the profiles is an interesting plane with a sharkmouth, from GC2/4 Lafayette squadron in 1947. On the sheet it is depicted with a C wing, but some pics of Lafayette spits I found on the web show a E wing, so I used an Eduard weekend edition of the Spitfire IX E. I started with a preshading in black highlighting some panels with white. All the markings except the squadron emblem where done with a Silhouette cutter. I used Tamiya paints, the weathering is done with oil paints and pigments. I also did a diorama base, supposed to be from India or Burma, but looking acceptable for Indochina also. The ground is covered with Marston matting, a kind of wire mesh set on tarred felt sheets. The sheets are done with Canson paper, the wire mesh with tulle. The elephant and his mahout come from a CMK resin kit. The harness is done with Tamiya epoxy putty, with a little chain from some cheap necklace. The pilot comes also from the CMK kit, I just changed the head which was full of bubbles for a head from a ICM kit. The accumulator trolley is scratchbuilt, the weels come from a Tamiya mototug which I thinned as much as possible to replicate some reference pictures. Here are some pics of the completed dio: have a nice weekend, Christian.