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  1. I have just completed my Christmas present from Mrs-G, the amazing beautifully engineered Airfix 1/24 Supermarine Spitfire Mk IXc kit. It was a joy to build. Disappointed with the small images generated by Flickr, any way of getting them to display full size?
  2. Built from the 1/48 Eduard "Spitfire Story: Southern Star" Dual Combo boxing. Spitfire Mk.Vb trop ER821 of 92 San in Tunisia 1943. This kit was superb and was just what I needed - something easy to build after many a struggle recently. Built pretty much as per the instructions, I cannot remember any articular problems, apart from maybe a slightly dodgy fit of the huge tropical filter - but nothing too serious. I chose this set of markings from the box since I have a background Neville Duke and/or 92 San theme going. Colours started out as Mr Hobby H71/72 for the Dark Earth/Mid stone but they have been modified a fair bit by oil washes and filters. The underside was Humbrol 157 based on research found on this very site. This was the first time I have tried the "new" Eduard decals with the removable film. I have to say I loved them as it enabled the markings to be chipped and weathered a little. I found them fairly easy to work with but did have to mask and spray a few repairs here and there. As to the colours for the squadron codes - well there are a few reasons to doubt the blue colour but there are also reasons to believe it could be right too so I just went with it. All in all I am pleased with the outcome and recommend this excellent kit! Cheers Malcolm
  3. Hello Everyone, Hope all are having a great time with family and friends during the holiday season.... I would like to share few pictures of my recently completed Spitfire. This one was Tamiya's very old 1/72 Spitfire Mk1 kit. Very nice kit and cheap. Great for a relaxed week end build... Enjoyed this build.... Still some work to be completed, Lights were not painted when I took these pics. fixed now. OOB build. Marking as per instructions not sure if it is real… Actual restorations look different… Thanks for watching Mukund
  4. Spitfire HF Mk.VIII - 1/48 Eduard Profipack. 32 Sqn, Foggia, Italy 1944. A bit of a diversion from my usual area of biplanes and airliners, but I can't resist a Spitfire and have become addicted to Eduard's 1/48 kits since building my first one last year. I've got a general theme of trying to build a range of Spitfires to show the differences between various marks, and an HF High Altitude fighter was high on my list, despite the wing extensions spoiling the look! However, I think the Azure blue & Medium Sea Grey livery make up for it, as helps to show the pure shape of the rest of the aircraft, and I kept the weathering very light. I bought this at the Telford show last month and it went straight onto my workbench. An absolute pleasure to build, and my last completion of 2022, It is a bit difficult to photograph the interior after completion, so I took a few shots of the cockpit module before inserting into the fuselage. Next up I'll probably do a clipped wing LF Mk,Vb, to park alongside it. Thanks for looking, and Happy New Year! John
  5. Hello all, This is my latest build, Tamiya's 72nd spitfire built in USAAF markings, it's an aircraft from the 52nd FG. The model was painted with AK real colors acrylics. Tamiya enamel washes, tamiya weathering powders and a silver pencil were used for weathering. Eduard PE was used for the interior and landing gear doors. Kits world decals ref KW172244 were used. PS: sorry for the pictures, my camera's flash burnt so I am using my phone.
  6. My first Spitfire in 1:32. The kit was nicely detailed, but suffered from fit issues mainly on the wingroots. I first attempted to place a spreader, but after adding the cockpit I noticed it widened the fuselage enough to make the roots meet the wings. Decals were the best part of the kit, they conformed to the panel lines without the need for Micro Sol. I did use it to make the lower roundels conform to the many bumps of the lower wing. Here are the photos. Hope you guys had a nice Christmas!
  7. Just got these tiny wee things from Messrs. Kingkit for a bit of Christmas fun.
  8. Hot off the bench, this one was finished yesterday and the glamour shots taken today. I built it as part of a small [unofficial] PR Spitfire group build in the WIP section. I also built it as this aircraft was flown by F/L R. Garvey when he outmanoeuvred a pursuing Fw190 such that it crashed into some trees. Garvey was credited with the kill and received a Bar to his DFC for the action. Here's the WIP. TL;DR The Airfix kit builds without too much trouble. As I was building an early PR.XIX I needed to build it as unpressurised which required some adjustment to the rear canopy and windscreen. There were also other airframe adjustments required, but none too onerous. The markings were painted but I used decals for the stencils; the overall approach was based on representing the aircraft was it would have looked on 6th October when Garvey returned from that sortie. The pics... Garvey survived the war and remained in the RAF. Sadly, he was killed at Shawbury, England in January 1948 when his Mosquito crashed during landing. Cheers.
  9. After building (but not getting bored of) lots of Bf 109s and Fw 190s, I decided to pick this 1:32 Spitfire Mk.IIa from Revell. I read about its inaccuracies, but they don't detract the fact that the aircraft will, most likely, look like a Spitfire. I'm aiming for a start past December 6 of this year.
  10. As my early Mk I is nearing completion my thoughts are turning towards my next Spitfire build. I had thought to do a very late marque variant, probably the F Mk 22 or 24, but have decided instead that any self-respecting Spitfire collection needs a classic day fighter scheme, sky-spinner-and-band Mk V in its line-up. The airframe I have chosen is a fairly well known one – for 20 years or so it was the box star of Airfix’s 1/72 Vb, first tooled in the 1970s: Spitfire Mk Vb EN951/RF*D, flown by Squadron Leader Jan Zumbach during 1943. EN951 was originally issued to No. 133 “Eagle” Squadron in June 1942 and flown by Lt. Don Blakeslee, an American, before being transferred to No. 303 “Kosciuszko” Squadron in April 1943 to be flown by Zumbach, a Pole. This airframe was in fact the third Mk V to be flown by Zumbach, coded RF*D and painted with his personal “Donald Duck” emblem. It is a well photographed subject. Zumbach on the left: At one time the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight had their Mk Vb painted to represent this airframe, in fact I have a little bit of history with it, Ten or so years ago I went to a Spitfire “technical day” at RAF Coningsby. This was outside the flying season, so the BBMF planes were in various states of stripped-downness for winter maintenance, and I was able to get up close to them in the course of a very interesting day. Here’s me with said Spit on the day: And a shot of the same aircraft during a different visit to Conigsby: Zumbach himself was a colourful character. He began his military career as an infantryman, but qualified as a pilot in 1938; unfortunately he was unable to take part in the defence of Poland against German invasion due to a broken leg sustained in a flying accident, but his unit evacuated to France where he flew the Morane 406 and the Curtis Hawk. He was shot down in June 1940 but escaped unscathed. The following week he travelled to England by boat, and was one of the founding members of No. 303 Squadron in September of the same year. Flying Hurricanes during the Battle of Britain he chalked up eight kills and one probable. He was shot down again in May 1941, but again was unharmed. By May 1942 he was Squadron Leader of his unit, and was the first allied pilot to come up against the Fw 190. His war ended rather ignominiously when he spent a month as a prisoner of war, having accidentally landed the Auster he was piloting behind enemy lines due to a navigational error. After the war, under a Swiss passport (his Germanic surname comes from his Swiss grandfather) he made a living around Africa and the Middle East as a second-hand aircraft dealer, smuggler and mercenary. Zumbach died in slightly shady circumstances in France in 1986; an investigation into his death was closed by order of the French authorities without public explanation. No. 303 Squadron was one of the most storied units of the wartime RAF. Unlike squadrons made up of young, inexperienced, newly-trained British and Commonwealth pilots, 303’s Polish pilots with their combat experience and aggressiveness (it’s fair to say they had an axe to grind with the Germans over the invasion of their homeland) made them a formidable fighting group, and they scored the highest number of kills of any squadron during the Battle of Britain in their Hurricanes (despite joining the battle two months in), before converting to Spitfires in January 1941. Here they are with EN951: Anyway, that’s the background. The kit I’ll be using for this is the new-tool Airfix Mk Vb, which apart from the decals I’ll be building OOB. @stevej60 is very kindly sorting me out with decals, as the Techmod sheet I had in mind now seems to be discontinued. I'm going to have a look at the kit during the weekend. Thanks for looking in.
  11. I've finished - at last ! - two more kits, the Airfix F. Mk. 22 and the SMER Dewoitine D.520, which had been nestling quite comfortably in one of the stash boxes for some time. And they weren't in any hurry on the bench, either. The Smer kit proved to be a bit of a struggle to get it out of the box and into shape - and it shows. The Airfix spit? Well, given the paint job makes it look like it was left outside one bitterly cold morning in January 1947 and the frost on it sparkles in the bright morning sunlight, instead of a nice smooth all over hi speed silver, it hasn't ended up too badly. (I did lose the will to live with the stencils and didn't put them all on) I must have made enough spits, hurricanes, me 109s, Focke Wolfe 190's, mustangs and zeros as a child to not be the slightest bit bothered about making another, but a chance visit to Aldi and some of their £2.99 kits several years ago meant I have a spit to build. It's the Airfix spitfire Mk 22 out of the box, in the box scheme for 603 (City of Edinburgh) squadron spray painted in Hycote BMW titanium silver. Which gave the sparkly bits. I think I should have used Halfords nissan silver, which I did on a previous build and looks a lot more like the finish on the box art for the kit. Oh well, you live and learn. Tamiya X7 red was used for the spinner, oh I do like Tamiya paints, it went on in one coat, fully covered the primer, didn't need a second coat. It was OOB, well except for the seatbelts I hadleft over from something else, and a pair of very lovely quickboost resin exhausts. I finished it in a coat of Xtracrylic gloss varnish for the decals, and then another glossy coat of Xtracrylic varnish. The decals went on like a dream, incidentally. There was also an attempt topaing some panels in varying finishes, but I didn't want to overdo it. Now the Dewoitine D. 520. It's a Smer kit. If that means anything to others, it'll probably mean what I found, so so fit, poor detail, absolute basic cockpit, and a canopy that not even canopy masks could prevent looking like I'd painted it free hand after a lot of Scotland's finest falling down water. The raison d'etre for the build was a magazine article. Which described a build of a Hasegawa D.520 re issued by Hobby 2000, in Free French colours, based in Lebanon in 1942. (Model Airplane International, July 2022 and August 2022) I thought I like this, I wonder if I can do the D.520 I've got like it? You'll see I didn't. Essentially, as far as I can make out, the real aircraft were captured by the Free French when they and other allies re took Lebanon and Syria in 1942. Which may explain why the Cross of Lorraine roundels are added to rather than replace the French roundels. The real plane was painted in a champagne colour, but the nearest I could find to that was a hycote Ford Ivory white colour, which actually doesn't look too different to the paint used in the magazine build. The spinner - described by Smer as off white - was indeed painted off white using the off white paint from the ghost of Kyiv kit. The propellor is interesting. I took the kit propellor off the sprue to paint black, but haven't seen it since I did that. Wherever I put it, I can't find it. Was I going to give up without a propellor? Nope, I did what real modellers did and raided the spares box, and found a propellor that kind of looks like it might be the kit one, but I think it might have come from an airfix spitfire. It looks alright to me, but to others probably stands out like a sore thumb. The attempt at weathering was done using humbrol enamel tan washed over the kit using a brush dipped in turps, I'm not satisfied really but it's a brave attempt, I think. I used a set of Berna decals which contained Cross of Lorraine roundels, and I have to say Berna decals' decals go on like a dream. I didn't need a gloss varnish to put the decals on, the Hycote rattle can paint was very glossy, but I have painted it with a coat of eztracrylic matt varnish. On the bench now is a Yak 11 "Moose" in Austrian Air force livery from RS models.
  12. Hello folks. I am modelling the Tamiya Spitfire Vb in 1/48 with an Aboukir filter and am likely to produce it as EP689, mount of Sqn Ldr Stanislaw Skalski. This is clearly a popular subject with many models on show from a Google search. However, I have a question. Take a look at this image: And also this: I'm heading into dangerous territory here, trying to draw inferences about colour on an 80-year-old black and white image but if you look at the tone of the spinner in comparison to the tine of the colours in the roundel and fin flash, is the spinner really red as one tends to believe? I wonder if it is possibly roundel blue? Am I certifiable? Thanks, Neil
  13. Another lock-down blow-in with another 'Aldi Special' Airfix Mk1 in 1/72nd 😀 Like half the country (it seems) I rediscovered model making during lockdown after something like a 20 year break. After following many threads on here and a few attempts all with these 4.99 kits this is the first that feels like some progress is happening. Still lots to improve though but all good learning. Some obvious innacuracies - the Print Scale decals were pretty bad and I had to make a last-minute change due to half the decals being out of register. I realised too late that the K should be either sky or white (probably the latter) but I didn't have the heart to mask that off and re-paint. This was my first attempt at freehand camo and it's really not tight enough in this scale. I'll mask next time. I totally mis-read how the harness terminates from reference so will do that properly next time. Some things worked though especailly using different varnishes on various panels - some are satin and others matt which makes it look more interesting in-hand.
  14. Just your basic Eduard kit, not much drama. Painted with Tamiya, a 3:2 mix of XF-18 Medium Blue/XF-2 Flat White for the PRU Blue undersides
  15. Hello everyone! Here's my rendition of the much-maligned Academy 1/72 Spitfire Mk. XIV kit. Dare I say it on Britmodeller of all places, but I admit that I'm not that knowledgeable about the Spitfire, particularly the Griffin-engined marks. The kit was a gift from my now ex-girlfriend back in 2018, when she kindly tried nudge me back into the hobby as a respite from a severe work burnout. It sat in the stash for a while but over the past couple of years I found myself quite in debt (a mortgage and family health issues, not the criminal sort), so having a lot of free time at home, I started building through the kits stash, a dozen kits that were sitting idle for well over fifteen years, when I bought them back in high school. In fact, I completed this kit back in May of this year, but I've been a bit lax about taking photos and sharing the build - because if there's anything worse than my modelling skills, it's my skill as a photographer! I believe much has been written about the Academy kit. It's a strangely mixed bag of very fine engraved panel lines, excellent cockpit detail, incorrect overall shape, very incorrectly shaped radiators, thick and incorrect decals. Given my lack of in-depth knowledge on the subject, I decided to go easy on this one and not try to correct the geometry errors but build it mostly out of the box with minor improvements - I added a glass reflector gunsight, and "padded" the seatbelt decals with masking tape. This didn't turn out as good as I hoped but it's still better than flat decals on the seat. The tires are finely detailed and wight-flattened out of the sprue but there are alignment pins that causes the flat area to sit at an angle against the ground, so I had to reshape them using several layers of CA glue and a lot of sanding to get them aligned. Paints are entirely my own mix of Mr. Color acrylics, top coated with a 1-to-3 mix of Mr. Color acrylic gloss and matt varnish. Initially I used the decals for the DW-D service tag but as the Academy decals were way too dark for RAF Sky, and somewhat transparent, I had to mix a new batch of Sky and paint over them with a brush, then coat with varnish again. Definitely was a nerve shattering experience as I repainted it on the evening before taking the model to an expo last week. It seems that the yellow bands on the wingtips should be smaller but I'm going to overlook that one. Spitfire Mk. XIV RB159, DW-D, No. 610 Squadron "County of Chester, Summer 1944, flown by CO Richard Newbury who shot down 9 V-1 flying bombs. Wikimedia commons photo of the real plane. Anyway, enough blabbering, here's the end result!
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