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Hi All May I present my 1/48 scale Westland Whirlwind fighter. I bought this as a part started kit for a reasonable price from a vendor on here. The fuselage, tailplane and wings had been assembled. This one ha taken a while as sat on the shelf of doom for a while twice and has occasionally sapped my Mojo however I have finally finished it. I am pleased with the result. The kit supplied cockpit is absolutely cracking and fits in very well. I added seat armour and the brace bar for the seat roll over bar and scratch built the seat mounts from photos with measurements from a fellow BM'er, thanks Scott A.K.A @Jinxman for your assistance. The other additions in this area are Scratch built rear view mirror, and some additional internal frames bits to the sliding portion of the canopy. I also added shrouds to the lower canons from hollowed out sprue as taught by Moa who's a modelling master, thank you The undercarriage is white metal and I cut off the rear parts of the jacks and scratch built these to represent more true to the original. The model is brush painted in Humbrol enamels with oil paint wash and chipping using various coloured pencils. The machine modelled is P6974 of 263 squadron in August 1942 in the Dieppe raid markings. The decals for this came from another BM'er however I have checked my messages and it is no longer there so sorry but, who'm ever supplied the decals a big thank you goes to you too. I have been inspired by the people building shelf of doom models whilst in isolation and so thought I would finish this off. I may have to pick up the 32nd Tiggie I still have to finish or the 32nd spitfire again to finish before I start a fresh kit, I am also doing another shelf of doom build a Trumpeter 48th Sea Hawk too. The cockpit details can be seen in the WIP which is linked here. Anyway enough of the chit chat here's some pics Hope you enjoy, thanks for looking All the best Chris