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Hello All, My last completion of 2015 (unless I get very lucky indeed!), garnished with a figure from the Revell RAF aircrew set: It's a nice "not-quite-new-Airfix" kit, bought for pennies on Ebay and mostly finished in a weekend, with some final touches this morning. I closed up the undercarriage well, added some cameras (sprue), opened up exhausts and inlets, added wing tip lights, removed the fabric effect from the trim tabs, and made some new lower camera windows using a film of Clearfix. I also ran a wash of acrylic putty over all the panel lines except the engine covers just to tone them down a bit. Paint is brushed Humbrol 230 acrylic with some Hu64 to add some fading and patchiness. I wanted a wartime example with "B" type roundels and used generic Xtradecal roundels and a hand-painted serial number. The one I wanted to do originally didn't have a pressurised cabin, so I ended up doing a very late war Benson wing example from a photo in the Morgan and Shacklady tome. I used the smaller wheels from the kit (which are not mentioned in the instructions) too. I also ummed and ahhhed a lot over adding stencils, but decided in the end to keep it clean. Thanks for looking, Adrian
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Just finished another build, it was quite a quick one, only 10 days start to finish. Its the AIRFIX 1/48 PRXIX After just completeing the ACADEMY Spitfire XIV I thought I had better see what a Spitfire was supposed to look like. For being such a new kit I was a little bit disappointed with some of the fit. Interiour detail is first class but the wing root fitting was awful. Its brush painted with Humbrol acrylics and been given a light weathering and aftermarket decals. One of the photos shows it next to the Academy kit and the differences are glaringly obvious. All comments welcome. Mark.
