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1/72 Airfix MkIa Spitfire (new tool) - photo heavy


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This is my finished Airfix 1/72 MkIa Spitfire - the new tool version. I really enjoyed building it. It's the first plane I've built in many, many years so it was a bit of a learning experience. It's all brush painted apart from the final application of matt varnish which was from a rattle can. I tried some pre-shading, which I think worked, and this is my first attempt at weathering.

The build can be found here.

The first photos are ones I took after deciding it was finished and in proper daylight rather than electric light:
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Next I decided to make a little display base for it on some scrap MDF I had:
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Which I then tried some close-ups of with the sun at quite a low angle:
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.....and a couple without the sun:
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Well that's it for this one. Comments and suggestions welcome.

Next off I'm going to do another Spitfire for the 'Less than a tenner' group build. In fact I may even be making two.

Kind regards,

Stix

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Stix, great job there! The build log was inspirational too. I always brush paint my kits and had often wondered whether pre-shading was possible that way or not, and it looks as though it is! I will try that on my next aircraft attempt.

You have ended up with a cracking model there, and the base and low sun set it off wonderfully.

All the best, Ray

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Hi theanorak, Stew, batcode, James, Dave, Wolwe, MPaul, Ray, Steve, Airledge, blueliner and Iain,

Thank you all for your kind comments. I have to say when I decided to do a WiP with the Airfix Mk1a Spitfire I really thought I might be on my own as it had been made so many times before but, I guess, everyone does it in their own way which makes all the threads so interesting.

Thank you all again,

Kind regards,

Stix

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Thats lovely, whats the product code for this new tool Spit?

Hi MPaul,

Sorry - meant to say before - the product code for this MkIa kit is A01071A. You can also get a kit from which you can build either a MkI or MkIIa version, the product code of which is A02010 - it's basically the same kit with extra optional parts.

Kind regards,

Stix

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I had missed your WIP, so checked it out via your 'link' at the top. Thanks for that, as it was an interesting build. Nice work in the cockpit, I particularly liked your homemade seat belts, with the pin holes. I shall have to try that. And I think you just used a 'square' of tape for the buckles? very effective.

Nice Build.

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I had missed your WIP, so checked it out via your 'link' at the top. Thanks for that, as it was an interesting build. Nice work in the cockpit, I particularly liked your homemade seat belts, with the pin holes. I shall have to try that. And I think you just used a 'square' of tape for the buckles? very effective.

Nice Build.

Hi chockhead,

Thank you for you comments. Yeah the seat belts looked better than I expected - the dark wash afterwards helped as well - and yes just tape for the buckle, pushed into in the middle to give it a rough shape.

Kind regards,

Stix

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Just realised I didn't include a photo of the completed underside:
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Also a few of the photos I took at the same time turned out a little grainy so I thought I would play around and make them black and white:
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Thank you for looking.

Kind regards,

Stix

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