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Tamiya Spitfire Mk.I 1:48 (Newbie Alert)


Dema

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Hi All,

Here is my 2nd model on this forum and my first ever 1:48 aircraft. So i went with Tamiya inspired by many builds of this kit here on BM.

From a newbie perspective I made every single mistake that was possible during the building. From wrong colors and respraying it to destroying extradecal roundels, not having a very good looking canopy in the end and so on and so on :shutup:

Colours are Vallejo Air.

I still like the result all things considered.

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a few from during the build:

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Thanks for looking.

Dema

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Very smooth finish. Not sure about the blue underside being accurate though. The next time you do some chipping have a go with some Prismacolour silver pencils.

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Very smooth finish. Not sure about the blue underside being accurate though. The next time you do some chipping have a go with some Prismacolour silver pencils.

Thanks Andy for the tips. I was mainly disappointed with 2 things, the underside colour as I checked some information on Sky and ended up using Vallejo reference for it to then realize it wasnt right. Second the overall weathering wasnt great... i even had a go with a chep kit as test subject and both paint job and weathering looks better there :) go figure

I will have a look at Prismacolour. I probably should have at least used sponge technique on this one... well well, next one :)

Thanks for looking.

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It looks pretty good. I also am inexperienced and I know that I keep on learning on every build. Someday I hope to be able to use an airbrush effectively. Thanks for posting. Bob H.

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Well for only your second model and first 1/48 I think you have done a fantastic job. I wish my second ever model had looked as good as that! Well done. :thumbsup:

Thanks PlatStix. You very kind. Being a newbie in the modelling world is tough! :) so many chances to mess with a model... I hope my next ones take some lessons from this one.

Cheers

Very nice... Great looking Spity

Thanks Leonl. Cheers mate.

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An outstanding effort,bides well for your next venture,don,t worry about the under surface I'm old enough and wise enough to get thing's right

but know my current Spitfire has a very "iffy" shade of earth on it but that,s modelling we live and learn!

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