dylan the rabbit Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 (edited) As part of my plans to save money and keep myself out of the pub for the foreseeable future, I've cracked out a couple of kits to blow away the modelling doldrums. Both are WW2 RAF fighters in desert camo. The first is an ancient Airfix Spitfire Vb, and the second an Eduard P40M Kittyhawk. The Spitfire was slapped together pretty quickly, and is now at the sanding seam stage. The Kittyhawk has taken a little longer to get to this stage. Lots of dry fitting and figuring out how to fit the resin cockpit and radiator in before I'll zip it up. I just spent the evening spraying that and then assembled the wings for the next round of dry fitting. Nice kit this Eduard. Always fancied making a sharkmouth P-40. Just never got round to doing it. I had to nip out today to get some basic paints. It's been so long since I've built anything. Even my glue was rubbish and I had to dig out a new bottle and redo the port wing of the P-40. More to follow. Cheers, Nick Edited January 16, 2017 by dylan the rabbit 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob85 Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Nice start, looking forward to how these progress! Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Sharkmouths Kittyhawks are the best kind! Good luck with both builds, they're looking fine from over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylan the rabbit Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 A bit more done last night.. Resin wheel wells painted and in. Wings glued up. Resin radiator glued in (not the best sadly), spacer bars in the fuselage inserted and glued (terrible fit between the fuselage and wing root without them).. Work started on the cockpit floor and sidewalls. Lots of fiddly photo etch to paint and glue onto the cockpit sides, seat and IP now. Hope to have it ready for priming in a day or so. Spitfire all sanded down and ready for priming. Cheers, Nick 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylan the rabbit Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 (edited) Well that was a pain.. In the two years I've taken off modelling, my eyesight has got progressively more long sighted, and even with my new specs, I can't see what I'm doing close up. If I start to take this up again regularly, I'm going to need to get some magnifiers. This Eduard kit has got so much photo etch, but I just couldn't use half of it. I can't ruddy see it. Same for superpainting resin cockpit sidewalls. So.. They got a basic paint up. I used the photo etch belts, and put the IP in. All done with slow setting epoxy, as I hate superglue. I think the bottoms of the sidewalls may need shaving off, and the bottom of the cockpit floor sanded down too. Nice kit, but a real ballache to use the ProfiPack parts.. Will get the wings on tomorrow night.. Dihedral fix and wing root filler struggle on the horizon. Cheers, Nick Edited January 18, 2017 by dylan the rabbit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylan the rabbit Posted January 19, 2017 Author Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) Pig of a kit to put together this Eduard... now I can't fit the floor in.. gah! will need a ridiculous amount of sanding to get it in.. my next build will will be a nice new tool Airfix I can tell you. Edited January 19, 2017 by dylan the rabbit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I believe the kit is not of Eduard origine, but the old Muave one. That might explain the fit problems together with the extra amounts of resin and so on. The spreader bar is probably a good idea. Good luck with the floor and fitting of the wing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylan the rabbit Posted January 19, 2017 Author Share Posted January 19, 2017 Thankyou. Yes, it's the original Mauve kit with added bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylan the rabbit Posted January 20, 2017 Author Share Posted January 20, 2017 Wings on... Gaps between the wing root and fuselage still need a lot of filling... Have dumped a whole load of sprue/glue filler in there to sort this out. Cheers, Nick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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