Brad Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 (edited) Turkey flew quite a few Spitfires, during and post WW2. When their MK V's were withdrawn from front line duties and replaced with Thunderbolts and later model Spitfires, some Mk V's found their way to the Turkish Central Flying School, or Hava Okulu from about 1948 onwards. I'll be using the Tamiya kit with decals from Blackbird Models. Edited March 3, 2019 by Brad 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob G Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 We need a 'wow' emote. Good to see something familiar yet different in the GB. If you get time, a T.9 might make an interesting companion (hint hint ) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Interesting and unusual take on a familiar subject Brad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 A small start over the weekend that was filled with much cricket and drinking. The interior will look fine under the closed canopy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 So far so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 The wings are a nice tight fit. ....and here's where I screw up a Tamiya kit. The peg holding the wing level to the fuselage slipped during the night and pushed the wing inset into the fuselage. You can see here I have had to run a knife along the edge and pop it out, otherwise I'd have been left with a huge step. Fortunately my ineptitude in clamping was only out done by my ineptitude in gluing it together as it popped out pretty easy. A little super glue and rescribing should fix this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Oops. Looks to be going well for you otherwise though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 Still building. Fit is pretty good as you would expect. Checking for faults with some silver paint. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 Canopy masking and gluing is a little fiddly, but I think I got it all lined up. Green has also been painted first over it. Prop and spinner finished and some Azure blue applied to the bottom. Instructions say "sky" but the profile is clearly blue, so I went with the blue I had. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 1, 2019 Author Share Posted March 1, 2019 More paint. Masked up and sprayed the middle stone this morning. With the weather hitting 38C today, the paint was rock hard by this evening, so I masked up and sprayed the dark earth. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisk Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Your build comes along nicely with some great paint work Cheers, Peter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Swift and tidy progress Brad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 Nearly there. Gloss and decals are on. The BlackBird decals go down nicely. Just working on the wash today, which is drying nice and quickly in the heat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 Doneski. It's a nice little kit and the decals worked well. I grubbied it up nicely as I like a nice dirty bird. Thanks for looking. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Congratulations on your colourful and unusual model Brad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockeyboy76 Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Great build of a great aircraft. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Very nice Brad, you knocked it up pretty quickly with a great finish! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandboof Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Looks great Like the Turkish Markings Martin H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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