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According to my battle of Britain the movie book MH434  12 different spitfires with 9 different serials.

                         Codes:

AI-A, AI-D, AI-E, AI-G, AI-H, AI-K, BO-G, 

CD-F, CD-H, CD-M, DO-N, EI-H

                         Serials:

N3310, N3312, N3313, N3314, N3315,

N3316, N3317, N3319, N3321 

the problem also is that some of the other spitfires used some of the the same codes and serials. The only way to recognise MH434 is the 4 blade prop, 6 tubular exhaust stubs, 4 aperture wheels and a small dipole aerial under the rear fuselage, hope this helps. Mark

 

 

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9 hours ago, Ruskin Air Services said:

According to my battle of Britain the movie book MH434  12 different spitfires with 9 different serials.

                         Codes:

AI-A, AI-D, AI-E, AI-G, AI-H, AI-K, BO-G, 

CD-F, CD-H, CD-M, DO-N, EI-H

                         Serials:

N3310, N3312, N3313, N3314, N3315,

N3316, N3317, N3319, N3321 

the problem also is that some of the other spitfires used some of the the same codes and serials. The only way to recognise MH434 is the 4 blade prop, 6 tubular exhaust stubs, 4 aperture wheels and a small dipole aerial under the rear fuselage, hope this helps. Mark

 

 

 

This is indeed useful Mark, thank you. I think it probably does allow me a little bit of latitude to just choose a few stills showing the required angles and settle upon markings which appear to make sense.

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14 hours ago, Ruskin Air Services said:

According to my battle of Britain the movie book MH434  12 different spitfires with 9 different serials.

                         Codes:

AI-A, AI-D, AI-E, AI-G, AI-H, AI-K, BO-G, 

CD-F, CD-H, CD-M, DO-N, EI-H

                         Serials:

N3310, N3312, N3313, N3314, N3315,

N3316, N3317, N3319, N3321 

the problem also is that some of the other spitfires used some of the the same codes and serials. The only way to recognise MH434 is the 4 blade prop, 6 tubular exhaust stubs, 4 aperture wheels and a small dipole aerial under the rear fuselage, hope this helps. Mark

 

I'd kike to summarize that to "Good luck Mr. Gorsky!"

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It's looking a lot like Village Photos is defunct, which is a disappointment since I have already been through this before when Photobucket did their thing.

 

In the mean time I've hosted these on my own website to hotlink here. Same story as usual - been too busy / too tired / not enough time / no motivation since the last post. I have the topsides camouflage on now though.

 

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I drew up some masks, checked the sizing with a paper print then cut them.

 

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Mostly I spent the weekend making sawdust though :D

 

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I don't fancy my chances much of Village Photos coming back. The owner has disappeared over the hill. 

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8 hours ago, Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies said:

don't fancy my chances much of Village Photos coming back. The owner has disappeared over the hill. 

Me too I've switched to postimage, which is actually very similar and a bit easier to post multiple images. 

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I got the rest of the markings painted on today:

 

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... then looked at the film still again. Spot the obligatory mistake I'm incapable of making a model without. Actually there are two errors, and I still need to fix the second one.

 

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Back to the airbrush again and that demarcation has been relocated.

 

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I need to give this paint some time to cure, then I can begin oil weathering.

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21 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said:

Jamie, the codes look great. 

As a former Airframe tech though, I can't say the same about the 'rivet' detail on the kit. Sorry.

 

 

I'm fully aware of the differences between models and real aircraft construction, but recessed rivets are much easier for the moderate level modeller to work with than the correct round headed rivets on the rear fuselage of a Spitfire, for the simple and pretty obvious reason that raised detail gets obliterated doing even the lightest of surface remedial work which pretty much all models need as a minimum.

 

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It's less about whether the feature itself is raised or recessed and more about how the modeller uses artistic skills to highlight, lowlight or leave well alone. We represent the full size object since attempting to replicate it in small scales always leads to failure.

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Nice work mate - there's a certain irony there that you had to correct your (correct) camo pattern so that it became incorrect, in order that it should correctly match the (incorrect) camo pattern of the original subject :D 

 

Cheers,

 

Stew

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5 hours ago, Stew Dapple said:

Nice work mate - there's a certain irony there that you had to correct your (correct) camo pattern so that it became incorrect, in order that it should correctly match the (incorrect) camo pattern of the original subject :D 

 

Cheers,

 

Stew

 

Is that a double negative or a quadruple negative? 

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A wee bit more done. I think I'll leave this a while now so that oil paint can dry off leaving me some way to handle it to do the other side :D

 

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The underside and wings in general need a lot more. I've only paid any attention to the port side of the fuselage so far really.

 

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Hi All,

 

I'm trying to improve my modelling productivity so I've moved my table down to the living room where I can sit near Gill when she's doing dressmaking stuff. 

 

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I've taken the stuff that's I'm actually supposed to be working on down to the living room as well. I've left the airbrush upstairs in the separate annex room I use just for that (and Shelf of Doom storage).

 

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For the last 3 years the modelling desk has been upstairs behind my work-from-home office. I thought that on the basis that I don't really do anything all day long I could spin the chair around and sneak attack a model, but in reality although I genuinely don't do anything all day long, I rarely get ten minutes without someone pinging me on MS Teams asking what I think they should do. After the day's work has been completed, spending more time sitting up here is unappealing.

 

 

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After a few weeks of drying time for the oil paint weathering, I did the other side yesterday.

 

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I also spotted that the photographs of the aircraft on the ground showed 3 spoke wheels, so I'm using these from Ultracast.

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It's still missing the rectangular rear view mirror - this isn't in the Eduard kit (or I lost it) so I'll need to raid the spares box. It also still needs an aerial rigged up - I think - need to double check. Lastly the nav lights are painted silver and need to harden up before going over with Tamiya clear red and green.

 

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