Movie Stars in 1/48 - 1969 "Battle of Britain" Spitfire and Messerschmitt

[Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies]

I finished something. See here for build thread: 

 

Naturally there have been other tasks which have fallen casualty to my wasting time on toy planes. I find it very difficult to find motivation for models when there's an extensive backlog of more pressing tasks I must complete. As such, this modest pair have been on the go for around 2 years.

 

The Spitfire is Eduard's 1/48 Mk.IXe boxing, with a few bits adjusted to portray IXc MH434 in one of the several identities worn in the film. AI-H appears to have worn the serial "N3317", all of which I understand were stick-on lettering for the film, and is the aircraft flown by the inexperienced pilot "Simon" at the start of the film who tries to land wheels-up and is subjected to the Squadron CO's "dagga dagga dagga" one-to-one training.

 

The Buchon is a combination of Hobbycraft/Academy's utterly terrible HA-1112 Buchon nose on Eduard's very nice 1/48 Bf-109G2 with bulges added to the wings, dummy struts added to the tailplanes, squared off wing tips and a disproportionate amount of correction to the small amount of the ghastly Hobbycraft nose.

 

Naturally all paints are Colourcoats and the only decals used are the shields either side of the Buchon's cockpit. The Buchon markings were painted on using Top Notch Masks' set. For the Spitfire I drew and cut my own masks. Weathering on the Buchon is chalk pastel and Tamiya weathering powder, whilst on the Spitfire it was all done using Windsor and Newton oil paints.

 

 

 

 

 

[Bertie McBoatface]

They are both very smart, Jamie. Nice work. I particularly like the Spitfire's paintwork.

 

I'm now going have to to watch the film again for the 20th (?) time. 😀

 

 

(p.s. I think you wanted to post this in Ready for Inspection rather that Work in Progress. Report yourself to the mods, and they'll move it for you.)

 

 

[Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies]

2 minutes ago, Bertie Psmith said:

They are both very smart, Jamie. Nice work. I particularly like the Spitfire's paintwork.

 

I'm now going have to to watch the film again for the 20th (?) time. 😀

 

 

(p.s. I think you wanted to post this in Ready for Inspection rather that Work in Progress. Report yourself to the mods, and they'll move it for you.)

 

 

 

Thanks! And yes, I did goof that. I was just reporting myself to the Head Master right now

[Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies]

I can actually boast at finishing the Spitfire twice today. There has been a bit of a breeze outside so I held off going for outdoor photos for this thread after painting in the nav lights, adding the aerial and adding a mirror from an Airwaves PE set. The weather isn't looking set to improve so I decided to photo them indoors instead just to call this done. Some dust keeps settling on them though to I got a big brush to dust it off, and promptly forgot there was a mirror there which I twanged off into an alternate dimension. Naturally I'd complacently put the Airwaves PE set back at the bottom of the pile in the big drawer all that stuff lives in, so I had to dig it out again to fit a replacement mirror.

[RMCS]

Excellent 

[ColinChipmunkfan]

Great work Jamie they both look exactly as I remember them in the film.  i was lucky enough and old enough to remember seeing them flying when they made the film.

Colin😀

[corsaircorp]

Now that's a great pair of acting aircrafts !!

Congrats Jamie !!

Great idea and great build !!

Especially knowing the Buchon !!

Sincerely.

CC

[CedB]

Just caught up Jamie - what a lovely pair (fnaar!).

 

Good job that man, especially overcoming the mojo famine  

[Pete in Lincs]

Sorry, Jamie. I seem to have missed this RFI post though I did see some of the builds. 

Yep, wot they said. Excellent results and they do look as they did on screen.

[stevehnz]

Ditto the two above me Jamie, they look terrific.

Steve.

[Wulfman]

Two lovely builds, great idea !

 

Wulfman

[Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies]

On 5/14/2022 at 2:08 PM, CedB said:

Just caught up Jamie - what a lovely pair (fnaar!).

 

Good job that man, especially overcoming the mojo famine  

 

23 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said:

Sorry, Jamie. I seem to have missed this RFI post though I did see some of the builds. 

Yep, wot they said. Excellent results and they do look as they did on screen.

 

14 hours ago, stevehnz said:

Ditto the two above me Jamie, they look terrific.

Steve.

 

14 hours ago, Wulfman said:

Two lovely builds, great idea !

 

Wulfman

 

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the comments These pair have had an outing at the Scottish National Scale Model Show this weekend, from which I have just got home. The Vietnam helicopter refuelling model seemed to steal all the attention though!

 

I did look for a second hand Revell Heinkel to go with these, but an unsolicited Bf108 arrived in the post from my dad last week so I think he's trying to steer me towards continuing the this theme with 633 Squadron

[arfa1983]

I remember when you started this WIP an age ago, I followed it for some time but must have lost track of it at one point.

 

Great to see those done! You've made a fantastic job of them both!