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Time to start cobbling the cockpit parts together. Here is the floor board with the foot rests and control stick in place. https://i.postimg.cc/BZgCV53y/IMG-5748.jpg I've decided to use the decaled instrument panel instead of the photoetch. Detail is noticeably heavier than the PE but this might be ...

Moving along now, I've painted most of the cockpit components separately. The green color is AK Real Color RAF Cockpit Grey Green (RC293).


The tail wheel well has been painted and weathered.

The Eduard resin exhausts are nicely detailed despite their small size. Each array is about 1/2 inch long and I was afraid of them dropping into the fuselage when it came time to install them. https://i.postimg.cc/fRx2FRd8/IMG-5739.jpg So I boxed in the area with small pieces of sheet styrene. https...

Thank you Remco! The parts with PE enhancements have been given a coat of Mr Primer Surfacer 1000 including some scratchbuilt levers on the throttle quadrant. https://i.postimg.cc/rpQpb17s/IMG-5736.jpg The other cockpit parts are here including the footrest, tubular sidewall structure, seat and rear...

Thanks guys! I've cobbled together two versions of the instrument panel. One is pre-painted Eduard photoetch panels glued onto the kit plastic parts (right). The other is the kit plastic parts with the molded detail and the kit decals placed over it (left). It took a bit of effort to get the decal t...

What?! John is working in 1/48? On a Post WWII aircraft?! :wow: :tease: Well, in any case I'm sure that this will be a great looking build to follow along. Man it sure does look to be a beauty of a kit! I wonder if Eduard tackle a Sea Fury in 1/48, since the Tempest II and Sea Fury are rather close...

Coming off a long break from modeling, I momentarily jumped back onto my Spitfire XIVe conversion but now as I await some additional 3D-printed parts from Laminar Flow Design, I am going to start something new and a little different. Straying from my normal WW2 fighter subjects, I am going to do a p...

Wow, looking good on the mods. Been keeping up on FB, blad to see you back at the bench! Thank you Lyle! The trip to Central Asia is always a high point of the year for me. The months of organizing and preparation, the actual trip itself and then the mental decompression and jetlag afterwards and g...

Hello SPAm community!  It's been a while since I've spent meaningful time at my modeling bench but I'm getting that urge again.  Not sure what project I want to continue on at the moment but as I'm contemplating, I thought I'd crack open the Spitfire build again and try to re-orient myself.  I left ...

It's been a while but I think I can get back onto this build. After starting this build, I've learned that the XIVe cockpit differs in some ways from the XVIe and I wanted to attempt to address some of those differences. The most significant is a big control panel that resides on the port sidewall. ...