SPA Modeler

Here's the box art and contents. Not a real complicated kit, and I'm OK with that.

Nice! I enjoyed building this one.

Nice! A long nosed version. That looks more like a plane than the short nosed version. Looking forward to watching this!

Im with you Mark on liking the look of the long nose version better also.
Gonna enjoy watching this build!

Nice! I’m doing the short nose version of the Skyrocket.

Some progress. I painted the instrument panel with Model Master Black Chrome, and filled the dial faces with a dark grey, and then overcoated the faces with Alclad Gloss Clear. I can see I need to touch up some of the areas around the gauges in the pictures. It looked great while I was doing it, as usual. The panel will be very hard to see with a closed canopy.

There is no real alignment left and right for the fuselage on the wing. It looked easier to glue the nose on the wing first, as it at least had some guide rails on the wing. I think building the short nose version will be difficult because of this because the nose comes in three parts and has no fit to the leading edge of the wing. Good luck, Tom!.

Looking good so far John. Just curious, but why use Black Chrome on the IP, instead of Flat Black or say Model Master Aircraft Black?

I painted mine Tamiya German Grey since the color call out is Black Grey.

Very cool! I agree that the long nose version looks better.

Medicman71 wrote:Very cool! I agree that the long nose version looks better.