SPA Modeler

Hi all!

So I said I’d post up my currant WIP...


...this is the OLD TOOL Airfix 1/72 Supermarine Spitfire mk.Vb. dating back from the 1970/80s I think. It was in the white boxing. It’s not a bad little kit which went together well enough with only a little bit of filler ( I use the water based Perfect plastic putty) – The shapes not too bad although the canopy is a little bit off. I didn’t add any interior although I did have a fair stab at painting the pilot.

Painting is in Humbrol Acrylics – and the markings will be to represent a AIR/SEA Rescue aircraft used during D-Day (from the Xtradecal D-Day anniversary sheet.









Sorting out the stripe on the underside



I need to take some more pictures, as I’ve finished the painting and am onto the decals.

Thanks for looking

Stuart

Love that signature!

Kit work looks good to me.

LyleW wrote:Love that signature!

Kit work looks good to me.

Thanks Lyle!

The signatures been my motto for years – along with…‘Aim low – Achieve your goals and avoid disappointment’

Looks very good Stuart, very nice paint work
( and the picture quality ok & authentic! )

- Kari

KSaarni wrote:Looks very good Stuart, very nice paint work
( and the picture quality ok & authentic! )

- Kari

Thanks Kari!

Although I have a proper Digicam - but as my access to a PC is limited, I take most of my WIP shots with my phone as it's easier to just upload them with the photobucket app.However the phone I have at present is blooming awful - no flash and a fixed field of focus! - real Box Borwnie situation. I try to make the best of it

Cheers

Stuart

Thought that kits of this era aren´t allowed to be build. Protection of species, or sort of... :Squirrel:

Pictures? Great!
Build? Same!

Mission accomplished! Thanks for showing this here, Stuart!

I like it! Long live the old kits and their builders!

Thomas_M wrote:Thought that kits of this era aren´t allowed to be build. Protection of species, or sort of... :Squirrel:

Pictures? Great!
Build? Same!

Mission accomplished! Thanks for showing this here, Stuart!

Thanks Thomas!

lol old models are supposed to be built! I'm a modeler, not a collector!

This is the box...

Stikpusher wrote:I like it! Long live the old kits and their builders!

I totally agree Stik - Thanks!

Progress so far - painting finished - Humbrol clear on and decals started.

Those xtradecals perform pretty well with just water and decalfix



Cheers

Stuart