Belgian Spitfire Mk. XIVc
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9 November 2015, 12:11
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I saw some pictures of a model in a french museum of a Spitfire Mk.XIV with a black interior. It looked plausible because on a tempest some afterwar examples had the interior repainted to barley grey lower half and black upperhalf... Then I asked some questions about this to a friend, and he knew someone who flew these once, and all he could remember is that the interior was green. The version will be an XIV without bubbletop canopy, and I think with clipped wings, but my girlfriend will decide eventually...
27 November 2015, 12:42
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Thx mates. My girlfriend has decided on the colors... natural metal. Now on to a search for decals for these... All I have at the moment are white and sky one's for camouflaged versions...
5 January 2016, 09:48
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Great work Bart, rivets looks very good. Must try it myself once too. 👍
5 January 2016, 10:57
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added the black basecoat with alclad gloss black... where there was some primer (Motip) left on the surface of the model paint cracked instantly. Got the advice to polish more thoroughly or to add some gloss lacquer from alclad... Any more ideas?
19 January 2016, 12:14
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after a lot of polishing at least some sheen on the black. Now its time to clean it up and prepare to spray some alclad on it...
19 January 2016, 12:37
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maybe, but the motip was applied almost a month before the alclad gloss black, so one should suppose that these would have disappeared...
19 January 2016, 13:03
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been looking for what number would be possible with this kit (C-wing, Malcolm canopy, no camouflage), and not so many it seems: SG-1 (scrapped in camo version), -2, -5 (Koksijde based), -10, -27, -68, -69, -113, -114 and -115 (Koksijde based). I've found a picture of SG-5 and of SG-115. According to wingspalette SG-54 should be an E-wing, but a C-wing has been drawn... Anyone has some more info on these aircraft? Did all koksijde based aircraft have yellow noses with a black line at the end of the spinner?
21 January 2016, 15:04
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It's coming, but was busy in my girlfriends house for a longer time then anticipated. Yesterday the model almost died premature... It fell two times and a bottle of alclad fell on the wing...
3 October 2016, 18:09
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i hope no permanent damage, specially with the Alclad, can really be quite ... unforgiving. i had and accident on my living room table, and it has never been the same 😛
3 October 2016, 21:11
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Finished painting... It was a pain... Tape isn't meant to be there more then a year...
16 October 2016, 19:15
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Bart, Don't get fixed on Wings Palette... Some of the drawings there are simply wrong 🙂.. Depending on which one you want to build, you need to take into account that some of the SM- coded Spit's were also equiped for recce tasks (alhtough not used by the Belgian Air Force). Almost all Koksijde based had the yellow spinner and the balck anti-glare paint on the nose.
SG-2 was never Koksijde based according to my information.
19 October 2016, 05:41
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@Günther: as from pictures, I think I can settle with SG-5 or SG-22, SG-29 and SG-61 were recon versions... these are the ones I found that have the right spinner and canopy type... time to get back to my references
@Holger: Normally it should be Griffon-powered. But it's the academy version, so accuracy dimensionwise is euh... lost somewhere. When you want some resin exhausts for this version, you get a new nose...
19 October 2016, 08:06
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finally decided on SG-22, started decalling, and the Daco decals are to recommend... a pleasure to work with. One question, under the nose off the aircraft, there seems to be a letter in a colored circle, but on the decal instructions, it is mentioned, but not which the color the circle has, and which letter should be in it..
1 December 2016, 17:33
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Bart, Op deze foto : belgian-wings.be/Web..it%2014%20SG083.html
zie je bij SG83 / IQ-C een zwarte C in een rode cirkel . Dus SG22 IQ-O kan een zwarte O in een rode cirkel hebben onder de neus.
2 December 2016, 15:44
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Finally I've chosen for a yellow circle with a black O, mostly because off the yellow spinner. I know the picture from Erik shows a red circle, but it has a differentiatie color for the spinner.
5 December 2016, 07:24
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Thx, I used dymo tape as a guide, the rivetter from trumpeter and a scribing needle from Excell. With the trumpeter tool I marked the place for the rivets, and with the needle I made the line markings round and deeper, though it seems they should have been a bit deeper in the end. I found that following the tape with the trumpeter tool was the hardest part.
5 December 2016, 08:18
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Finally finished this one for the misses... Took a lot of time due to a very limited amount of modeling time, and a lot of repairing due to not having a place to store some models in progress, so it spent most of it's time in my car...
In all, I think it turned out descent, but with flaws, like damages in the paint, at the end the hull cracked open at the seam, legs broke off, and had to scratch the details like the mirror and the pitot because the were lost.
When I gave it to my girlfriend, first question: and what would this model do in a contest... Would you get a price? When I said no, she was disappointed, but I know I can do better then this. But it's difficult to make a high grade model when you are busy and 5 minutes later the question comes: is it again for the whole evening? Do I really need to sit here alone?
27 August 2017, 06:39
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if you find the answer to all those questions, we all want to know😉
until then, enjoy your finish model. it is quite nice. can it be done better, of course, otherwise what will be the point of keeping doing models😉
27 August 2017, 21:22
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Very nice job, I think it turned out great. Metal finishes are not easy (I am attempting my first one now). Funny story about the GF - she and my wife could swap stories... (not that we would like to hear them 😄 )
29 August 2017, 00:23
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Thx for the compliments
that's why I'd like her to come to the club-meetings with the other wives (they don't come also, pity)... we can build and they can complain about their boys and their toys...
29 August 2017, 06:20