Douglas Bader
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8 17 September 2020, 21:06
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First of all I split the box content to both kits to work on each separately even though I'll build these side by side. So here is Bader's Spitfire Mk.I and I will make another gallery for McKellar's mount.
As always it took me a while to get the cockpit done. The many options regarding the markings and time frame while working on two kits do not make things easier. All in all I am pretty happy with the result but I know it is a rather basic job.
At the same time I was working on the wings. Here eduard has the straight wheel bay rear wall interchanged (R18/R19) in the printed instructions. It was corrected on the online version. It is pretty obvious as one of the parts has a cutout that fits over the inner structure ... if you are at this point of the build you will know what I mean.
18 September 2020, 17:44
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With wing and fuselage done I glued these together. The fit is good though I needed a little bit of filler to blend in the wing to fuselage joint.
18 September 2020, 17:45
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Thank you! I have added the control surfaces at the tail, the coolers an the u/c legs. I am not sure if the instructions have some more errors here or if I just made one or another small building mistakes. The legs did not fit as good as I expected, but it was manageable.
19 September 2020, 20:05
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As with the other kit I have attached the gun sight and put on the fixed canopy parts
29 September 2020, 21:09
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Cheers Clifford!
As with the other Spit I I have glued in the cockpit door with Maskol and cut one of the spare closed canopies to shape to fit in (also attached with Maskol). I masked the canopy with the included kabuki tape masks set for the armored windscreen. I sprayed interior green first and the underside got some black... here it is a little bit more as only the wing will be black/white and front and rear underside silver
4 October 2020, 16:54
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After some more masking and painting silver and white I finally started with the upper camo today. I used Mission Models Dark Earth as the first layer. These paint works pretty well though I still prefer Gunze and Tamiya.
18 October 2020, 17:25
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For the camo I copied Tamiya's large instructions As per Eduard instructions this has the mirrored scheme compared to the Tamiya kit (I always forget which is A and B) So after some weeks on and off this is ready for Mission Models dark green. (...which is in the paint shaker right now)
12 November 2020, 16:06
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Looks good all masked up ready for paint. I am growing rather fond of Mission Models paints as well as MRP acrylic's.
12 November 2020, 22:56
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Cheers Clifford!
Well, I would prefer Gunze or Tamiya acrylics any time. But I bought some of the MMP (Mission Models Paint) and Mr. Paint products to test these. I still have to use Mr. Paint (bought some jet colours for my Iranian F-14A) but I have tried the MMP and the results are so so. The colours are good but the behaviour of the paint is not to my full satisfaction.
1. sometimes I need to touch up with a brush but the MMP paint does look very different to the airbrush application (I'll add a photo to the McKellar gallery later today to show what I mean.
2. When airbrushing thinned paint I got some build ups that have a totally different tone than the base paint. This only happens with some colours. I had bad results with Azure Blue for instance
To round things up: MMP is not bad but I prefer Gunze/Tamiya. I thint it is a matter of formation fluid as Gunze/Tamiya are alcohol based while MMP seems to be kind of water based. I also know people who get premium results with Revells acrylic paints, while I always have similar problems like with MMP. So from more objective point it is probably a matter of handling and mistakes on my part.
13 November 2020, 09:43
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Here is the kit after airbrushing the DG and a gloss coat with Tamiya X-22 Clear Gloss.
you may notice the sunk in plastic near the wing tips ... this is the result of too much glue. Nothing I can do about it without ruining the whole surface as you can see here I tried. Stupid mistake. luckily it is the underside.
13 November 2020, 10:21
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I like Tamiya paints also. Gunze are kind of hard to get here in the States, the ones I have been able to get I like. I used to use Model Master acrylics, but they have discontinued alot of their colors, so can't use them any more. So hence the MM and MRP. I have used Ammo of Mig and vallejo. Vallejo is kind of hard to get the right thinness to spray.
15 November 2020, 18:40
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I also started applying the decals on this kit. I prefer to apply the larger decals first to get a bit of easy progress. Still it was necessary to start with the wing walks ... now on to the many stencils
17 November 2020, 10:56
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Well, it has been a loong time since my last post. Several weeks of applying decals were not much fun and I lost a bit of motivation. Still the stencils are on and sealed and I applied my usual sludge wash of umber and black (more black on the upper side very little below). Before flat coat I want to attach the wheels and u/c doors.... but first I will be on x-mas vacation and avoid this double project ... I started a tank for a little variation
19 December 2020, 14:27