South Rhodesian Spitfire F Mk22
As usual I started with the cockpit. Pedals, seat and Armor plating is PE. It is a bit insane as the cockpit is usually hard to see, but I will build this one with Open canopy and side door. It is also my first time using Mig Ultra Glue for the PE. So far it has been a good experience.
Finished the cocpit and glued the fuselage. As usual it will be hard to see, but the seat belte added a nice touch. The instruments are really cool but will be nearly invisible.
It starts to look like an airplane. The fuselage seams were pretty rough so I used a tad of putty. It is possible I could have just sanded them, but better safe than sorry. So far the fit has been thight and a bit of sanding was neccesary to get a smoothie fit between fuselage and wings.
Ready for som decals. I painted the model using Testor aircraft gray as the base color with some «modulation» using Tamiya KF-23 and XF-80
Decaling is done.
Dark grey oil wash
Finished!
Komentarzy
20 30 July 2022, 02:57
Erik TorpThanks for the comments. The plane is now finished. It was a quick and rather easy build. The kit would have been brilliant if the kit accuracy had been better. But if you want something that is straight forward to build and «looks like a Spitfire» go ahead. I had a good time building it and learned a bit regarding Spitfires in Rhodesia on the way.
2 August 2022, 22:39
Moreno BaruffiniThanks for the general description of the kit and congratulations for the result! I find the panels highlighting very good!
3 August 2022, 07:59
Album info
This is the 1/72 scale Special Hobby Spitfire F. The kit is a «High Tech» edition which means it comes with some resin and PE parts. According to several modelling forums the kit has several accuracy issues, but IMHO it looks to good not to be built ?
One major issue with the kit is that there are no instructions for the PE parts. Some of the parts are easily recognized, but there are several bits I have no clue about. If the kit fits as good as it looks this will be a fun build. As mentioned in the heading this will be the South Rhodesian version.
