Belgian Spitfire Mk. XIVc

Holger Kranich
Aha Bart strikes back! Cool work on the Panel!

yvan van impe
heb het live gezien

Jens
beautiful detail, until then really succeeded

Günther Debiscop
Following

Bart Goesaert
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...

Bart Goesaert
a little progress placing rivets...

Martien Lourens
I build this one. Nice start.

Gary
Very nice instument panel. Gary

Bart Goesaert
thx, making the rivet holes should been done now...

Michel Huijghe
Always great to see a Belgian Spitfire

Thomas Bischoff
count me in

Bart Goesaert
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...

Erik Leijdens
Great work Bart, rivets looks very good. Must try it myself once too. 👍

Stephan Ryll
Very nice job on that bird 👍

soheil moghisi
Perfect.

Bart Goesaert
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?

Bart Goesaert
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...

Bart Goesaert
maybe, but the motip was applied almost a month before the alclad gloss black, so one should suppose that these would have disappeared...

Bart Goesaert
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?

Spanjaard
no more updates? would love to see the final product

Martien Lourens
Very nice. 👍

Bart Goesaert
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...

Spanjaard
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 😛

Bart Goesaert
Finished painting... It was a pain... Tape isn't meant to be there more then a year...

Günther Debiscop
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.

Holger Kranich
Hey Bart, is this a Spitty with a Merlin engine?

Bart Goesaert
@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...

Bart Goesaert
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..

Arash Zakeri
Nice

Erik De Smet
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.

Bart Goesaert
Ok, thx a lot

Bart Goesaert
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.

Lex Jassies
Very nice result Bart. What tool did you use for the rivets?

Bart Goesaert
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.

Bart Goesaert
Long time ago, but some small progress

Bart Goesaert
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?

Christian Bruer
Very nice finish 👍

Spanjaard
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😉

Alec K
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 😄 )

Bart Goesaert
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...