Supermarine Seafire Mk.III Aeronavale
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16 17 April 2023, 21:06
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The kit cockpit is pretty much bare. Added some scratch-built detail based on the resin from the Octopus kit.
Using the cockpit floor and aft bulkhead from an old Italeri Mk.9 kit in the parts box. I glued the fuselage together, before adding the instrument panel and bulkhead from underneath.
Had to trim the bulkhead a bit to get it to fit, but overall happy with the way the fuselage went together.
A bit of trimming was required on the wing-root to get the fuselage/wing to fit. Going to need a bit of filler to smooth things out.
The horizontal stabilizers had small locating tabs, but it ended up pretty much just a butt-joint.
7 May 2023, 21:43
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The kit includes metal cannon barrels. I didn't want to deal with the hassle to mount those, so I used some Airfix ones I had in the spare parts stash. Same with the gear legs, so using the plastic gear legs from the Octopus kit. The kit-Included resin wheels are 4-Spoke, but all the pictures I looked at online and in books showed the Seafire IIIC using a 5-Spoke wheels. Got a True Details set out of the stash and painted those up ready to install. Painted the exhaust stubs and the main landing gear. Used a AMMO by MiG wash to try to bring out some of the details. Propellor Spinner went together well.
Tracing the camouflage paint markings.
26 June 2023, 12:31
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Super interesting! (I miss this..)
Why are you assembling this exotic kit and not the Octopus?
Oh sorry, you are building both the kits! Super!
26 June 2023, 18:39
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The air intake and oil cooler were molded solid. Using a small drill and #11 x-acto blade, opened up the oil cooler inlet and outlet, and the air intake.
Started the paint. Using Humbrol 90 for the lower surfaces.
15 July 2023, 20:15
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Looking great, taking a seat to montor the project. Did actually the same plane individ in 1:48 by Special Hobby
18 July 2023, 11:42
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Masked the canopy by hand. One of these days I am going to buy a masking set…
Camoflague painted with Humbrol 123 Extra Dark Sea Grey and 224 Dark Slate Grey
25 August 2023, 03:41
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Gloss-Coat on and started decalling… and already screwed up a couple of the decals. Don't have any in the stash that would work. Found a kit decal sheet on eBay, and ended up paying more for it than I spent on the kit in the first place.
While I am waiting for those to come in the mail, started doing the panel-lines on the lower surface. Using an AMMO by MIG wash.
6 September 2023, 02:50
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Don't worry Gordon, I'm usually also spend more on decals than on kits 🙂
6 September 2023, 05:46