Spitfire V Progress
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All the bits and pieces, almost 😉..
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Cockpit is finished! 🙂 The green is Tamiya XF-71. Silver is Mr.Color SM01.
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All PE is from the Eduard pack.
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Preshading.
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Masking for the second camo color.
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I used Tamiya XF-59 and XF-82 for the camo. Underside is XF-80.
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It is finished!
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I attached a piece of aluminium foil as a mirror after I took this picture.
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I had to carve out the exhausts as they were solid in the kit.
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The kit did not have riveting detail. I did that in a previous stage.
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The Eduard kit came with break lines for the landing gear.
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Picture showing the area where I had problems with the alignment of the landing gear.
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Picture showing the design of the landing gear construction.
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Hard to align and easy to break off..
Комментарии
1 28 September 2018, 19:15
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I've started another Spitfire. This time it is a Spit V in desert camoflage.
28 September 2018, 19:16
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You're welcome David! It's a really nice kit. Good details and looked to be a nice fit when I tested it.
28 September 2018, 20:24
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Good to know, have fun with the build. 🙂 Progress looks good already!
28 September 2018, 22:16
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Thank you Spanjaard and David! 🙂
A little update. The cockpit is finished. I've also sealed the plane and painted the base camoflage. I really like how easy this kit has been to build. 🙂
2 October 2018, 10:59
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The Spit Vb is finished. As I said before, a really nice kit. The only gripe I have with it is the attachment of the landing gear.It was very hard to get it to sit right, and I managed to break it off a couple of times during weathering. (I'm still not sure it is sitting as it should..). Otherwise I highly enjoyed building it. 🙂
5 October 2018, 06:56
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No worries Björn, it looks still really great without rigging😉
Btw: What do you think of this kit?
5 October 2018, 08:27
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I really liked the kit. It was easy to build and had really nice detail. The only thing I had a problem with was the alignment of the landing gear. The construction was over-complicated in my opinion, but it was still just a minor problem. I added some pictures to show the problem area.
5 October 2018, 09:29
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Ok that sounds good and the point with the landing gear seems manageable😉 Thx for sharing.
5 October 2018, 09:45
Album info
Progress pictures of my build of the Spitfire V in desert livery.