Some kind of a Desert Eagle

Rando Dude Аутор
After a short hiatus back with a new project of an ancient kit in a somewhat recent boxing. Směr's release of a 1970ies Heller Spitfire V complete with a few PE parts and photofilm.
A British Aircraft used by Americans in a North African campaign, let's see how this will turn out. I expect some more learning experience for my skills towards work with PE parts and photofilm and a lot of fun building and painting an interesting camo scheme.

Alex K
A Spit and an old-tool kit? I'm in...

Rando Dude Аутор
Hello and welcome Alex, have a seat 🙂

Moreno Baruffini
I'm in tooo!!!!!!!

Rando Dude Аутор
Welcome Moreno! I hope you enoy 🙂

Rando Dude Аутор
Started painting, but I'm not sure yet if I will try free hand the camo scheme again or cut masks?

Moreno Baruffini
Having Spitfires a standard camo, I suggest to cut masks 🙂

Finn
Following

Rando Dude Аутор
Hello Finn, and welcome 🙂

Rando Dude Аутор
Decided to go and cut masks for the paint scheme. Probably not the most accurate but close enough for me.
Pro: nice, sharp lines
Con: takes quite some time to cut and apply

Nicolas
I'm following for the rest of the build. Looks god so far.

Rando Dude Аутор
Thank you Nicolas.

Rando
Looks very nice, making that old kit really shine! One thing I tried for my recent Mosquito build was Tamiya curved masking tape to make a similar camo pattern. I filled in the masked area with tape and scraps of paper towel. Worked pretty nice and took about a day to do.

Rando Dude Аутор
Thank you Rando. Curved masking tape sounds like a good idea, I will see if I can get my hands on some soon.

Rando Dude Аутор
And finished. I kind of doubt that the stencil decals are properly scaled, but such is not something I am too concerned about.

Alex K
I like this! 👍

Rando
Awesome work and display!

Rando Dude Аутор
Thank you Alex and Rando 🙂

Additional note: The canopy comes in three parts so I guess it was intended to also be displayed with an open cockpit and the center part being slid back. However that does not work well due to the glass being rather thick. Unless the small back part of the canopy is completely omitted. Probably, I did not try it because I just had the idea..

Moreno Baruffini
I like this! The canopy seems ok already!

Robert Podkoński
Great job on this dinosaur!

Rando Dude Аутор
Thank you Moreno and Robert 🙂