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Bit of progress to report. I've got as far as the basic camo, illustrated thusly… Primer on, just the standard Humbrol grey stuff given a good rub down with 4000 micromesh: Humbrol 89 Mid Blue on the underside (being a brush painter I don't have any of that preshading malarkey to think...

My mistake, it was indeed £7.50 I paid. Typo.

One for my fellow Spitfans! Not a book, but an eBook. I chanced across Steve Lucas's website last week: Spitfire and Seafire | Illustrated guide to all marks and variants And have since ordered his splendid eBook for the princely sum of £6.50. It's excellent, all the gen on all the...

Looks superb!

No modelling this weekend - up in the Lakes.

On my "big list" I have a handful of aces - Bader, Beurling, Malan or Lock... otherwise aaaaall kinds of stuff on the (distant) horizon...

Looks fantastic. Those 2TAF roundels really pop!

Great choice. I look forward to seeing your brace of Mk Is come together, and welcome to the world of 1/48 (I've never looked back!). I'm conflicted on whether to do Sailor Malan's or Eric Lock's from the same boxing...

Some pictures here for them what's interested. Thanks for the encouragement along the way! https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/special-hobby-1-48-seafire-mk-iic.60817/

Finally got this one over the line: Seafire MK IIc of 807 NAS aboard HMS Battler during Operation Avalanche, the allied landings at Salerno, September 1943. Special Hobby 1/48 kit, brush painted with Humbrol enamels. A bit of a scrapper of a kit, but not the worst I've ever encountered by a long...

Thanks - I am still very much a beginner with the weathering, but on the whole I'm quite pleased with how this one turned out. Those MTO Seafires took a beating alright.

I think it does. That's why I glued to brush bristle into the wing root, to give the PPP something to sit on, otherwise it would recede into the gap. I have some regular filler somewhere but I can't find it... I've glooped it up with PPP and sand back when it's full dry to see how it comes out.

Well, here's a sprue shot, kind of... I think if I took every sprue out of every bag I wouldn't have enough floor space. It's a monster! Inside the box there's a rather nice poster print of the box artwork.

Bit of progress this afternoon, with the last bits before chancing a bit of primer. I've attached thetwo 250lb bomb mounts under the wings, each of them comes with a pair of slots that the instructions say to fill, so I have. There's no hiding from primer - little bit of work required on...

I think we can call this one finished. Better pics and a bot of commentary when I have a bit more time.