Fearsome-13
Airman
- 20
- Aug 4, 2014
Greetings from South Africa...
I present to you, for your viewing pleasure (or not).... the ICM Spitfire XVIe in 1:48.
I finished the aircraft as a low back Spitfire IXe, which the South African Air Force received at the end of the Second World War as an Imperial gift (I believe).
The kit itself was a peach to build, but needed a little bit of grey matter usage. The firewall/engine are good ideas in theory, but in practice are a nightmare. I'd done a fair bit of research on other XVIe builds, and noted that the brave few who tried to persuade the fuselage to close around the firewall, ended up with Spitties with no form of dihedral at all.
The kit was painted with Tam acrylics, finished with the Tam rattle cans, and weathered ever so slightly with pastels.
Decals were the magnificent Alley Cat SAAF Spitfire set.
This particular aircraft, was a gate guard at one of our Air Force Bases, and was restored back to airworthy status... unfortunately she was ultimately damaged extensively during a forced landing, following an engine failure.
I present to you, for your viewing pleasure (or not).... the ICM Spitfire XVIe in 1:48.
I finished the aircraft as a low back Spitfire IXe, which the South African Air Force received at the end of the Second World War as an Imperial gift (I believe).
The kit itself was a peach to build, but needed a little bit of grey matter usage. The firewall/engine are good ideas in theory, but in practice are a nightmare. I'd done a fair bit of research on other XVIe builds, and noted that the brave few who tried to persuade the fuselage to close around the firewall, ended up with Spitties with no form of dihedral at all.
The kit was painted with Tam acrylics, finished with the Tam rattle cans, and weathered ever so slightly with pastels.
Decals were the magnificent Alley Cat SAAF Spitfire set.
This particular aircraft, was a gate guard at one of our Air Force Bases, and was restored back to airworthy status... unfortunately she was ultimately damaged extensively during a forced landing, following an engine failure.
