**** DONE: 1/24 Spitfire Mk.Vb Floatplane – Home Country Modern Aircraft/Spitfire GB

[meatloaf109]

Maybe, but 1/8th inch on a 1/24 scale plane would be...um,
Let's see...carry the 2...Pi is ......
Well, alot!

 

[ccheese]

Sunday Morning.... Repairs are complete and four coats of the Dark Sea Gray have been applied. Tomorrow I will touch up the camo with the Dark Slate Gray.

Just remember.... the repaired area does not have any clear coat on it, so it looks kinda blah....

Charles

 

[Wurger]

Looking great. Almost , no trace of the repair can be noticed. Well done.

 

[brucejscott]

Great job Charles!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice repair Charles.

 

[Airframes]

I agree with all, nicely done Charles. Once that's clear coated, you'd never know there'd been a flak shell through it !

 

[A4K]

Likewise, looks great to me Charles! Learnt a little something from you there too, thanks!

 

[Wayne Little]

Sweet work Charles!

 

[Crimea_River]

Yup, sure is.

 

[rochie]

very, very nice Charles

 

[ccheese]

Touched up the Dark Slate Gray on the camo, today. Will airbrush a couple coats of clear on tomorrow. Can't find the thin striping I want to outline the ailerons, rudder, flaps and stabilizer. That may have to wait til my LHS gets some in. Pic's tomorrow....

Charles

 

[woody]

Nice repair Charles.

 

[Gnomey]

Looking good Charles!

 

[Matt308]

Wonderful work, Mr. C.

 

[ccheese]

Thanks Matt Jerry. Got two good coats of MM's Lacquer Clear-Coat on the floatplane this morning. You can hardly notice the damaged area. Made an antenna mast out of a shrimp skewer and used my variable speed Ryobi power drill and some sandpaper to shape it. Cut a hole in the top of the fuselage, to get to some wood, and super-glued the mast in place.

Does anybody have a good pic of the Spit pitot tube ? The plans call for a bent pin under the port wing. A bent pin ? Gimme a break !! Surely I can do better than a bent pin.

The LHS still tells me the supplier of the black tape I wanna use to outline the ailerons, flaps, rudder, etc is still on back order. I guess I can wait a bit, or I can stick a bent pin under the wing, attach the canopy and call it finished.

Charles

 

[rochie]

here you go Charles, looks good, shame to just stick a bent pin it it !

 

[A4K]

Great stuff Charles and Karl!

Seems my last post didn't work for some reason...wrote that you could paint spare decal film (or spare unneeded decals) black and cut them into strips for the control surface outlines. Airfix also border their decal sheets in thin black (decal) outline too - have some spare if you want them.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice bit of team work chaps but not a bent pin please Charles. Maybe a sliver of balsa for the flat bit and another bit in your power drill nicely turned to a rod in the size required and you have the pieces for a pitot head.

 

[brucejscott]

Really looks great Charles. Keep up the good work.

 

[ccheese]

Found some striping tape in a craft store and outlined the ailerons, rudder and stabilizer. After I got them on I brushed on a coat of clear.

Tomorrow the canopy and the antenna wire.... and scratch the pitot tube.

Charles