**** DONE: 1/48 Spitfire FR.lX - Jet/Recon/Transport GB

[Airframes]

Me too,too, too !

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Well as most of you are hanging on the post, I'll say it's okay be me George. So it looks like you have a majority in favour mate…

 

[Crimea_River]

No problem! I like the bit of nose art too.

 

[Wayne Little]

There it is then....

 

[fubar57]

Merci beau-coup gentlemen and thanks Bill for stuffing the ballot box. Not a lot to report. The usual glitch arrived in the form of separate wing tips. To get the "best" fit I had to clip off the attachment points. File and sand is the order of the day and then redo the panel lines. The trailing edge mis-match will be built up will plastic and sanded down to square everything up.

Geo

 

[Crimea_River]

Very similar to the ICM wing tips but theirs also vary in thickness. Royal pain.

 

[T Bolt]

Nothing a little filler and scribing won't fix.

 

[fubar57]

It starts. It's pretty ugly so it's going to take more than one layer. So far, I've managed to save the panel lines as they were quite deep.

Geo

 

[ccheese]

Nice work !! That will come out great with some paint on it....

Charles

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far Geo!

 

[Crimea_River]

Yeah, one more layer needed.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looks like you're on the right track.

 

[Wayne Little]

Almost done! keep up the good work...

 

[Wurger]

With all. Looking good.

 

[woody]

Doing good Geo.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks for the encouragement all. Still mudding and sanding. As Andy said, the wings and the tips are different thicknesses, so I got the best fit I could for the top and am puttying the bejaysus out of the bottom. As can be seen, a little more work in the red square and then add some plastic to even things out in the yellow square. Starboard side yet to sanded. The top side needs work also but not as bad as the bottom.

Geo

 

[Crimea_River]

That oughta do it!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looks like a mudpack! Should do the trick though.

 

[Wayne Little]

Got it covered...by the look of it...

 

[fubar57]

Added some plastic strip to square up the wing-tip to the wing. Not to shabby.

Geo