Well, seems you're trying to make life as difficult as possible Vic...good luck mate!
**** DONE: 1/48 Spitfire Mk.II – 266 (Rhodesia) Sqn, RAF Wittering. BofB Group Build
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Vic Balshaw
Major General
Well, seems you're trying to make life as difficult as possible Vic...good luck mate!
Just rising to the challenge old chap...............
Heinz
Captain
Got some work for yourself there Vic! 
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Vic Balshaw
Major General
I intended only to do the Spitfire after my other entry, however, having experimenting with varying methods of stripping the original paint I was kind of sucked in and this is the result so far.
The pieces of the kit prior to stripping the paint
After stripping and painting. Thanks to the help of Wojetk, a soak in brake fluid took a good part of the paint off, but where gloss was used I had to revert to scraping and as the kit has raised panel lines, some re-scribing was required.
Port and stbd cockpit walls from the box. Not much detail.
After a little work.
The final finish.
The instrument panel after having had to scraped away the white paint blobs and subsequently all the detail.
The almost finishes instrument panel after raiding the bits box and scratch building.
No cockpit flooring of any sort is provided, so I made one.
The port and stbd wheel wells were a bit rough as well, so again we improved them. My information indicated that the port and stbd had different strengthening. I also hunted for a grill for the under wing radiator inlet (I think that's what it is) which is a little course but later this evening I found something finer, so will replace it.
Next up, I hope to get it all closed up and painted.
The pieces of the kit prior to stripping the paint
After stripping and painting. Thanks to the help of Wojetk, a soak in brake fluid took a good part of the paint off, but where gloss was used I had to revert to scraping and as the kit has raised panel lines, some re-scribing was required.
Port and stbd cockpit walls from the box. Not much detail.
After a little work.
The final finish.
The instrument panel after having had to scraped away the white paint blobs and subsequently all the detail.
The almost finishes instrument panel after raiding the bits box and scratch building.
No cockpit flooring of any sort is provided, so I made one.
The port and stbd wheel wells were a bit rough as well, so again we improved them. My information indicated that the port and stbd had different strengthening. I also hunted for a grill for the under wing radiator inlet (I think that's what it is) which is a little course but later this evening I found something finer, so will replace it.
Next up, I hope to get it all closed up and painted.
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ozhawk40
Master Sergeant
Wow! Bloody good work there mate! 8)
Done a great job so far Vic, Good work mate!!
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Vic Balshaw
Major General
Thanks guys
T Bolt
Colonel
Great detailing Vic 
lesofprimus
Brigadier General
Great job so far in re-vitalizing this one, the pit work looks pretty damn good...
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Nicely done Vic!
Crimea_River
Marshal
Lovely work Vic. Looks like you're well on your way to turning this one into a showpiece.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Excellent Vic, bl**dy marvellous job mate ! It's too late to change the undercarriage selector, but if you can do something to the cockpit entrance flap, it would look more authentic. The crow bar wasn't fitted until after the Battle, mainly as a result of hoods being stuck in an emergency, and then mainly due to slipstream pressure. (no canopy jettison on the Mk1 at that stage.)
The flap itself had two vertical frames in the centre also, equally spaced.
Just getting that paint off was an achievement, but the scratch-building has really improved the whole lot. Well done mate.
The flap itself had two vertical frames in the centre also, equally spaced.
Just getting that paint off was an achievement, but the scratch-building has really improved the whole lot. Well done mate.
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Vic Balshaw
Major General
Thank you one and all, your comments are much appreciated.
Thanks also Terry for the info on the flap cover , I'll see what I can do, hopefully it's not to late.
Thanks also Terry for the info on the flap cover , I'll see what I can do, hopefully it's not to late.
whoa !!!! amazing job Vic
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Vic Balshaw
Major General
Thanks Karl and Lewis, other duties prevented modelling yesterday, but I hope to get a bit more done today
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Vic Balshaw
Major General
Just a couple more pictures of progress to date. I managed to close the fuselage up yesterday and have spent most of today cleaning seams and re-scribing raised panel lines. I also got the wings together yesterday and again have used today to clean them up. With this being a second build of this model, my having pulled it apart earlier in the piece, the new joins are not so good. When the wings were mounted on the fuselage.........................................................................well, the last picture tell the story.
The cockpit mounted into the stbd side of the fuselage half.
Oh dear.......................................not to worry, I've stuck in some slivers of Evergreen plastic to fill the gaps and a good coating of thick Zap-a Gap.
The cockpit mounted into the stbd side of the fuselage half.
Oh dear.......................................not to worry, I've stuck in some slivers of Evergreen plastic to fill the gaps and a good coating of thick Zap-a Gap.
