Greetings again all and thanks for the comments. A little more to show and a question at the end.
The underside got a bit more treatment by filing down the prominent ledge of the radiator baths to make them more flush with the wing surface:
I also forgot to mention yesterday that another mod to the kit was to drill out the small port for the gun camera in the starboard wing root.
With that all done, it was time to get on with painting the undersides. The yellow wing leading edge strips were masked and a patchwork of black and white splotches was laid down.
Next, a thin coat of Tamiya XF-83 MSG ws applied leaving some of the patches to show through.
The extensive filling and sanding at the back of the wing turned out well. Some big gaps were present here early on.
And today, I mulled over the Type C1 roundels that I would need for the wing uppers. It turns out that I have a spare set of the blue-white-red Type C decals scaling to the correct 56 inch diameter in my stash, which I will use. However, I do not have any with the yellow border that was added late in the war. I therefore sprayed a pair of yellow rings (same formula as the leading edges done yetserday) with the intent to apply a circular mask to the outer edge of the ring when I paint the upper camo colours.
The question to
Wurger
,
le_steph40
, or
Airframes
is this: Because the 56" roundel just barely fit into the space between the yellow leading edge strip and the aileron, do you think the yellow ring was painted OUTSIDE the 56" diameter or WITHIN it? I have not found clear documentation on this but I'm leaning toward the latter because if you look at the below detail of the picture I put up in post 111, the arrows point to where the yellow paint has flaked away, apparently leaving the original dark blue showing underneath. This would mean that, at least for Spitfires of 416 Squadron, the yellow ring was added inside the 56" diameter, reducing the dark blue field by the width of the yellow strip so as not to encroach on the leading edge strip and aileron. This would make the roundel look consistent with all other photos and profiles that I've seen of this late roundel on Spitfires (though some had the smaller 36" ones as seen in post #13).
Any thoughts on this or documentation supporting one way or the other would be appreciated.