**** DONE: GB-62 1/48 Spitfire Mk.Vb(1) - Spitfires

[fubar57]

Getting ready for "Starkey" stripes and fuselage band. I should have changed background but I've been busy with pharmacy and hospital trying to locate my gut shot

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The paint is Vallejo White primer so I'll let this sit until tomorrow before I start masking spaying

 

[SaparotRob]

.. I should have changed background but I've been busy with pharmacy and hospital trying to locate my gut shot

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Say what?

 

[fubar57]

Every three months I get a needle that inserts a pellet into my stomach. This destroys testosterone that feeds cancer. According to doctors who don't regularily inject me, the needle is the biggest they have ever seen. When someone asks me how it feels I tell them it feels like they are injecting the pellet into me using a blunt garden hose

 

[SaparotRob]

"Yikes" seems somehow inadequate.

 

[Crimea_River]

Well, it's good to have you around Geo. Beats the alternative.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Goodness me George, I'll never again be able to water the garden without thinking of pellets popping out of the spout!

 

[fubar57]

Good news is, they finally found it. Better news is, I was put on a waiting list for surgery last month; yesterday they phoned and I'm slated for next Friday. I kinda feel sorry for two people on my crew who have been waiting for months. Anyhoo.....more spritz, spritz, spritzing. This time the fuselage band and spinner painted Sky

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I did a 3:1 mix of Tamiya XF-21 Sky and XF-2 White. Why not just XF-21? Why, I'll shows ya

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I'll start masking and spraying the stripes tomorrow afternoonish

 

[Wurger]

 

[Jock Tamson]

Noice !

 

[rochie]

Looks a great match Geo

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looks great George and good luck for next Friday, hope all goes well.

 

[Berny5664]

Great Geo, if the surgery comes like your Sky, it will be perfect... Good luck Fubar

 

[le_steph40]

George

 

[Crimea_River]

That's close to my mix as well. Good news about the surgery Geo and best wishes for a good outcome.

 

[Airframes]

Hope all goes smoothly with the surgery Geo.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks all. Starting to attain a Starkey-like appearance. Sprayed on Tamiya Nato Black.

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Still a long way off. I'm thinking this didn't have an antenna running from the tail to the mast so do I remove the tail post. Also, will this have cheese cutter antennae? I can't see any post or antennae in the photo I have on Page 1

 

[Crimea_River]

Cheese cutters were replaced by the
IFF MkIII system through 1943. This system used the spike antenna under the starboard wing so if you can find a spike antenna in your pics then ditch the wires.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Andy, will do. Tother side done. I made this harder than it should have been. Instead of cutting thin strips and lining them up with the top, I tried to get big ole fat pieces to line up. It only occurred to me as I was typing now

 

[vandee]

Practice "invasion stripes"? Nice job whatever they are.

 

[fubar57]

Practice "invasion stripes"? Nice job whatever they are.

Correct John. Stripes for an invasion that never happened.... Operation Starkey - a Deception Raid of 355 Vessels