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

[Berny5664]

Username: Berny5664
Name: Bernardo
Category: Intermediate
Scale: 1/48
Manufacturer/Model : Airfix Spitfire Mk. VB
Extra: Tauromodel decals

And here I am.
By dint of admiring the construction of all these Spitfires, I also decided to try my hand at building a model.

I have a lot of Spitfire kits, but I want to participate with what was the first one I bought in 1/48 scale...at the time I could only afford the 72

Surely now there are better models of Spitfire Mk. VB than the 48 but then he buys it because with the Vokes sand filter I could make one with the Italian insignia. And that's what I'm going to try to do now.
There will be work to do but I hope to do something good

That's the kit and the extra decals.

Thanks for watching

 

[Wurger]

 

[Berny5664]

As a help I will use the nice volume dedicated to the Italian Spitfires

 

[Wurger]

Berny ... in English please.

 

[rochie]

nice one, looking forward to seeing this one done !

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice. A different scheme is good to see.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

I like it and as said, a good and different subject.

 

[Airframes]

Good choice, and not a bad kit.
By today's standards, the kit might be slightly less detailed and refined, compared to current Spitfire kits, but considering it was first released around 1980, it still holds up quite well.
I've built a few of these kits, as the Mk.V, and also converted to Mk.I and Mk.II, and it was also the very first Spitfire kit, in any scale, to faithfully replicate the "gull wing" underside wing planform.
Looking forward to seeing the build progress.

 

[Berny5664]

In addition to the volume dedicated to the Italian Spitfires, I'm researching the real aircraft, with the volume dedicated to the Airframe & Miniature spitfire.

Thanks to this I discovered that the kit is oversized by about 0.5 cm

and so I decided to re-engrave it and shorten them by as much as necessary.

 

[fubar57]

Yikes. Interesting start

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Mmmm! Was thinking that myself. Not sure if I would want to go to that extent.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Berny5664]

In fact, I didn't want to do this job either, but when I saw that it was oversized I thought either I'll throw it away or I'll modify it.

I also thought of using the second fuselage of this Mk 1 of the Eduard,
but doing an EduAirfix seemed too much to me.

So I decided to try to keep as many pieces of this Airfix as possible... Even if in the end I'll have to integrate something.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Vic Balshaw]

In fact, I didn't want to do this job either, but when I saw that it was oversized I thought either I'll throw it away or I'll modify it.

I also thought of using the second fuselage of this Mk 1 of the Eduard,
but doing an EduAirfix seemed too much to me.

So I decided to try to keep as many pieces of this Airfix as possible... Even if in the end I'll have to integrate something.

I admire your pluck Bernardo and look forward to following your progress in this build.

 

[Crimea_River]

Pluck indeed. I hope the drawing are correct!

 

[Airframes]

Me too !
When I've checked the Airfix fuselage against other kits (Mk.1, Mk.V and Mk.IX), it's been more or less the same around the tail area.

 

[Berny5664]

The drawings are correct, it is the model that is longer. The error is where I marked with the orange arrow

The propeller spinner is also larger and I will have to reduce the diameter or replace it

 

[Berny5664]

Vic and Crimea it's not pluck mine, it's just healthy recklessness

 

[Ralph Haus]

Vic and Crimea it's not pluck mine, it's just healthy recklessness

Whatever it is, I admire your quest for accuracy. And I'm sure bringing tears to many of our accuracy Nazis. For me, if the detail is attached and kind of straight, good enough. Looking forward to the build progress postings.