Good work so far!
**** DONE: GB-62 1/72 Spitfire Mk 21 Contraprop - Spitfires
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Looks good.
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PlasticHero
Senior Airman
I now have the "extras" part of the build done. This is a US pilot driving a RAF colleague out to his aircraft and they have just exited the Landrover. There would also be a truck nearby with the crew and equipment needed to start it.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Nice one Alan. 
fubar57
General
Neato
A4K
Brigadier General
Good stuff Alan
Nice work so far!
Nice work.
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PlasticHero
Senior Airman
Getting ready to close up the cockpit. The detail is good but lags behind Airfix and Tamiya (that have oxygen tanks for the cockpit) and Eduard (that IMHO) has the best kit detail with many more sub parts to make up the seat, side walls, and instrument panel.
I want to get better at the using the Tamiya Panel Line Accent. It doesn't "collect at the corners" but acts like a shade. Even with a clear coat, it spreads out across the painted surface. I think I'll see if LHS has spray cans of lacquer or varnish. Speaking of which, the owner has announced that he will be retiring at the end of the summer. BUT, the shop is being sold to a local owner so it should be there for the rest of my modeling career.
Just started looking at wheel wells and landing gear; the instructions have medium sea gray for wells and inside main gear doors but aluminum for inside outer mains and tail doors. Any thoughts on that? The overall color is Aluminum paint; not bare metal or High Speed Silver.
I want to get better at the using the Tamiya Panel Line Accent. It doesn't "collect at the corners" but acts like a shade. Even with a clear coat, it spreads out across the painted surface. I think I'll see if LHS has spray cans of lacquer or varnish. Speaking of which, the owner has announced that he will be retiring at the end of the summer. BUT, the shop is being sold to a local owner so it should be there for the rest of my modeling career.
Just started looking at wheel wells and landing gear; the instructions have medium sea gray for wells and inside main gear doors but aluminum for inside outer mains and tail doors. Any thoughts on that? The overall color is Aluminum paint; not bare metal or High Speed Silver.
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Wheel wells and inner doors generally are the underside colour but I don't remember which scheme you are doing any more.
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PlasticHero
Senior Airman
LA232 is overall silver paint. After looking at some pictures last night., I realized that the outer wheel covers were a new addition along with the retractable tail wheel. I see that the new parts may have been fabricated after the basic airframe was built and could be finished differently. I have often dreamed of a perfect world where the model maker would post the source material for the schemes that are included in kits. I vacillate between believing the research dept pours over dusty documents and photos or some marketing vp points at a picture and says "I like that." Special Hobby has a reason to suggest it is gray on the inner door and silver on the outer. I found this 1/48 Spitfire Mk 21 build showing a lot of detail.
www.vexillummilitaris.co.uk
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UPDATE
Here are 2 Spitfire Mk 24 Wheel Wells that seem to show the outer door with the same interior color as the well itself. Are these original? They are current photos so almost certainly restored. There was also a photobucket (dead link
) to a Mk 21. In this case, the more you know, the less sure you are. I'm leaving the original color alone and making my outer door silver paint on both sides.
Vexillum Militaris - Supermarine Spitfire F Mk 21 – Build
Supermarine Spitfire Type 356, Spitfire F Mk 21 of 600 Squadron (County of London) RAuxAF, Biggin Hill, 1947. 100% Airfix, almost.
www.vexillummilitaris.co.uk
UPDATE
Here are 2 Spitfire Mk 24 Wheel Wells that seem to show the outer door with the same interior color as the well itself. Are these original? They are current photos so almost certainly restored. There was also a photobucket (dead link
) to a Mk 21. In this case, the more you know, the less sure you are. I'm leaving the original color alone and making my outer door silver paint on both sides.
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Crimea_River
Marshal
That's quite a detailed reference build. Nice find.
Lovely work so far!
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PlasticHero
Senior Airman
Here's the end of my lovely work. Despite carefully clamping fitting the two frames for the cockpit in place; by the time I had the floor piece connecting them and gluing the fuselage together, they were misaligned. Whatever it looks like, the fit of the parts is excellent. Any seams and gaps is on me.
It isn't "really" visible from the top but I show em like I buildem.
It isn't "really" visible from the top but I show em like I buildem.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Not too bad. I have found things to slip in my clamps before and that could be what happened.
A4K
Brigadier General
Are you able to prise them back square? I sometimes have to readjust things, with a strong pair of tweezers.
