**** DONE: Spitfire LF IX MK392 JE-J flown by Wg Cdr 'Johnnie' Johnson, June 1944

[rochie]

cheers fella's

 

[Wurger]

Hard work...Karl. But looking good.

 

[rochie]

Thank you Wojtek, you are right it has been hard work getting this far, i feel better about it now though !

 

[rochie]

ocean grey is on

 

[bemay]

coming together there rochie

 

[rochie]

coming together there rochie

sure is now all the fit issues are over

 

[Airframes]

Looking good mate.

 

[lesofprimus]

Right on Karl, lookin good...

 

[rochie]

thanks Terry-Dan, by late last night got the all the upper and lower surface painting finished apart from the black stripes, going to start panel line work next.

pics asap

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Wow Karl you could have driven a Trolley Bus through them gaps, nice filling job and looking good mate.

 

[rochie]

thank you very much Vic, will admit i nearly junked it when i saw the fit of the nose area but as i've said i'm happier now its done and glad i carried on !

 

[kgambit]

cheers Terry, the whole fit of the nose area was bloody horrible !!!!!!!!

That's an understatement! Great job on the repairs Karl.

 

[rochie]

cheers mate

 

[ellis995]

PHEW?

I know what it's like on the nose end of this kit.

At least i'm not the only one who has had trouble with this kit. Glad you got it sorted Karl.

looking forward to the pics.

 

[rochie]

cheers Keith, love the siggie pic, nice one

 

[vikingBerserker]

Well done Karl!

 

[rochie]

thanks VB

 

[Crimea_River]

Coming along great Karl!

 

[rochie]

cheers guys

 

[rochie]

stripes are on, i rushed this a bit as i'm short of time due to work at the minute so a feww touch ups are needed, still quite happy how its turning out though !
also need to adjust the width of the "sky" tail band