**** DONE: Spitfire Mk.VIII "Fargo Express" Lt. L.P. Molland 308th FS - Aces GB.

[Airframes]

And from here in Hippocroccofrog Land !

 

[ozhawk40]

Don't know about that - looks upside down to me!

 

[Wayne Little]

Yeah....it looks off somehow....from down here....

 

[T Bolt]

For all you guys down there hanging by your toes

 

[Wayne Little]

fantastic...appreciate you thinking about us down under......NOW it looks just right!!!

 

[rochie]

looks good Glenn, either way up !

 

[Crimea_River]

 

[brucejscott]

Took me a little bit to get the downside-up thing. Looks real good Glenn.

 

[N4521U]

That last picture solved all my perspective problems, thanks!

 

[woody]

Nice work Glen.

 

[T Bolt]

Recent progress on the Spit.
(You guys from down under will have to rotate the pics yourself)

First two pictures show the lower cowl installed with rough filing done. It still will need some filling and I will somehow have to rebuild the sides of the intake which were molded so thin that they disappeared. The last three show my progress with the filling and sanding. The wing fillet trailing edge had to be totally rebuilt by applying multiple applications of CA and filing it to a sharp edge. The wing tips were not as much trouble as I thought they would be and turned out pretty good. I hope that it all will look as good when I spray on a little paint to look for imperfections.

 

[Crimea_River]

Getting there Glenn. As for the carb intake, I would tackle this by filing it flat then gluing on a piece of thick card with a hole drilled in the center then trimming and filing it to shape. But that's just me.

 

[Wayne Little]

Good work there Glenn good old CA....helps a lot don't it!

 

[rochie]

nice work Glenn

 

[Airframes]

Nicely handled Glenn.

 

[brucejscott]

Looking good Glenn.

 

[Coors9]

Very nice body work. Chip Foose would be proud.

 

[T Bolt]

I decided to try something new I had been thinking about to rebuild the intake, being able to fall back on Andy's idea if it didn't work. What I did is make up the vent walls by inserting very small pieces of paper towel (1/16 by 1/16" or smaller) soaked in CA glue into the inside of the intake. Kind of like CA paper mache. After hitting it with accelerator I trimmed of the excess length with a sprue cutter and built it up a little with more CA, and filed the face flat after more accelerator. I then filed the outside to the proper contour, and cleaned up the inside with a sharp hobby knife.
I wish I had thought to take pictures as I went through this, but I was so wrapped up in trying to make it work I didn't think about it until it was done. It wasn't easy to make those little CA soaked bits of paper go where I wanted them to, let alone stay there until I could hit them with the accelerator. The picture below is after I had wet sanded it with 400-grit sandpaper. It still needs some sanding before the paint.

 

[brucejscott]

Very clever idea! Something like scale fibreglass bodywork. I'm going to file that one away for future use.

 

[rochie]

the improvement is amazing Glenn, well done