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That's going to be a winner. I like the weathering you've carried out. Restrained but effective.
I built the Airfix 1/24 in these markings a while ago. Nice work
Good stuff. I remember the thread but never dropped a comment, jerk that I am.
Crawling towards the finish line: I've added some exhaust staining and gun streaking simply by stippling on some Humbrol weathering powders straight from the pot using a stiff brush. It's my first go at the latter, I've been mulling over how pronounced this should be over the last few days; I feel it's one of those things that's often overdone, with long dirty streaks from the machine guns at the leading edge over and under the wings. I spent some time looking at various photos, and while streaking from the shell ejector ports can be significant, not so much for the guns themselves. A Spit would carry enough m/g ammunition for about 15 seconds of firing, so even if EN951 (about a year old when Zumbach flew her) had flown, say, 150 sorties where it had engaged the enemy and fired off all its ammo (an extremely unlikely scenario to be fair) the m/g's would have fired for a total of 37½ minutes. Compare that with the exhaust stacks which would have been chugging out hot fumes every minute the plane was in the air. Even accounting for a difference in composition of the two emissions, I can't see that staining from firing guns would have been anywhere near as pronounced as staining from exhaust emissions, so I've just added some light streaking for effect.
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The end of the gun barrels I've rubbed with powdered pencil graphite (8B) and sealed with Klear to give them a bit of lustre. I've also added the nav light on the spine behind the cockpit; interestingly these appear to have been painted on 303 Squadron Spitfires.
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A crack at oil leaks next…
Thanks for looking in!
Tony