36feet10inches
Staff Sergeant
After my attempts to get to grips with the new Airfix PR XIX and Seafire IIb, I have started my collection of 1/72 Spits with this trio:
Got myself a stash of kits and decals to choose from (probably enough to get me through the next 18 months if I'm honest!), also some source/reference material, including the two-volume Modellers' Datafile by Robert Humphreys, which is great if a little hardcore (his mm-by-mm analysis of all the Spit kits out there is extraordinary) so off I go. Who knows, maybe my modelling skills might improve aliong the way
Well, I thought no collection of Spitfires can be considered complete without a classic Battle of Britain Spitfire, so that's where I went next:
It's the Airfix Mk. I kit with Techmod decals. The decals I chose were actually for a Mk. IIb, which I was under the impression was the same as a Mk. I except for the engine, then halfway through I learned that the IIb has a couple of cannon (have yet to learn to do my research
), and with a cannon comes a wing blister. I cobbled both together from spares left over from the Seafire (which is actually the Airfix Vb kit) and they're probably the wrong size, or shape, or both, but anyway they give the impression of a IIb.
The decals look great but I have to say came apart for fun, which was a challenge, also I had some silvering on some of the stencils - normally I put a fairly thick glassy layer of gloss varnish down before putting on decals but this time I just used a coat of Klear which didn't seem to work as well.
Overall, probably no better or worse than anything else I've done, bit schlonky in places, and I am becoming more aware of obvious brush lines (will probably get an airbrush sooner or later). Just can't seem to get that canopy join right. Anyway, it's all experience!
Got myself a stash of kits and decals to choose from (probably enough to get me through the next 18 months if I'm honest!), also some source/reference material, including the two-volume Modellers' Datafile by Robert Humphreys, which is great if a little hardcore (his mm-by-mm analysis of all the Spit kits out there is extraordinary) so off I go. Who knows, maybe my modelling skills might improve aliong the way
Well, I thought no collection of Spitfires can be considered complete without a classic Battle of Britain Spitfire, so that's where I went next:
It's the Airfix Mk. I kit with Techmod decals. The decals I chose were actually for a Mk. IIb, which I was under the impression was the same as a Mk. I except for the engine, then halfway through I learned that the IIb has a couple of cannon (have yet to learn to do my research
), and with a cannon comes a wing blister. I cobbled both together from spares left over from the Seafire (which is actually the Airfix Vb kit) and they're probably the wrong size, or shape, or both, but anyway they give the impression of a IIb.The decals look great but I have to say came apart for fun, which was a challenge, also I had some silvering on some of the stencils - normally I put a fairly thick glassy layer of gloss varnish down before putting on decals but this time I just used a coat of Klear which didn't seem to work as well.
Overall, probably no better or worse than anything else I've done, bit schlonky in places, and I am becoming more aware of obvious brush lines (will probably get an airbrush sooner or later). Just can't seem to get that canopy join right. Anyway, it's all experience!
