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My Spitfire factory
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36feet10inches
Staff Sergeant
Fight! Fight! Fight! 
djos
Airman 1st Class
Hi
very nice models, and very interesting versions.
Great, you are definitely big fan of Spitfires
I have one question. I want to make Seafire IIb same as you did. But i can not buy any model of Seafire in Serbia, so i must do it with homemade approach. Can you advice me how to do it, which model should i use, and what need to be changed at standard model. I have (also) big stock of many different versions of Spitfire, but not even one from Seafire series. As i mentioned before, i think that you done good job with your Seafire so definitely you are right person to get advice from.
Thanks a lot
Best regards
very nice models, and very interesting versions.
Great, you are definitely big fan of Spitfires
I have one question. I want to make Seafire IIb same as you did. But i can not buy any model of Seafire in Serbia, so i must do it with homemade approach. Can you advice me how to do it, which model should i use, and what need to be changed at standard model. I have (also) big stock of many different versions of Spitfire, but not even one from Seafire series. As i mentioned before, i think that you done good job with your Seafire so definitely you are right person to get advice from
.Thanks a lot
Best regards
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36feet10inches
Staff Sergeant
Hi
very nice models, and very interesting versions.
Great, you are definitely big fan of Spitfires
I have one question. I want to make Seafire IIb same as you did. But i can not buy any model of Seafire in Serbia, so i must do it with homemade approach. Can you advice me how to do it, which model should i use, and what need to be changed at standard model. I have (also) big stock of many different versions of Spitfire, but not even one from Seafire series. As i mentioned before, i think that you done good job with your Seafire so definitely you are right person to get advice from
Thanks a lot
Best regards
Actually if you can get the Airfix Spitfire Vc kit it includes all the components necessary to make the Seafire (including the grappling hook), there's really nothing expert about my conversion
, however the instructions/decals supplied with the kit are not for the Seafire, they're for the Spitfire.To do the Seafire you will need the instructions and decals that come with this year's Airfix Club limited edition members kit (Fleet Air Arm set). I still have the instructions left over from when I did mine, as well as a spare set of decals in two options (assuming you're happy to do one of those two), if you want them PM me your address and I'll happily post them to you.
Have a look here at how I built the Seafire (I noticed the other day that I forgot to stick the air intake on!! I'll need to add it)
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/st...anking-xix-seafire-side-side-build-20008.html
Cheers
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36feet10inches
Staff Sergeant
Another one wrapped up... this was originally going to have a camo scheme but I took a left turn halfway and sprayed it silver. I learned from this that metal finishes are very unforgiving and if I'm going to do them the model has to be seamless... in this case I've made a bit of a hash of the wing roots. Oh well.
This, apparently, is a fairly well known Spit, served at the Central Gunnery School in 1946 at RAF Catfoss just north of Hull. Crashed at Skipsea in January 1949.
Heller kit, Lifelike Decals sheet 72-007.
This, apparently, is a fairly well known Spit, served at the Central Gunnery School in 1946 at RAF Catfoss just north of Hull. Crashed at Skipsea in January 1949.
Heller kit, Lifelike Decals sheet 72-007.
Heinz
Captain
Looks awesome CK!
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Nice one!
A4K
Brigadier General
Great work Tony!
I think the original issue of the Heller LF.XVI came with those markings you ordered, since changed to those of D-GE 'Winston Churchill'
I think the original issue of the Heller LF.XVI came with those markings you ordered, since changed to those of D-GE 'Winston Churchill'
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36feet10inches
Staff Sergeant
Cheers guys
I don't know how old this particular kit was (box looked a bit retro, picked up on ebay), but it came with both those sets of markings. However the decals were pretty nasty so I went for the aftermarket option. Lifelike do two sheets for 1/72 XVIs, and both this Spit F-JWL RW396 and the "Winston Churchill" kite feature. They're lovely decals to work with.
I don't know how old this particular kit was (box looked a bit retro, picked up on ebay), but it came with both those sets of markings. However the decals were pretty nasty so I went for the aftermarket option. Lifelike do two sheets for 1/72 XVIs, and both this Spit F-JWL RW396 and the "Winston Churchill" kite feature. They're lovely decals to work with.
B-17engineer
Colonel
Nice work!!
djos
Airman 1st Class
It looks very, very, very nice.
NMF looks very smooth.
BR
NMF looks very smooth.
BR
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36feet10inches
Staff Sergeant
And another... I have been mucking about with this one for ages...
Postwar Mk XIV Spit of the Royal Indian Air Force. Kit is the Fujimi "Fighter Recon" kit, decals from Model Alliance. The kit is excellent, a few issues with the decals though - the fin flashes were printed too small (so I ended up painting them on) and the number on the side is too large (and I just lived with it).
I applied a bit of "stencil logic"... I managed to track down a pic of another kite from the same unit and the RIAF markings appear to have been pretty crudely applied, I figured that any stencils would have been overpainted.
Postwar Mk XIV Spit of the Royal Indian Air Force. Kit is the Fujimi "Fighter Recon" kit, decals from Model Alliance. The kit is excellent, a few issues with the decals though - the fin flashes were printed too small (so I ended up painting them on) and the number on the side is too large (and I just lived with it).
I applied a bit of "stencil logic"... I managed to track down a pic of another kite from the same unit and the RIAF markings appear to have been pretty crudely applied, I figured that any stencils would have been overpainted.
djos
Airman 1st Class
I love this unusual look.
Your collection pushing me to leave some projects and start again doing spitfires
One question, i see that you do not use matt coat for those models even some of them looks very matt on pictures. Some special reason?
Again, Great work!
Your collection pushing me to leave some projects and start again doing spitfires
One question, i see that you do not use matt coat for those models even some of them looks very matt on pictures. Some special reason?
Again, Great work!
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36feet10inches
Staff Sergeant
I just finish off with this stuff...
A4K
Brigadier General
Great work Tony! That's a nice scheme!
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36feet10inches
Staff Sergeant
Cheers Evan... where's that XIX, mate? I'm about to start another one, and at this rate it'll be ready before yours!
A4K
Brigadier General
I believe it Tony!
Actually just getting back into it again...got the wings here at work with me, sanding during my breaks.
Actually just getting back into it again...got the wings here at work with me, sanding during my breaks.
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36feet10inches
Staff Sergeant
'Nother one... Czech LF Mk. IXe flown by W/Cdr Jaroslav Hlado of the Czech AF.
This is a KP kit which I picked up from ebay and I gather may be 25 years old (or more). It seems to share the same moulds with the current Kopro VII/VIII kits that I'm also working on right now. Wasn't bad at all, the canopy was a lousy fit but otherwise fun to build. The decals were nasty though (probably their age), I used a sheet from MPD/Miniprint (72544).
Bit of an authenticity issue on this, the serial numbers are wrong, the decals are pretty soft and I wrote off not one but two sets of s/n decals and it started getting expensive so I just slapped on a set in a similar style from a spare Revell sheet. The inspectors I am sure will pick up on it when they visit. Also there's no evidence I can find to suggest this particualr kite carried bombs, but the Czechs flew plenty LF IXe Spits with bombs so I slapped them on for a bit of variety.
Cheers
This is a KP kit which I picked up from ebay and I gather may be 25 years old (or more). It seems to share the same moulds with the current Kopro VII/VIII kits that I'm also working on right now. Wasn't bad at all, the canopy was a lousy fit but otherwise fun to build. The decals were nasty though (probably their age), I used a sheet from MPD/Miniprint (72544).
Bit of an authenticity issue on this, the serial numbers are wrong, the decals are pretty soft and I wrote off not one but two sets of s/n decals and it started getting expensive so I just slapped on a set in a similar style from a spare Revell sheet. The inspectors I am sure will pick up on it when they visit. Also there's no evidence I can find to suggest this particualr kite carried bombs, but the Czechs flew plenty LF IXe Spits with bombs so I slapped them on for a bit of variety.
Cheers
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Nice work.
Nice one!
