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Lucky13 said:
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Here is a photo of the nose art I like the most (not shown on the page with profiles) - the girl with perky tits in transparent shorts, "Miss Fancy Pants", B-25J s/n 43-27769, 445th BS, 321st BG., tail number 19:
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And here's for comparison the process of artistic creation:
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BTW I see the serial on the decal sheet, but not the tail number. Maybe they give the older option with a Roman numeral, which for the 445th BS should be I (the 2 black bars, #29 on the decal sheet maybe?)
P.S. I was tempted to use AI to colorize the nose art for comparison - here it is. IMHO the decal-makers have used the same "trick" to come with blue-ish (transparent) pants.
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This is the only plane that I plan to build for a second time. Back in the late 80's, I was inspired by an article in Scale Aircraft Modelling by Ian Huntley. Notes on the color schemes of the prototype Spitfire K5054. Somewhere in a catalog, possibly in that mag or the Squadron monthly newsletters, there were the decals, canopy, exhaust, prop and possibly wheels by Tasman; I don't remember for sure. Unfortunately, that model got broken and instead of keeping it (like I should have) it was pitched. Recently on ebay up popped the decals and canopy for K5054; the two things that I couldn't reproduce on my own. The prop, wheels and exhaust will be easy to source or scratch so I'm now able to put a real bookend on my Spitfire collection.
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The Airfix will be a major improvement over the Heller that I used before. This brings into focus a conundrum; toooo maannnyy kittssss. I have the kits for the rest of the group builds. I also have about 10 other "must builds" sitting in the stash. I will be unashamedly suggesting future GB's on those in the future. I might also be skipping some of the future GB and doing on the workbench instead. Can we put a OTWB instead of a GB badge in our sigs???
 
PlasticHero said:
This is the only plane that I plan to build for a second time. Back in the late 80's, I was inspired by an article in Scale Aircraft Modelling by Ian Huntley. Notes on the color schemes of the prototype Spitfire K5054. Somewhere in a catalog, possibly in that mag or the Squadron monthly newsletters, there were the decals, canopy, exhaust, prop and possibly wheels by Tasman; I don't remember for sure. Unfortunately, that model got broken and instead of keeping it (like I should have) it was pitched. Recently on ebay up popped the decals and canopy for K5054; the two things that I couldn't reproduce on my own. The prop, wheels and exhaust will be easy to source or scratch so I'm now able to put a real bookend on my Spitfire collection.
View attachment 880063The Airfix will be a major improvement over the Heller that I used before. This brings into focus a conundrum; toooo maannnyy kittssss. I have the kits for the rest of the group builds. I also have about 10 other "must builds" sitting in the stash. I will be unashamedly suggesting future GB's on those in the future. I might also be skipping some of the future GB and doing on the workbench instead. Can we put a OTWB instead of a GB badge in our sigs???
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Remember about the correct shape of the rudder depending on the time ... ;)

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A4K said:
You never cease to amaze me my friend. Never noticed that!

Bernie, cheers for the heads up with the tail. I have a Kiwi Resins conversion set I can use if the -CB tail is wrong too.
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THX Pal. :) :wave:

IIRC there were much more differences in the appearance between the time she got the maiden flight and the time they showed her to the press first time. Later introduced a couple more modifications updating her almost to the Mk.I Additionally it should be kept in mind that the skin panels of the top wing were different than the Mk.I had.

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the pic source: the net.
 
Purchased these in April and said I would review when I was finished

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Finally finished spraying and removed them. Happy to say, they work just as well as Eduard masks. I had one mask lift ever so slightly on a curve and stuck it down before spraying. To be fair, that's happened with Eduard masks as well and I left these on for 13 days. I will definitely be buying these again as they make some masks for kits I have that Eduard doesn't
 
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