Hi everybody,
now that the forum is "malware free", I can start the work-in-progress of the above model.
First I must say that latest Tamiya kit i did was aprox 20 years ago and was this one
impressive, may be, but done exactly "out of the box" without even knowing about weathering etc.
Then, a little later, I changed subjects and I moved on to figurines like these
Exactly two years ago I retired from business and i decided to started again building aircraft models.
I posted already a couple of my builds, so now let's go with the Spit.
First of all my latest projects concerned Italian subject, only available 1:32 scale from Pacific Coast Models.
I like very much PCM kits, but there is no comparison with Tamiya: the value is really worth the money.
For curiosity I decided to start from step 43, the very well detailed Merlin engine.
Here following are some pictures:
Two little comments on the above.
The only addition were some wires and pipes (may be not as much as in the real engine)
The lines across the exhaust stacks could be a minor mould defect, but I checked picture of the real thin and some of them shows that there were welding seems exactly in the same position ...so I need to recheck and decide if I have to clean them or not.
Then I went back to step One, the cockpit and here are the pictures
Here again my is represented by contribution pieces of copper wire of different diameter to simulate copper pipes etc. Black tinted lead wires represent pneumatic hoses on the control stick and the oxygen hose.
The instrument panel is "out of the box"
Some more will be added when port wall will be attached.
I will post more pictures soon.
Any comment and/or suggestion is more then welcome.
Cheers
Alberto