Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I PR Type B, KP Models 1/72, now Eduard 1/48!

[2996 Victor]

A bit more filling and sanding of the wings has been going on. And also, some additional structure detai:

Madness.....

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Not madness at all Mark and thanks for posting those interesting links.

 

[2996 Victor]

Small thought.

We in this hobby want the finest, most detailed models possible.

Here am I, filling in all that lovely detail just because I want something a bit out of the ordinary.

Lol

Cheers,
Mark

 

[36feet10inches]

What I especially like in the above picture is the photobombing by the Dominie/Dragon Rapide... if there's any aircraft even nearly able to rival the Spit for elegance...

 

[2996 Victor]

Not madness at all Mark and thanks for posting those interesting links.

Thanks! And glad those links were of interest - it never ceases to astound me what folks do to preserve our history for the future.

Cheers,
Mark

 

[2996 Victor]

What I especially in the above picture is the photobombing by the Dominie/Dragon Rapide... if there's any aircraft even nearly able to rival the Spit for elegance...

That's brilliant, Tony! I love the idea of the Dragon photo-bombing

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks! And glad those links were of interest - it never ceases to astound me what folks do to preserve our history for the future.

Cheers,
Mark

Well I can relate. I work on a Mosquito restoration every Saturday.

 

[36feet10inches]

Well I can relate. I work on a Mosquito restoration every Saturday.

Where at?

 

[Crimea_River]

Where at?

Bomber Command Museum of Canada 40 minute hwy drive south of me. Here's a thread but I should update it again. Mosquito RS700 Restoration

 

[36feet10inches]

Madness.....

Yeah, but we’ll know it’s there!

 

[2996 Victor]

Bomber Command Museum of Canada 40 minute hwy drive south of me. Here's a thread but I should update it again. Mosquito RS700 Restoration

Fabulous! What an incredible project - hat's off to you and your fellow restorers!

All the best,
Mark

 

[2996 Victor]

I've sprayed some Tamiya rattle can paint as a primer to seal in the bits I've added:


Ventura Classic Warbirds #10 states on page 5, "all the panel gaps (were) filled with plaster, painted over, then polished." It seems logical that if you're going to the trouble of so treating the wings, then the fuselage should be equally treated, and looking at the photos I linked on the Mervyn Wheatley Facebook page, I would say that's true. Obviously, some panels need to remain detachable, such as those on the engine cowling and obviously the pilot's door, but filling the fuselage is, I think, born out in the photo of P9331 at Reims where there is a pale line where the wing root fairing meets the fuselage side - plaster of paris? As such, I've decided to fill the fuselage panel lines as well, excepting the ones scrawled over in red pen:

I suspect the model will look rather toy-like in the end, so I'm considering ways to "highlight" the smoothed-over panel joints.

As that's not much to report, here's a photo of Arthur taking up most of my bench:


TTFN!

 

[Wurger]

At least the bench may get dusted off.

 

[2996 Victor]

At least the bench may get dusted off.

True, but the downside is that he continuously sheds loads of fluff

 

[Wurger]

Yeah ...

 

[Crimea_River]

Models and cats are usually not a good combination, at least from the model's standpoint.

 

[36feet10inches]

Models and cats are usually not a good combination, at least from the model's standpoint.

Yeah, but their whiskers make great whip antennae...

 

[Crimea_River]

Yeah, if you want more than one!

 

[Snautzer01]

Yeah, but their whiskers make great whip antennae...

Must add it to