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1:48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk.Vb
Topic Started: Mar 6 2011, 09:04 PM (570 Views)
Viper Vixen
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My entery for the GB. Will be done as BL479 SZ 'O' X

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Mark M
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mish is this for our GB or one else where?
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Viper Vixen
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Elsewhere but I thought I'd share the build with you all
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Mark M
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i thought so but was just checking! after your last spit in the BOB Gb on BM i cant wait for this one
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Viper Vixen
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Nothing special on this one Mark, cross kitting the wing ends from the Vb Trop as my research has found that this spit had, what looks like an in field conversion to clipped wing, thus has no nav lights on the wing tips. Tamiya made a small bobo :)
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Got started this evening

A little bit of assembly and interior green applied.

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Even went to the trouble of drilling out the lightening holes in the frame and making a slot for the seatbelts in the head armour

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More tomorrow...
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Mark M
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:pop
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Daz Greenwood
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The voices told me to do it!
Looking good Mish.

I might even build a Spitfire.
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Go for it Daz

Right with the Mig out of the way I can get on with the Spit. This mornings work:

Fuselage halves done

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IP done

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Fuselage halves together

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and the wings assembled

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Sorry the seat isn't ready for you to see yet ;)

More later...

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Right this afternoons efforts:

Now you can have a look at the seat :)

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and the cockpit in the fuselage and the wings on

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U/C brake-lines in

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More soon...
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Mark M
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that seat look FAB mish
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Blue_2
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Builder of aircraft, any scale from 1:1 to 1:144!
That is looking VERY nice! :)
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Quite a lot of progress today

First job was to prime

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Ten put the underside grey on

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Then the topside grey

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Next up green

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Then I added the yellow id strips

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and started applying the decals

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More tomorrow...



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Blue_2
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Builder of aircraft, any scale from 1:1 to 1:144!
That looks like a good day's work! :cool
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Disaster

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I think the decal setting solution pooled and caused the damage.

So I took the decals off, sanded back the damaged areas and resprayed.

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More tomorrow...


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