1/48 Airfix Spitfire Mk.Vb

[Guest]

Yep! Looking very good.

The paintwork is excellent, I love it

[Guest]

Those seatbelts look awesome, much better than my recent homemade attempt!

Looking forward to seeing more Jason

[Guest]

Yep, eduard seatbelts always trump other PE ones...

John

[Guest]

Office looks great Jason!

[Wendall]

Thanks Fellas,

Pleased you like it! Airfix have done such a fantastic job on it, it would be difficult to make it look bad. Worth the addition of the PE belt though just to finish it off.

Jason

[Guest]

Very very good! Love this cockpit.

Francedci

[monica]

look great ,s far keep up the good work,

[flyjoe180]

Agree, nice work on the cockpit Jason.

[Wendall]

Just a quick update for you. I reckon its taken about 3 hours over the course of the week to get to this stage.

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I think I made hard work of the wing root. I don't know how but it was perfect when I dry fitted it but somehow I ended up with a small step!!!! More care to be taken next time me thinks.

The only issue I have found with the kit itself is the armoured fuel tank cover. It has been referenced in the Airfix magazine review and I took the authors advice and left the cockpit tub loose inside the fuselage to allow for adjustment but this part still required some serious thinning with the Dremel to get an acceptable fit.

The wing strengthening strakes were simple to remove with a new chisel shaped blade and some light sanding being careful not to damage the other detail on the wings.

A little bit of filler here and there and few panel lines re-scribed and all in all fairly straight forward assembly job.

Right! Time to fire up the airbrush!

Thanks for looking

Jason

[Guest]

Looking good Jason.

One of the Airfix new tooling jobs. And they are very nice to work with from my recent experience.

Laurie

[Guest]

Looks very good Jason. I know what you mean about dry fitting vs glue sticking! For some strange reason, parts often misbehave once they have a drop of cement on them!

[papa 695]

Great work Jason the cockpit looks great and the Eduard seat belts really set it off

[Wendall]

Thanks for the comments chaps. You gotta love acrylic paint on a warm day, it dries so fast. Managed to have my first proper crack at pre shading.

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That is actually Sky but I couldn't get the lighting right. It looks more effective in the flesh and once its got a wash in the panel lines I think I'll be happy with it. Topside to do next.

Thanks for looking

Jason

[Ian M]

I like the look of the preshade, you made a good job of that.

Ian M

[tr1ckey66]

Hi Jason

What an intro to aircraft builds - Superb work! Can't say I'm really surprised given the work you do on the automotive stuff.

Great work on the Spit - beautiful cockpit, good pre shade skills - I look forward to seeing this complete.

BTW, seeing as you've made the leap over to winged stuff I thought I'd restore balance to the model building universe and attempt 2 bike builds next.

All the best mate

Paul