Afternoon All,
Its been a while since I got stuck into a build and now I have a bit of time I decided to open up my Royal Class Spitfire set. How cool is it!!! Two kits, lots of PE including cockpit details and landing flaps, resin wheels, slipper tanks and beer barrels and more decal options than you can shake a stick at. Oh and a nice beer glass
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This is my first look at the Eduard Spit and I am impressed. I'm sure, like me if you are a fan of Spitfires you have read all the reviews of this kit, good and bad but I really do think it is a wonderful looking kit.
I have left the sprue shots out, most have probably seen them but if anyone wants I can post them.
I start all builds the same way. Remove all parts from sprues, clean up and sand, build any small sub assemblies and then mount for primer.
Whilst doing this I came across one small problem with this kit.
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As you can see, there is flash protruding from the exhaust tips on one side. When removed it leaves a completely solid exhaust tip. Stark contrast to the other side which is very finely rendered.
I thought about drilling the tips but that would be a pain in the a%@$e so I dropped an email to Eduard and they immediately offered to supply me with resin replacements
. Well done Eduard.
As is traditional, office first.
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There's plenty of detail in the plastic kit on its own and there is PE instrument panel and harness in the Royal Class kit. I added a couple of hoses and wires. Painted in Tamiya cockpit green and weathered and chipped a bit.
All buttoned up with just the tiniest smear of filler. Then onto the painting. Now I've never painted invasion stripes before so I did it the way that made sense to me. I roughly airbrushed the wings and rear of the fuselage white, then I worked out that the stripes should be about 8mm wide so I marked up and masked for the black stripes. These are Tamiya nato black as I thought that flat black would be too stark a contrast. Then the invasion stripes were masked off completely apart from the small rectangles in the middle fuselage stripe, painted with grey first then masked with blu-tac for the green.
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It was quite scary unmasking it all but it didn't look too bad. I still have some touching up to do and a panel of sky colour on the rearmost fuselage stripe to paint but I'm on a roll at the moment and I have a few days off this week so should be at the decal stage pretty soon.....
Thanks for looking
Jason
Its been a while since I got stuck into a build and now I have a bit of time I decided to open up my Royal Class Spitfire set. How cool is it!!! Two kits, lots of PE including cockpit details and landing flaps, resin wheels, slipper tanks and beer barrels and more decal options than you can shake a stick at. Oh and a nice beer glass
.This is my first look at the Eduard Spit and I am impressed. I'm sure, like me if you are a fan of Spitfires you have read all the reviews of this kit, good and bad but I really do think it is a wonderful looking kit.
I have left the sprue shots out, most have probably seen them but if anyone wants I can post them.
I start all builds the same way. Remove all parts from sprues, clean up and sand, build any small sub assemblies and then mount for primer.
Whilst doing this I came across one small problem with this kit.
[ATTACH]89395.IPB[/ATTACH]
As you can see, there is flash protruding from the exhaust tips on one side. When removed it leaves a completely solid exhaust tip. Stark contrast to the other side which is very finely rendered.
I thought about drilling the tips but that would be a pain in the a%@$e so I dropped an email to Eduard and they immediately offered to supply me with resin replacements
. Well done Eduard.As is traditional, office first.
[ATTACH]89396.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]89397.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]89398.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]89399.IPB[/ATTACH]
There's plenty of detail in the plastic kit on its own and there is PE instrument panel and harness in the Royal Class kit. I added a couple of hoses and wires. Painted in Tamiya cockpit green and weathered and chipped a bit.
All buttoned up with just the tiniest smear of filler. Then onto the painting. Now I've never painted invasion stripes before so I did it the way that made sense to me. I roughly airbrushed the wings and rear of the fuselage white, then I worked out that the stripes should be about 8mm wide so I marked up and masked for the black stripes. These are Tamiya nato black as I thought that flat black would be too stark a contrast. Then the invasion stripes were masked off completely apart from the small rectangles in the middle fuselage stripe, painted with grey first then masked with blu-tac for the green.
[ATTACH]89400.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]89401.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]89402.IPB[/ATTACH]
It was quite scary unmasking it all but it didn't look too bad. I still have some touching up to do and a panel of sky colour on the rearmost fuselage stripe to paint but I'm on a roll at the moment and I have a few days off this week so should be at the decal stage pretty soon.....
Thanks for looking
Jason
ops:, but the quality was magnificent!!
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