Looking very nice.
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Great work Andrew.SteveComment
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Afternoon chaps!!
I have settled on an approach for the stripe issue and have started to paint them on.
I thought it would be a good idea to try doing it given the kit was virtually free. I'm also going to get set of AM decals too, as the decals are for a XVIe, and this is XVIc....and the letters and roundels are all-in-one with the stripes.....plus I figured a combination of decal and painted stripes would look odd too....but more about AM decals later.
One of the stripes is slightly off but as it's on the underside, they won't be seen.
Pics on the stripe process below.....I've never done it before, so it took a while to work out what process best to use....plus the radiators were just in the wrong place, making the masking a bit tricky.
ATB
Andrew
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Working out the spacing......I will do it differently next time
Ready for the white base coat......
White down....you can see how I've left space for of the black to go down without wiping out too much of the detail (hopefully)
Black down
And the big reveal.....all in all, I'm reasonably happy, aside from the wonky stripe
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They don't look wonky to me Andrew, very nice workComment
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Looks very good indeed, nice paintwork Andrew, have fun
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Stripes look good to me too. Nice light touch with the airbrush ?Comment
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Dont worry about the stripes not being straight. I believe they were hand painted on in the war and were often wonky. Looks more realisticSteveComment
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Nowt wrong with those stripes....as steve said....applied by brush and not always neat....in fact ive got a pic somewhere that it looks like they blindfolded the poor erk before they put a brush in his hand!
This is going together nicelyPer Ardua
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Andrew,
I was going to say I will follow along, but your nearly finished. Nice job on the stripes.Comment
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Thanks chaps good to have you on board and you're right about the stripes. The application of stripes in the pre D-Day rush was haphazard at best - understandably given that they only had a few days at most to apply them. I have though read in a few places, that in time, they came to be applied by the maintenance units and so their application was somewhat neater.
In this case there are so many things wrong with this kit both in terms of shape and markings, that I though I might as well experiment with using the stripe masks too, as I'd never used them before....the proverbial 'in for a penny and in for a pound'.
Scottie - Not sure what's going on to be honest with this build....I'm on to finish this record time for me....I think having a week off at the end of August got me well ahead of the game!
Thanks again chaps!
ATB
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Looking great Andrew.I was good at St Ives show and only bought 2 kits and some Hataka acrylics to try.Great Spitfire.
Pip pip.
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