Airfix 1:48 Seafire FR 47

[colin m]

Thanks Chris,

If you're still thinking of adding this one to the stash, I now feel more qualified to say - do it. It's a good little kit.

So, lots of painting today. Starting with the underside. I've gone back to my trusty Humbrol enamels simply because I already had the right paints ready to go, well sort of.

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The upper surfaces are H123, so here I would have used black for the pre-shading, except I haven't got any enamel black, so no pre-shading. Having said that, pre-shading may not have worked under such a dark colour as extra dark sea grey. Therefore post shading was used which worked very well, but the pic doesn't pick that detail up to well. But get a load of that surface detail, and yes it's an Airfix kit !

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And H90 'sky' for the underside. Hopefully the second underside pic shows the, in my opinion, great surface detail Airfix put into this 1996 kit.

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[colin m]

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Well I've actualy managed to take a pic that shows the result of a bit of post-shading. I didn't got for pre-shading, simply because I had no enamel matt black. But to be honest, I'm not sure pre-shading would have worked under this colour.

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Onwards, loads of Klear. For some reason I find that H90 soaks the Klear up ? Anyway, the decals are behaving themselves really well just as I coming to expect from Airfix. They really are doing well these days.

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Comeing along well.

[MORIARTY1177]

Bloomin marvellous looking bird Colin! I went did it and bought myself one and I must say at first glance the detailing is very good. The panel lines are much finer than on the MK.XII. It'll sit in the stash for a bit but am looking forward to building it, I just hope I do as good a job as you.

Keep up the good work

Chris

[yak face]

Looks absolutely beautiful colin, a fantastic build. The kit looks excellent and youve made a superb job of it , looking forward to the finished pics , cheers tony

[colin m]

Thanks to all for having a look. It's finished and the pics are in the Aircraft section.

Cheers

Colin M..