I started this 10 months ago and finally got round to finishing it. It needed quite a bit of filler and a lot of work. It's not perfect but I'm happy with it. I built it out of box including the 35 year old decals. The glue on the stencils showed thru the clear carrier film. So I floated the decals off the paper into a bowl of water. Then I cleaned the glue off, put them back on backing paper and applied them to the model with micro set. I used an HGW fabric harness in the cockpit. A bit fiddly to assemble but worth the effort. I will definitely use them again. The build started out as a mk24. But I eventually finished it as a mk22 of no.603 'city of Edinburgh' sqdn from 1950. The two marks were identical apart from an extra fuel tank in the mk24's fuselage.
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Great looking Spitfire Dave, clean, crisp and nicely finished. It was a long time between start and finish, but the wait was well worth it. -
Looks great. Nice to see an uncamouflaged finish too, it makes a nice change.
Cheers
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You have certainly done a beautiful job on this Dave.Comment
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Cracking work there Dave, and as Steve says it's nice to see a different colour scheme on a Spitfire.Comment
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Hi Dave!!
Beautiful Spit...well done, mate!!
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lovely clean build dave ,Comment
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Excellent looking job,well done Dave.Comment
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A top job there Dave! A mark of a skilled modeller is you'd never know the amount of work that went into making such a beauty
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I have to agree Dave, a cracking build and no sign of the issues. Lovely finish mate.
I even managed to find an old picture of your aircraft
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Looks good and nice to see a different finish to normal.Comment
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Nice job, Dave. You overcame the problems on this old kit really well.Comment
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A silver Spitfire - well it just looks - fast.............Nice job.Comment
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Nice job mate, reminds me of a mustang or a P-47 with that NMF finish
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