Academy 1/72 Spitfire Mk XIVc

[Guest]

Here's my 2nd entry in this GB,

a rather nice little kit.

The box

[ATTACH]96276.IPB[/ATTACH]


The sprues

[ATTACH]96277.IPB[/ATTACH]


[ATTACH]96278.IPB[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]96279.IPB[/ATTACH]


Cheers

Patrick

[flyjoe180]

Two on the go, awesome. Looks like a reasonably nice kit Patrick. Much nicer than any Starfix offering

[Guest]

Ha-ha well now I know to avoid Starfix kits!

The panel lines are very nicely engraved on this one - more Hasegawa than Airfix!

[monica]

another good pick,you going to combine the both,?

[Guest]

another good pick,you going to combine the both,?

Yep ! The Spitfire is going to be on the tail of the 109 Moni

[Guest]

Cockpit is done, not particularly well but good enough for me! For a 1/72 kit

the instrument panel is well detailed - shame that my painting isn't up to much!

[ATTACH]96335.IPB[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]96336.IPB[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]96337.IPB[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]96338.IPB[/ATTACH]

[Guest]

Looks pretty good for 1/72, no fear. I guess though that the raised detail of that IP would lend itself to dry-brushing - even it it does seem to be looked at as a bit old-fashioned at times!

[Guest]

Very nice Patrick. It is looking so good I assume you are using acrylics

Laurie

[Guest]

Nice start Patrick!

[Guest]

Alasdair, there's nothing wrong with drybrushing, especially in this scale!

Laurie - yep, those special acrylics that are thinned with white spirit....

Thanks Polux!

[Guest]

Looking good so far, Patrick. I'll keep an eye on this one as I fancy doing a Griffon-engine Spitfire myself some time. Watch out for those Academy decals - I've found them tricky in the past.

[aaron]

How is that office not amazing? You're a maniac mate I can see the dial markings.

It looks great placed in the hull (aeroplane equivalent of hull) will the lid be open?

[Wendall]

Sharp looking cockpit Patrick, some fine detail in there. Don't know how you do it though, giant sausage fingers make Braille scale nearly impossible for me!

[flyjoe180]

Nice work Patrick. As Aaron said your cockpit looks good set up inside in the fuselage.

[aaron]

Nice work Patrick. As Aaron said your cockpit looks good set up inside in the fuselage.

Ah...fuselage, cheers Joe.