ICM Spitfire beer delivery

[spanner570]

Excellent build so far, mucker....

After your awful attempt at a funny 'Beery' intro I trust you have this.....




Sorry, can't afford to switch on the iron!

Cheers from over the 'Great Divide'

[Jim R]

Good job sorting the wings. Glad you were able to wrestle the warped fuselage into place.

[yak face]

After sorting the wings the lower nose section was next . This wasnt a great fit ( surprise !) , needing a clamp to hold the fuselage sides together until the glue set .
Before the top section of the engine cowling is fitted the problem of the exhausts needed to be solved . Because I left out the engine theres nothing to fit them to so plastic card was glued behind the holes allowing me to add them later on . With this done the top cowling was fitted , along with the tailplanes and wingtips , the whole airframe getting a good fettling with a few areas needing some swipes with acrylic putty. Once its had a coat of primer no doubt there will be more to sort but at least its starting to look like a spitfire now .

[yak face]

The underside of the nose wasnt a stellar fit so it was sanded a bit and given a smear of acrylic putty , the fastener details being reinstated with a micro drill bit .After a trial fit of the prop showed that the top cowling was a fraction short , I cut a piece of plastic card and glued it to the front edge. Once set this was sanded to shape and the lost fastener detail again reinstated. The ailerons , rudder and cannons were next and after masking up , the front screen and rear canopy section were fitted with non fogging CA .
The canopy frames have been painted interior grey green and tomorrow I can mask up the cockpit opening , , get some primer on and see if anything needs sorting .

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Nice work Tony.

[flyjoe180]

Good fix on that cowling Tony.

[Steven000]

Nice work Tony, I also experienced a lot of issues with the icm spitfire. You're doing great, Have fun, cheers

[yak face]

Cheers steven , yes its not a shake n bake is it !! Credit to ICM for adding all the details like engine and gun bays but if you dont want to have everything on show then its a battle to get it all to fit cheers tony

[yak face]

Now in primer . I decided to use white primer as it will make it easier to do the full invasion stripes and the yellow leading edge of the wing .

[yak face]

Now masked up for the stripes , the sky band on the fuselage and yellow on leading edges of wings have slso been applied . These will be masked up before the black stripes are sprayed . After that they will be masked up too then the camo can start to go on , what a faff ! I dont like doing invasion stripes!

[stillp]

I dont like doing invasion stripes!

Same here, especially as I usually forget to spray the area white first so I have to mask for the white stripes, then for the black... 😕
Looks good Tony.
Pete

[scottie3158]

Tony,
Looking very nice mate.

[Richard48]

Heres one Ive had in the stash a while and finally plucked up the courage ( beer , geddit ? Ok I’ll get me coat ) to start it. Its the 1/48 Spitfire mk IX from ICM with the addition of some wooden beer barrels for this boxing .Incredibly several Spitfires and later Typhoons were adapted to carry beer to the troops in France just after D Day. Look it up ,its a brilliant story of ingenuity , it caught my attention - spitfire , beer , not surprising really !- so I had to have it. Its a nice looking kit BUT by all accounts can be a pig to get together. Looking at the complete Merlin engine and very fragile, delicate nature of the nose area once the panels have been cut off , I,m going to build it without the engine if I can. It still looks like it will be tricky as the fuselage halves are a little warped and dont feature any locating pegs . That said the cockpit looks very nicely done , just some belts to add so thats where im going to start ( note ,instructions stages 1- 25 skipped straight over ! ) .
Ive a feeling this is going to put up a fight but deep breath , here we go.

Hehe i got the courage joke fella hehe.Interesting model but you wouldnt want a barrel landing on ya bonce.
Curse you Red Barrel(Groan i will get my coat)
Richard

[yak face]

After a slight pause ( holiday) its back to the spitfire . The yellow leading edges and the sky band on the rear fuselage have been masked off and the black stripes sprayed . Next is masking off the black and then on with the camo colours , starting with the medium sea grey undersides . BTW , during handling and masking after priming I noted a fair bit of scratching and chipping on the white AK interactive primer . I got this stuff because I wanted a hardwearing , white with good covering power - so far it doesn't seem to be fulfilling either of those two criteria ! I didn't thin it , as instructed , and left it for well over 24 hours to cure before doing anything with it , but its not really filling me with confidence. I hope that when I unmask after all the paintings done I’m not faced with peeling back to bare plastic !

[flyjoe180]

Looks very colourful at the moment Tony!

[HAWKERHUNTER]

I hope that when I unmask after all the paintings done I’m not faced with peeling back to bare plastic !

Fingers crossed Tony.