Spitfire Mk.II (Revell 1/32)

[Steven000]

Hi guys,

This 1/32 Spitfire is one of my 'shelf-queens', I stared building it a while ago and I would like to finish it as a 'new years' present for my dad (it wil replace that Fury-fish-tank-dio if you remember that one)

Here are some pictures of the build :










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This week I added the canopy-parts with Micro Kristal Clear and masked them with Tamiya tape. I taped it off and used the raised surface detail as a guide for the knife.


Then I degreased the model with alcohol and sprayed a green tone on the canopy (interior color).


Then I sprayed black primer in all cavities and used white primer on the rest of the aircraft. I decided not to do a full preshading at this time...


I made a new wooden block for more project-sticks... Some parts I left off for easier painting.


So that's all for the moment, no time left this week to continue...

Thanks for reading and kind regards,
Steven

[AlanG]

Was just looking at this and the IXc kits. Some people say it's rubbish and others love it. What do you think of it Steven?

Build is coming on great

[Steven000]

Hi Alan, I had a few fitting problems with the flaps and ailerons, but I can't remember any details. Also I had to scrape the inside of the wing to get the assembled cockpit fitted... Further I think the front-glass-armor-canopy-plate should go more smooth over in the fuselage.
The decal for the instrument panel should be cut, in one piece it didn't overlap correct with the plastic panel. :thinking:

I got it for about 20eur (17£) so for that price I think it's a nice kit. :thumb2:

Cheers, Steven

[AlanG]

That was my thinking point Steven. Both kits could be had for a grand total of £35 delivered and it would be nice to have some Allied aircraft in my stash lol

[Steven000]

Hi guys,

Haven't got much bench-time lately but still a small update...

I masked off the propellers and sprayed the spinner and yellow tips.


(Weathering is for later)


The belly was sprayed in 'duck egg green', then masked off with Tamiya tape.


Then I sprayed the brown camo, I made a mistake by not spraying the whole model in brown, I think that would have helped to make the camo-colors matching better. :thinking:


I ordered some 'blu-tack' (grey), but I made the sausages to big so I had the use my blue putty too (more greasy)...


Because I made them too thick I had some problems on the masked lines, even in this scale it looked weird, (looked like 2 edges)
It can work if you spray very straight, but in the future I'll make the masking-sausages smaller to avoid this problem...


So in smaller steps this time I masked some areas off again, trying to fix these lines...


When it looked a bit better I masked and sprayed the black lines on the wings and the duck-egg-green-band (tail).


The black lines came out very sharp, I also lost the antenna-part on the rudder, haven't yet found it back


So that's all for the moment, next is a gloss coat and decals...

Thanks for reading and kind regards :thumb2:
Steven

[Wouter]

You did that yesterday Steven? What a shame, you should have been at the NUTS! weekend at Bastogne :hungry::smiling5:. Just kidding. That masking turned out great, camouflage looks very good!

Cheers

[yak face]

Looking really nice steven , cheers tony

[Steven000]

What a shame, you should have been at the NUTS! weekend at Bastogne :hungry::smiling5:.

Thanks guys,
Well I am almost there Wouter! :tears-of-joy:
We are in the car to Hardigny :smiling5::thumb2:
Cheers, Steven

[Wouter]

Ah, I was in Hardigny yesterday. Have fun there!

Cheers

[Guest]

Bit of alright that Steven!

[Steven000]

Thanks guys :thumb2:

First of all, I found the lost aerial-thing in my trashcan, it was stuck in the masking tape oop:...


This week I sprayed on a gloss coat, I used 'Mig lucky gloss varnish' for the first time, it seemed to work fine but you have to spray it in multiple, very thin layers, so it took a while.


These are the decals that come with the kit.
The red dots are separate decals, which I find a bit inconvenient to work with...


I used micro sol & set,
I always find it fascinating how the decals crumble and in the end adapt to the surface...


The underside has a raised part, so that's trouble to get the decal on there.
I couldn't help myself thinking about the young kid trying to get these on with nothing more than tap-water :sad-face: ...


After several applications of micro sol I was able to get it on very flat.
I got 2 crumbled lines in the decal though but because it's on the underside it won't be visible.


The rivets came through very nice I think!


The fuselage, again I did numerous passes of micro sol



I spend the whole yesterday-evening on the decals but I'm pretty happy how they turned out. :upside:
Next is another gloss coat to seal them in...

That's all, kind regards ; )
Steven

[adt70hk]

Looking good. Well done.

Andrew

[colin m]

Looking very nice. Those decals have settled very nicely. It's nice to see the rivet detail on the fuselage side, not bad detail for the price.

[Fernando N]

Neat paint and decal work Steven, love the sharp lines :thumb2:

[Guest]

I’ve never understood why the red centre dots are often separate on decal sheets these days. It only seems to make them more difficult to apply for the modeller — I suppose there’s a benefit to the manufacturer, but I fail to see what it is.