Spitfire Mk.II (Revell 1/32)

[Guest]

Steven,
A very good build and well presented - do not worry about the dog colours, they come in all colours and sizes.
Mike.

[boatman]

fantastic build Steven
chris

[adt70hk]

Loving what you've done so far Steven.

ATB

Andrew

[scottie3158]

Steven,
A cracking result so far.

[Steven000]

Thanks guys! :thumb2: :thumb2::thumb2:

Well I was home alone today... :smiling6: so I was able to finish the project!

First I painted the base with the airbrush. I used masking-tape to spray some sort of airfield-concrete-panel-things...


I added a white line to break-up the squares and to give the impression we're on ... an airfield!
The border was masked and sprayed with burned umber (same as the bf109 dio).


To make the base a bit more 'alive' I added a small area of grass.
As most people I once converted an Electric-fly-killer-racket to a static-grass-applicator - however,
I barely used it as it didn't work well on larger distances (when I tried making static pine trees).

The thing is powered with a 5V adapter instead of the original 3V batteries.
This is actually the first time I had success with it :smiling6: - I used 6mm grass and thinned wood-glue with a bit of green/brown paint in it...



Then I took off the canopy masking-tape...


I glued the aerial-antenna in place - And everything was put happily together! (not glued yet for transport)

Some pictures of the finished build!










So that's pretty much it!
The Revell-kit itself had a few fitting issues, but in general it's a very nice kit for it's (current) price.
The latter part (painting and finishing) was really fun, I'm happy to see this shelve-queen got finally finished :thumb2:

Many thanks for all the input and comments!
Kind regards,
Steven

[scottie3158]

Steven,
Superb build and a great base to show it off.

[Guest]

Very fine indeed.

[Lee Drennen]

Brilliant craftsmanship

[yak face]

Beautiful job steven , superbly built , cheers tony

[Neil Merryweather]

That's a very classy build, great choice of base as well (although it really should be all grass......) but it does look good.

[Allen Dewire]

As a non-wing thingy person, I have to say this is really a superb build all around. Great base, great plane and the pilot and his dog just top it off perfectly!!! Top work Sir!!!

[Bortig the Viking]

Thanks Si!
I made a light-box myself with MDF and a 2 fluorescent light tubes :
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That box is used to light my desk, it gives a good (cold) overall lighting with soft shadows.
In addition to that I use a (warm) white LED (320lm) in that Ikea lamp thing.
It's nothing specially set up for photographing but it works for me :thumb2:
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I use my old Canon 1100D camera that I bought in early 2011, it came with a standard 18-55mm lens.
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Cheers ; )
Steven

Looks good, must try to do some figures, scares me also noticed in one picture you have what looks like sound deadening foam, have tried to get some, only need a small piece, can I ask where do you get it only found sites selling large quantities.

[Guest]

Exactly that , all the red bits were slightly off register but with things like the codes it didn't make a difference , sometimes you would see it on the fin flash too.

That is what I was referring to, also in my original post about this

[Steven000]

also noticed in one picture you have what looks like sound deadening foam, have tried to get some, only need a small piece, can I ask where do you get it only found sites selling large quantities.

Hi Mark,
Yes you got it right, that's indeed a piece of acoustic-foam that I use sometimes to get a different background then the wall behind my desk :smiling5:.
I lay it down in a curve on it's backside. It's still on my desk so the lighting is the same.

It's sold here in all local home-depots, usually packed with only two pieces in one bag, 100x50cm.

Other than that you can get very large colored paper in your local art-store, those are ideal backgrounds.


Cheers, Steven

[Steven000]

I'd like to thank everyone for the friendly comments and feedback! :thumb2::thumb2::thumb2:
Thanks and kind regards!