Tamiya 1/48 Spitfire "One Year On"

[Guest]

I have no words, other than the four-lettered variety, so I'll let the pictures do the talking.

Remember - keep the lid on your airbrush pot kids! :loudly-crying:

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Ho hum. Time to start all over again because of course it had to land in a place where it stripped all 5 colours and hairspray :rolling:

[Guest]

Ouch … As we say in Dutch, een ongeluk zit in een klein hoekje (roughly, “accidents lurk in small corners”). I’m confident you’ll be able to fix it, though

[scottie3158]

Hi Andy,
Apologies only just seen this and had a good catch up from the beginning. All was going so well until the end. This will just be a minor set back for a man of your calibre so bring on the repair.

[stillp]

Aagh! Just when I was going to post that I liked the chipping, then I scrolled to the next pic. :disappointed:
Pete

[Guest]

Cheers fellas. I felt like stamping on it earlier, and a year ago I probably would have. I guess I'm learning something from this hobby :smiling5:

After walking away for a while and having a good cry (J/K) I set about fixing it. Because of the hairspray the paint wouldn't feather back locally so I ended up sanding back a fair way!

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Can't make on omelette and all that.

A coat of primer

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And resprayed the Sky

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I've also sprayed the silver on the wing root but will have to leave it there for now. I won't have time to comfortably do the hairspray, two colours, and chip tonight, so better left until tomorrow.

[stillp]

Great recovery Andy.
Pete

[Lee Drennen]

Andy. I’m loving this build all around great build so far I am front row center

[Guest]

Good to have you here Lee, thanks.

[rtfoe]

That's the way to do it Andy...walk away for a bit and comeback and tackle the situation. All it needed was a plan and it's good you went as far back as to sand it down. After this anything's possible. :thumb2:

Cheers,
Richard

[Guest]

Good recovery! When you’re done, nobody’s ever going to be the wiser that this went a bit wrong initially.

[Guest]

Thanks Richard. There's a saying about its not how you fall but how you get back up :smiling3:

Cheers Jakko, nobody except anyone that's seen this topic or the 11,000 members of the Facebook group I've posted in :smiling5:

Maybe I should have kept it under wraps lol.

[SteveH]

Morning Andy

A good day to put it all back to rights

Enjoy the repair, it will feel twice as good when your finished and look just as good too

Have a good day, it looks bright already

Regards

Steve H

[Guest]

Thanks Steve. I'd rather not have had to fix it, but I learned a few things along the way so it's not all bad.

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So after that pause in proceedings, time to crack on :smiling3:

[Tim Marlow]

Repair looks great, meat and drink to a man of your talents

[Guest]

Thanks Tim, but I'm now in another quandary.

Because of my previous problem with decals I've ordered some Montex masks for this to have a go a spraying most of the markings. However, now that I know how fragile the paint is over the hairspray I'm concerned the stencils will lift it! I should have thought further ahead really, but I'm sure I'll fumble through somehow. I've given it two good coats of Mr Color GX100 clear which will hopefully solidify the surface a bit. Fingers crossed, or I'll be repeating this exercise in a few days :smiling5: