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  • PaulTRose
    • Jun 2013
    • 6829
    • Paul
    • Tattooine

    #1

    Pauls Spitfire Mk1, Airfix, 1/72

    just going to park this here ready for when we kick off the GB

    im not much of a plane builder, always struggle with a few aspects of it so i dont really want to go out and spend money on something if i dont have to lol



    looking through the stash i only have 2 things that are suitable, and i want to save the Hurricane for another time so it will be this little fellow..........picked up for a whole quid as it was included with a newspaper.....mail or the mirror as i remember, as long as you bought it from wh smiths........must have been about 2 years ago........kit went in one hand and the paper went in the nearest bin!

    pretty certain ive got a Hataka paint set that covers WW2 RAF schemes

    its a 610 Sqn bird flying out of Biggin Hill in July 1940.....so definatly at the sharp end of the battle

    hopefully cos its 'new tool' it wont give much in the way of problems

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  • stona
    • Jul 2008
    • 9889

    #2
    You'll have to let us know if Airfix put a bl**dy crowbar in the door! They keep doing it, despite the fact that no BoB Spitfire had a crowbar fitted.

    I think I'll have to remove one from my Revell effort too.

    Cheers

    Steve

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    • KarlW
      • Jul 2020
      • 1522

      #3
      Just looking over the sprues in Khadens, looks a dream, really defined panel lines, hopefully it'll fall together for him.

      And no crowbar........
      And I've just noticed the kit wheels for undercarriage down are weighted, I may forgive Airfix for the Hawk yet.......

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      • spanner570
        • May 2009
        • 15594

        #4
        Paul, you will have no problems whatsoever with this kit.
        I built it for last years Starter G.B. It went together like a dream.

        Sqn. Ldr. R. Suppards. (Ret.)

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        • PaulTRose
          • Jun 2013
          • 6829
          • Paul
          • Tattooine

          #5
          obligatory sprue shots....its now getting a waft of primer before assembly starts


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          • PaulTRose
            • Jun 2013
            • 6829
            • Paul
            • Tattooine

            #6
            remembering why i dont build aircraft

            too many seams to fill and sand!


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            • colin m
              Moderator
              • Dec 2008
              • 8927
              • Colin
              • Stafford, UK

              #7
              I think you are doing really well, considering aircraft aren't your thing. At least it still looks like a Spitfire :smiling5:

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              • spanner570
                • May 2009
                • 15594

                #8
                Strange is that, Paul.
                Mine went together like a dream. No filling or 'owt!
                Yours must have been a 'Friday Poets' moulding.

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