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    Steve's 1/32 Fw 190 A-8 R/2 (Oberleutnant Klaus Bretschneider, JG 300)

    I've not been around much recently, but this GB gives me a very good reason to build this kit, and in a good cause. Hopefully I'll get it done! It will be as the title, though not quite the box art, and from this kit.
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    Steve's 1/72 'D-Day Fighters'

    Four down- just one to go. This a Spitfire IX, operated by No. 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron. I found one picture of this very aircraft, supposedly taken on 11 June '44, which was useful. I did not expect the special markings to obscure the national markings - something expressly forbidden...
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    Steve's 1/72 'D-Day Fighters'

    This 1/72 malarkey might not be good for me old eyes, but you can build an entire airshow line-up and put it on a base a foot square! So far:
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    Steve's 1/72 'D-Day Fighters'

    Three Down -Two to go. I'm calling this one done, though I noticed when I took the photos that I'd forgotten a couple of drops of paint for the navigation lights. So, this is in the markings of George Preddy's P-51, as it would have appeared on and about D-Day. You can see Preddy's aircraft a...
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    Steve's 1/72 'D-Day Fighters'

    I've managed to get some painting done, the invasion stripes and other tactical markings and, of course the blue nose. What a can 'o' worms that blue colour is! In the end I just went with one I had, it's actually a post-war British roundel blue which can't be right, but it does for me. The...
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    Steve's 1/72 'D-Day Fighters'

    I've made some progress on the P-51. It's pretty much built and went together very well. At the moment it has a first coat of primer, though I will probably rub this down with some very fine paper and apply another coat, since most of this will be finished in Alclad, which is very unforgiving of...
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    Steve's 1/72 'D-Day Fighters'

    I've had a look at the P-51 kit and thought it might be worth raising an interesting point. Most of the P-51's upper wing and a substantial area of the lower wing had all the panel joins puttied, smoothed and then this area was painted. Most of the wings' surfaces were finished with an aluminium...
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    Steve's 1/72 'D-Day Fighters'

    TWO DOWN - THREE TO GO: The Fw 190 is now comlplete, and that is the last of the Germans, so the RLM paints are back in the draws. This is the ircraft flown by Oberstleutnant Josef Priller. He must be one of the best known of all the Luftwaffe 'experten', so there is a lot of information...
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    Steve's 1/72 'D-Day Fighters'

    Glad you like it! The Fw 190 is just underway - and this one has a bit of a cockpit. It's not much, but compared to the last one, it's positively opulent and actually has some detail worth painting.
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    Steve's 1/72 'D-Day Fighters'

    ONE DOWN - FOUR TO GO: The little Bf 109 is done! It is a Bf 109 G-6, werknummer 162707, of 11./JG 26, based at the large airfield complex at Villacoubly, France at the time of the invasion. Here's just a half a walkaround. I'm limiting the pictures or there will be dozens of them by the time...
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    Steve's 1/72 'D-Day Fighters'

    And they are: The sharp eyed, or those who have built this kit, might notice that I've gone for a scheme that I feel is more appropriate for a G-6 of this werknummer/period than that in the destructions. I've sprayed it freehand, which is fun at this scale! You can't see it because I've taken...
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    Steve's 1/72 'D-Day Fighters'

    I managed to spray the underside/side colour of RLM76. I'm only posting this because my original intention was to use the MRP paints, which I have generally found to be reasonably accurate and always easy to use - I do like them. Not the RLM 76. It appears to be a compromise between the...
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    Steve's 1/72 'D-Day Fighters'

    I've made a start on the 109, which seems coincidentally to be the most basic of the kits. This is probably less than ten parts! The cockpit is very, very basic, there is nothing in it except a crude representation of the pilot's seat. Nonetheless, the exterior detail and fit are nice enough...
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    Steve's 1/72 'D-Day Fighters'

    Well this arrived sharpish - as usual from John at the Scale Model Shop. Here's the box: So this comprises no less than five 1/72 kits (you read that right, 1/72 - my poor eyes). They come in at well under a tenner each, so not at all dear, and if they are nothing else they are good value...
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    Steve's completed little Hurricane

    Build thread and all sorts of explanations, fun diversions and even some bad photographs can be found here: https://www.scale-models.co.uk/threads/steves-little-hurricane.43715/#post-735045 Here's a few pictures of the finished model. It really is OOB, there are a few things I would otherwise...
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    Steve's little Hurricane

    As luck would have it, I got away at lunchtime today and have managed to get more done. It occured to me that I hadn't shown the 'light blue' underside (controversial!) which in my case is a lightened Azure Blue, then thoroughly mucked up. The port wing, the entire port underside, would have...
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    Steve's little Hurricane

    I've got the basic camouflage on. Unfortunately, that's as far as I can get for a couple of days as the real world and work has intervened...again. I'be left the rudder off because that will either have a decal on each side covering the entire surface, or more likely be sprayed with the...
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    Steve's little Hurricane

    I just had enough time to do the little bit of work necessary before getting the primer on. The reason it looks like it is coated in 'vantablack' rather than just black plastic primer is my complete lack of any photograhic skills!
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    Steve's little Hurricane

    It is indeed - so far so good anyway. The hardest thing so far was getting the seat to stick, it doesn't have the most substantiall attachments. It's in now. The armour in the primer colour was one of those 'interesting' colour calls. Edit: That might not be armour, but a panel closing off...
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    Steve's little Hurricane

    I have been given this to build: It will be returned to it's 'owner' where its life expectancy will be considerably shorter than it would have been in the Battle of France. With that in mind I will build it out of the box, not investing in any pointless extras. I know this was F/O Paul...

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