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Recently, I went for christmas shopping and saw this little airfix combo which includes a spitfire and a Bf 109 for 17 pounds. Firstly, I am going to build the Bf 109 and then the spitfire.
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The sprue has absolutely no flash and the parts seem to be of a very high standard. The panel lines are all inscribed rather than raised.
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The cockpit only consists of 4 parts but that is ok because you won't really see it since this is 1/72
The prop did seem to be quite fragile and I did end up cracking the frontal yellow prop cone so be careful when sanding and removing it from the sprue
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The fuselage fits together very nicely without an major gaps
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To me it seems that pre shading panel lines makes the model look a lot better
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Pre shading works best with lighter colours such as this sky grey/blue
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It is very hard to mask off everything perfectly on such small models.
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I decided to airbrush everything for a nice flat finish
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My model is starting to suffer from rough paint syndrome
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The landing gears are so hard to attach since they are so small and are a very tight fit
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I attached the canopy using some pva glue so it does not fog up the clear parts
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the decals are really nice and are thin enough to fall into the panel lines with a bit of help from micro sol
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Finally finished! Unfortunately, once I applied alclad aqua gloss the paint on the model started looking very rough and had small bumps in it. Otherwise, everything went perfectly.
Hope you enjoyed the build, some more finished photos of it will be posted in the finished aircraft section of this forum tomorrow.
Thanks for reading
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Recently, I went for christmas shopping and saw this little airfix combo which includes a spitfire and a Bf 109 for 17 pounds. Firstly, I am going to build the Bf 109 and then the spitfire.
View attachment 94475
View attachment 94476
The sprue has absolutely no flash and the parts seem to be of a very high standard. The panel lines are all inscribed rather than raised.
View attachment 94489
The cockpit only consists of 4 parts but that is ok because you won't really see it since this is 1/72
The prop did seem to be quite fragile and I did end up cracking the frontal yellow prop cone so be careful when sanding and removing it from the sprue
View attachment 94490
The fuselage fits together very nicely without an major gaps
View attachment 94491
To me it seems that pre shading panel lines makes the model look a lot better
View attachment 94492
Pre shading works best with lighter colours such as this sky grey/blue
View attachment 94498
It is very hard to mask off everything perfectly on such small models.
View attachment 94502
I decided to airbrush everything for a nice flat finish
View attachment 94503
My model is starting to suffer from rough paint syndrome
View attachment 94504
The landing gears are so hard to attach since they are so small and are a very tight fit
View attachment 94505
I attached the canopy using some pva glue so it does not fog up the clear parts
View attachment 94506
the decals are really nice and are thin enough to fall into the panel lines with a bit of help from micro sol
View attachment 94507
Finally finished! Unfortunately, once I applied alclad aqua gloss the paint on the model started looking very rough and had small bumps in it. Otherwise, everything went perfectly.
Hope you enjoyed the build, some more finished photos of it will be posted in the finished aircraft section of this forum tomorrow.
Thanks for reading
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