discussion Dave W's Matchbox 1/32 spitfire 'A classic from the seventies '

[Dave W]

I started this 10 months ago and finally got round to finishing it. It needed quite a bit of filler and a lot of work. It's not perfect but I'm happy with it. I built it out of box including the 35 year old decals. The glue on the stencils showed thru the clear carrier film. So I floated the decals off the paper into a bowl of water. Then I cleaned the glue off, put them back on backing paper and applied them to the model with micro set. I used an HGW fabric harness in the cockpit. A bit fiddly to assemble but worth the effort. I will definitely use them again. The build started out as a mk24. But I eventually finished it as a mk22 of no.603 'city of Edinburgh' sqdn from 1950. The two marks were identical apart from an extra fuel tank in the mk24's fuselage.

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[flyjoe180]

Great looking Spitfire Dave, clean, crisp and nicely finished. It was a long time between start and finish, but the wait was well worth it.

 

[stona]

Looks great. Nice to see an uncamouflaged finish too, it makes a nice change.


Cheers


Steve

 

[Guest]

You have certainly done a beautiful job on this Dave.

 

[papa 695]

Cracking work there Dave, and as Steve says it's nice to see a different colour scheme on a Spitfire.

 

[Guest]

Hi Dave!!


Beautiful Spit...well done, mate!!

 

[Guest]

lovely clean build dave  ,

 

[Gwyn]

Excellent looking job,well done Dave.

 

[Guest]

A top job there Dave! A mark of a skilled modeller is you'd never know the amount of work that went into making such a beauty

 

[eddiesolo]

I have to agree Dave, a cracking build and no sign of the issues. Lovely finish mate.


I even managed to find an old picture of your aircraft

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[dave]

Looks good and nice to see a different finish to normal.

 

[Guest]

Nice job, Dave. You overcame the problems on this old kit really well.

 

[colin m]

A silver Spitfire - well it just looks - fast.............Nice job.

 

[Ian M]

Great result from a trying kit. She does look good in speed silver.

 

[Guest]

Nice job mate, reminds me of a mustang or a P-47 with that NMF finish


John