back to my childhood- model kit finished-pics

[delta7]

My kids gave me a i/48th kit for christmas. Its been about 30 years since I last done these so had to get all the gear and paint etc. Its not as good as I hoped, the paint went on a bit thick and some of the decals arnt quite right but not bad for a first attempt.

The kit was a revell spitfire IX / XVI. I built the XVI version, which was the american built merlin version of the IX, and had planned to get decal sets to mark it up as 603 city of edinburgh squadron. 603 and 602 flew these at the end of the war in operation big ben against the V2 sites in holland and as TAF. Unfortunatly I was not quite happy with the paint so decided to just built it from the box as one of the Polish squadrons. I built it with only slight weathering and have to thank Painless for his encouragement and waldo for the refrences.

I have learnt a few leasons and plan to get a Me109 or FW 190 next to complement this one- Ill thin the paint a lot more and get a dedicated decal set as I think this will make it better.

anyway here it is

[Cold_Gambler]

Looks very nice, imo.

[Klinger]

Yup, you must have a steady hand, and an eye for detail.

Good job m8.

[Painless]

~S~ Dave, nice job M8 ! You managed to get your decals sorted then ! lol

We need a K9s airbrush which we can all hire from time to time

[GreyKnight]

Very nice job! the pics of it look great. Can't wait to see it lined up alongside its adversary.

[Blairgowrie]

Looks good to me Dave. Well done.

[erco]

That looks great M8, very nice job!

[JensenPark]

looks great...

I'd love to start getting back into modelling with my boys...but boy are they expensive now...

$25 for a simple 1/32 scale plane...

BG by the way does modelling.

[Blairgowrie]

And I just bought a church where I can worship myself in.

[delta7]

LOL BG

thank you for the kind comments- the pics smooth it out a bit and of course I took them from the best angles-

[erco]

Here you go M8, this is a great place to shop: http://www.squadron.com/HotDeals.htm

I've never done business with these guys, http://www.hannants.co.uk/  but I hear they're pretty good too!

[JensenPark]

And I just bought a church where I can worship myself in.

ROTFL!

Well done BG.

Best laugh I've had ever from your amazing humour...

Thanks for the laugh of the day bud.

[Dubbo]

Nice stuff. When I build - well anything really - you can liken it too the Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin built the F4 model.

[Friar]

And I just bought a church where I can worship myself in

I wondered why you had not been attending the church in the village BG, and there was me thinking that 3:00pm was too early in the day for you to be up and about.

[BadAim]

Nice work M8. Aircraft are tough and you pulled that one off nicely . When I was still building I stuck mostly to ground vehicles as any major screw-ups are much easier to hide; it's very difficult to get away with hanging a duffel bag off the side of a Spitfire, but it works fine on a Sherman.