No plastic was chopped up this weekend, other commitments got in the way although I did have a good time

I have started work on the Day Fighter version. The interior of the Heller Spitfire has been sprayed in white primer to help hide the black plastic and the main parts of one of the Novo kits have been separated from their sprues which made me realise that I have a problem to solve

The Novo kits are of the Mk.1 version which has a chine radiator and not the wing leading edge ones of the Airfix kit.

This means I have to
a) Make wing leading edge radiators
b) Make a new under nose fairing for the engine.
Of these two things b) is the easier to achieve as I am sure I have a spitfire part left over from something that I can use as a basis. The wing leading edge radiators will have to be scratch built but I do have a rough idea of how to manage this. I just hope I can keep what I build to a reasonable scale look.
The Naval version I am also building, Torpedo/Strike version, is also to get leading edge radiators but I will use those from the Matchbox Tempest kit which is providing the engine and upper fuselage as a basis.
Gondor