Da huuuuuuge Spit

[Ollie]

Well, here she is!

Just before I closed the fuselage, I took this picture with MH434 in 1/48 for size.



RAF Interior Green interior with Aluminium aft fuselage.  Cockpit detailed with various MM and Gunze shades, I used the "Spitfire - A Living Legend" by Jeremy Flack as my main guide.

Cockpit is crap, especially the seat, but it goes together very well.

On the engine, avoid the vinyl thingies at all cost, ditch them somewhere far away.

B)

[cthulhu77]

GREAT GOD ALMIGHTY!!!!!
   That should be quite the head turner !
               g

[Ollie]

I have it, but the pictures are in black and white for the most part, while the book I'm using is full colour from cover to cover.

And it features rebuilt Spits.

 

[Ollie]

Well, when you UK dudes rebuild a Spit, you make it as it was during the war, this cannot be said of the Yanks who fancy a light grey dash over the black one.

I've seen a rebuilt Spit from very close, and it was just was it would have been during the war.  And the book is quite good, you can tell it's a GPS/LORAN or modern avionics in there, the colours of the instruments, etc, they're all the same.

And as you say yourself, MFM.

 

[Keith Diamond]

wow, that thing is freakin' huge!!!   Amazing Ollie.

[Leigh]

errrm wot is it? 1/24 Airfix?

[nev]

Looking good so far Ollie  

Have you done anything to the mish-shapen lump of plastic that Trumpeter call a seat?

Charging 80 quid for a kit with unusable decals and lacking the most basic of detail in an important area in this scale is a disgrace.  And I'm certainly not paying another 15 quid to buy the cutting edge seat which isn't much better!  

What markings will yours be in Ollie?  I get the feeling it might be a RCAF squadron ...    

[viper29_ca]

That must be a different Spit kit then what one of the guys here in the club has, or its not a Trumpeter kit.

Anyway, one of the guys in the club here has a 1/24 Trumpeter Spit, and the kit is uterly beautiful....mind you I would have a hard time parting with $100+ for the kit.....but still it was pretty damn nice. Oh wait a min....I am an Ebay store...and can get my Academy and Trumpeter kits at cost!!! LOL.

Seem to remember that the decals were pretty nice as well....done by a well known aftermarket company....their name escapes me now....but they were pretty nice....

[Aircav]

So what Wif is it going to be ?    

[Gary]

I have enough trouble finishing 72nd stuff. I'd go totally mad trying to do something like that!

Good on ya chum, your a braver and better man than I.

[TsrJoe]

hmm..lots of 'real' what if possibilities...Estonian, French, Icelandic, Finnish...all early Mk.1 airframes

[Ollie]

Thanks guys.  She's the Hobbycraft boxing of the Trump kit, I got it for less than half price, so I'm not complaining!   ^_^

Here we go :

- Wooksta : I know all that, but since I rebuild real aircrafts in real life, I know exactly where I'm going, and my models are more like mini-Warbirds than bona fide replicas of the thing while in service.

- Nev : Nothing done to the seat, left it that way.  401 Sqn. of course!

- Viper : decals are by Aeromaster, printed by Microscale.

- Gary : Don't worry, it's actually fairly easy to build thanks to excellent engineering.

B)  

[Spellbinder99]

I agree Ollie. I am building the MkV Floatplane version and I have to say that the engineering is such that I can ignore the "errors" in the kit like the tailplane fabric surfaces. That and I will fix what I hate and ignore the rest.

I am going to insert the cockpit from underneath once painting is done and the engine is now just a holder for the prop as I have glued the engine cowlings shut for a better fit as I did with all the wing gun access panels.

This model looks more like a Spitfire than the Airfix one ever did, for a start you actually get wing dihedral rather than the saggy flat-plank Airfix construction! And I too am an aircraft engineer/ restorer, so I appreciate what you are saying.....

Cheers

Tony

[nev]

Seem to remember that the decals were pretty nice as well....done by a well known aftermarket company....their name escapes me now....but they were pretty nice....

If its the Hobbycraft reboxing you get 3 decals options (one of which Ollie has kindly sent me).  The Trumpeter decal sheet has ONE option   and the code letters are in white rather than sky.  Oh, and the name on the nose is mis-spelt.

Still, the roundels look OK  

80 quid for that...    

[Sisko]

Size does matter. Spitfire, not something I would be interested in normally until now.