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Thanks for you comments Gents - much appreciated. styrenedemon: the scuffs were done using very dilute mixes of colours close to the base colours. They were mottled on during the painting stage, and then blended in using Testors Dullcote that had been tinted with small amouts of Tamiya XF-1 Flat Black and XF-68 Red Brown acrylics paint. The chips around the rivets resulted from very light sanding of the rivets agter painting. Rather than sand the little bumps that push up when adding the rivets, I left them - added the paint - then sanded carefully to pop out some fo the rivets. Other chips were added with thinned XF-16 Flat Aluminium enamel and then blended with the tinted Dullcote lacquer. The tinted Dullcote mix was also used to add light grime on the airframe, and help build up the exhaust staining. Hope this helps. Jeroen; Matt: will try to dig up some others, including the 110. Cheers, Ralph.

Great scheme and results. The Mr Colour colours certainly look nice in natural light. Congrats. Cheers, Ralph.

Hasegawa's Bf109 F-4/Trop done out-of-the-box in 2011 with some Tamiya tape seat belts and left-over "Yellow 10" decals from a Kagero sheet... Thanks for looking. Cheers, Ralph.

Hey Jeroen - "that resonates with me". A Tooheys to you! "Cheers!" Ralph.

Done in 2009. Used quite a few of the EagleParts bits and decals; Quickboost MGs and exhausts; and Wedgetail prop blades. Rivets added with a pin... Thanks for the kind responses to the previous offerings - much appreciated. Cheers, Ralph.

Another oldie. Rivets added with RB Productions wheels; painted with Floquil enamels and Tamiya acrylics; markings from Freightdog Models FSD32-001 "P-47 Thunderbolts. Immediate Post-War RAF". The Curtis Electric prop came from the Trumpeter kit; seat belts from RB Productions. Thanks for looking. Cheers, Ralph.

Benjamin: thanks for that underside pic - not seen it before. Two-tone camo upper - and lower!! Nick: some pics of the windshield change... ...dry fit... ... had to remove the raised "line" molded on the kit to let the Tamiya part sit down. The Tamiya gunsight was added with a small extension to the mount to let it clear the windshield ... ... added Tamiya thin cement where the parts touched... ...Mr Surfacer to fill the gaps ... ... cleaned up... ... the Tamiya hood ... ... the kit hood. Hope these help. Cheers, ralph.

Built last year. Added airframe rivets and a few other home-made enhancements. Painted with Tamiya acrylics. Markings again courtesy of Mal Mayfield. Apologies to those who might have seen it elsewhere last year... Thanks for looking. Cheers, Ralph.

cheers Gents... Benjamin: I painted the undersides with a mix of Tamiya XF-2 Flat White and XF-23 Light Blue as a guess at the lesser known Sky Blue. I also borrowed a style used by a guy called Anis in Turkey - very similar to the WWI "see through" look but in reverse. Much of the cartoon effect is lost now. Undersides pretty-much done. Used a combination of tinted Dullcote, thinned Games Workshop Babab Black wash, and FABER-CASTELL water-soluble pencils... Thanks for looking. Cheers, Ralph.

Built out-of-the box back in 2010 and painted with Tamiya acrylics, and the aid of masks from Mal Mayfield. Apologies to those who saw it back then. Thanks for looking. Cheers, Ralph.

First attempt at using an oil wash, so started on the undersides. MIG's "Shadow Brown", followed by some Dullcote tinted with Tamiya's acrylic XF-68 NATO Brown and XF-69 NATO Black ... ... gets a bit ugly up close... ... oil leaks, paint wear etc next. Thanks for looking. Cheers, Ralph.

Thanks for the "welcome" Gents - much appreciated. Rick: DoogsATX is right. The model is meant to represent a 603 Sqn RAF Vb Trop flown by an Australian pilot, Flt Sgt Colin Parkinson RAAF, in Takali, Malta around July 1942. The idea for the scheme came from the Rising Decals "Mediterranean Spitfires" (RD72037). Since painting the model, there is now information available that the undersides of EP200 may have not have been repainted and so retained the original Sky colour and the earlier style underwing roundels. Would make quite a striking colour combination. The spinner colour is also up for grabs - could have been red. Benjamin: apologies that you can't see the pics. Don't know how to help with that one. Cheers, Ralph.

Newbie here. Hope you've got room for another one... Hobby Boss's Mk.Vb Trop kit with a few mods. The three main mods during assembly were grafting on a Tamiya Mk.IX windshield, replacing the undersized wing cannons with Master Model items, and fixing the tailplane fabric surfaces with a pin. Camo colours are Tamiya acrylic mixes. The Dk Earth is too red for my liking. The speculative blue-grey is ... well you guys know the story there. Markings were painted on using masks from Mal Mayfield. Any inaccuracies in the insignia styles sit with me, as does the likely mistake with the starboard-side code locations. The fuselage roundels and serial numbers where I thought they went but that didn't leave enough room for the squadron codes. Model recently decaled using kit decals, and glossed in prep for weathering. Wingroot colours were mottled with a lighter shade and then gently sanded to remove some paint from around the rivets. Didn't work so well on the blue-grey areas as there wasn't enough contrast between the camo tones and the underlying grey primer. Undecided about the "No walk" lines - paint them on the original Dk Earth only; paint them in full; or don't paint them at all. Any advice much appreciated. Kit decals worked fine with MICRO SET. The kit spinner and prob blades have been replaced with Grey Matter Figure items. Unfortunately the replacement spinner backing plate was smaller in diameter than the spinner, so the spinner was grafted to an old Hasegawa backing plate. Prior to grafting, the Hasegawa backing plate was trimmed to match the nose of the kit. The rest of the build WIP is over on the LSP Works-in-progress forum if interested. Comments/critisism welcomed. Thanks for looking. Cheers, Ralph.

Thanks Benjamin - info much apprciated. Hadn't even looked at the metal parts fret. Have some covers spare from a Mk.IX build so will follow your lead on that one. Cheers, Ralph.

Hello Benjamin. Very interesting scheme choice - not seen a IX modelled in the Malta colours. You mention using wheels from BaracudaCast. I can't see them listed on Roy's site. Appreciate that you finished the model some years ago - might you still have the covered wheel set details, as I'd like to follow up with Roy. I'm keen to get a set to use on a Hobby Boss Vb Trop being modelled as another Malta Spitfire. Cheers, Ralph.