Irishman1

Drilled several 1mm by 1mm holes in the cowling covers and engine framework, then installed magnets to hold them on when I don’t want to have engine visible.e

I’ve heard that a couple times now, I guess I’ve only seen color pictures of restored aircraft with the red crowbar. It makes sense that the ww2 crowbars would be Soler or bare steel color. I’ll repaint it !!!

Painted the yellow guard stripes on the wings., re-doped the barrel ends. Now on to the 1/24 Typhoon!!!

Almost there!!! Got the squadron and plane lettering masked and painted along with the rear stripe. Ran out of paint as I was just finishing the stripe… a antenna and FFL wire, a few more decals where the painted items were and I’m done

Also got the door on the correct way too!!

Just a few more details. I decided to just use the decals from the kit instead of the 1 man army stencils. I’ll save them for the typhoon. I also need to rig the antenna and the IFF wire, paint the rear fuselage strip, get the squad letters on. then weather it and call it done. Here’s a few pictures from today

Trying different methods for the red locking mechanism on the outside of the canopy. The smallest rod I had was way to big so I tried stretched sprue and I think it’s a good diameter. Now I just need to clean up the painting and the canopy

Well I’m going to remove the decals and paint the markings. Just don’t like the look of the different finishes between the paint and decals. I’ve always used decals on almost all of my other 1/24 builds but I’ve got the 1 man army stencils so this will be hood practice for the typhoon. The hellcat was my first model that I painted all the markings on and I’m happy with that one. The main problem is finding the correct color for the reddish roundel, I tried RAF hill red and it was not even close. I use water based paints to spray, mainly Vallejo

Wow!! Great looking aircraft! I think seeing how great your ww1 aircraft look makes me want to try to do some too!!

Installed the top decals to see if I like them or I’m going to spray all the markings on. Not sure yet…made a canopy lock mechanism for the top of the sliding glass

Top colors sprayed on today. Hit the bottom color tomorrow. Not sure if I’ll paint the markings or use the decals on this one….

Starting to paint. Trying different ways to get a soft edge. Trying the putty method after I paint the dark green. On my airfix 1/24 fe-190 I used paper cut to the cami shape then roll taped it so it was lifted off the surface, then held the airbrush at 90 degrees to the surface, like it should be with the putty. I also started to detail the engine with hoses and cables

Is it ever done? Added a few more details I thought of while I was working on the spitfire

Can’t wait to see more!!

Museum level detail!!! Unbelievable work being done here. Simply no words

Fantastic spitfire!

Beautiful work!!

Well I was happy to replace the very little detailed spinner with one I have from model monkey but…. It’s a three prop spinner🥲. got the props sanded down and ready for paint and got the exhaust pipes finished and installed , I was hard to keep the weld lines on the exhaust stacks without sanding them off but I think enough is still there.

It’s been the best fitting airfix kit I’ve built yet. Including the P-51,FW-190,BF-109,Mosquito,Hurricane,Ju-87, Hellcat.. it kinda seems simple in a detailed way. I really like this build, can’t wait to paint it. Next up is the 1/24 Typhoon!!

Just trying to get the gun tape(dope rolls) figured out before I start painting. This is tamyia yellow tape with red sharpie. I think it will work after painting and smoothed out. The color is spot on.

Starting to detail the engine and repainting some engine parts, added wiring to come, hit the exhaust all filled and painted. Now to weather and wear the exhaust

Well, I should have done this on the sprue but better late than never! Drilling out the lock screw fasteners

More progress this week, it’s tough because of my blurry vision but it’s been getting a little better so build while I can! Got the engin done and installed. I’ll start detailing the engine and engine bay. Need to figure out a good way to get the Rolls Royce plates on the valve covers done. Ideas? Built a scratch door floor and hinges for the coolers( thanks Craigboy!!) it’s really surprising to see the size difference between the spitfire and the hellcat and thunderbolt, no wonder the big American fighters could take so much damage. I can’t wait to get painting and trying my hand with the one man army stencils

And yes, I now know the seat it plastic! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction guys! Great amount of knowledge here and the help everyone gives it what makes this forum such fun to be apart of!