RAAF Spitfire MK.Vc

[Keith]

Hi all this is my recently finished Eduard 1:48 Spitfire MK.Vc

 

This is finished in the markings of a Spitfire MK.Vc A58-145 ex EE852 of 79 Squadron RAAF while based at Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands in December 1943.

Codes UP-V and had a Girl Nose Art and the name Nipponese applied
 

 

The build 

The construction was fairly quick and easy with just a couple of minor fit issues.

And in my haste to get the cockpit in and the fuselage all buttoned up I forgot to add the two compressed gas bottles on the port fuselage behind the pilots seat DOH. Hadn’t realised till attaching the last few parts after the model was painted! 

I also broke the Aerial mast twice 

Never Mind!

I wanted to create my own mask for this.

I used the closest fonts I could find for the codes and serials and designed the roundels to the appropriate size on my cricut app

I mainly used MRP paints as these are now my go to range (absolutely love em) but also I had to purchase a couple of Outlaw Paints for the appropriate RAAF colours and as with MRP paints they sprayed beautifully straight from the bottle.

The Earth Brown and Azure Blue are MRP and the RAAF Foliage Green is by Outlaw Paints (First Time using this range) 

All camo was sprayed freehand 

The codes are painted RAAF Sky Blue and the serials are just the black primer (in hindsight I should have used Nato Black).

I used the kit supplied stencils and the Nose Art and removed the carrier film (love them or hate them
Items used as follows 

Eduard cockpit PE + Eduard seatbelts both supplied with kit + Eduard canopy masks supplied with kit

Home made masks for all main markings 

Primers used Mr Surfacer 1200 grey + Mr finishing Surfacer 1500 black 

Paints used Mr Hobby SM201.

MRP-119 Azure Blue, -111 Interior Grey-Green, -173 Tyre-Rubber, -108 Dark Earth, -122 Marking Yellow, -124 Marking Blue, -135 Insignia White, -004 White,-077 Nato Black.

Outlaw Paints RAAF Foliage Green, RAAF Sky Blue.

Varnishes MRP-048 Super Clear Gloss and -127 Super Clear Matt.

Thinner MRP Mr.Thinner slow dry, Mr Hobby Mr Color Leveling Thinner and Outlaw Paints Acrylic Lacquer Thinner.

Flory’s Dark Dirt Wash 

Humbrol Weathering Powders 

Black,smoke,white,earth and sand

Ammo 0.3 Rigging 

Posca pens + Gaahleri  pens 

Humbrol Maskol

Micro Set & Sol

Glues + Adhesives 

Tamiya Extra Thin 

Revell Contacta 

VMS Flexy 5K CA Black

Airbrushes 

Fengda FE-183 and Gaahleri Advanced GHAD-39

This was another enjoyable build from start to finish 

 

Thank you for looking and any comments are most welcome and appreciated 

Happy Modelling and Cheers

Keith

 

 

 

 

[KevinM]

She came out Nice like the light weathering/panel effects

[PanzerWomble]

Nice precise build and paint job 👍