Airfix 1/72nd Supermarine Spitfire F Mk.22 (new tool)

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This beauty has Speed written all over it!

Your NMF scheme is no small feat either. Natural metal is deceptively simple looking but difficult to pull off successfully.

Which you have done in inimitable style!

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Nice to see this finished and boy, what a finish it is! Lovely work Shaun.
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Beautiful finish. Great build
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Been watching this one come together, Shaun. And sympathetic to the fiddly fettling required with these new tool kits.
Marvelous result!
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Many thanks, guys. Despite finding Airfix NT kits to require more filling and fettling than I would perhaps expect from modern products, I really think they do look good once finished and are worth the effort.
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That looks fantastic, and extra points for the drilled out exhausts.

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Excellent clean build of a great kit, very well done 8-) 8-) 8-)

You sprayed Humbrol Hu11??? :shock: How if I may ask, had nothing but pebbly rough finishes trying to spray any Humbrol/Testors metal or metallic paint :evil: used up a lot of trial days for naught :evil: If you can give some advice it would be very welcome :)
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Cheers, guys.

I airbrushed the Hu-11 over a coat of matt black Faaman. How much that helped I don't know but I've read about the use of black under metallic finishes when Alclad paints are used so decided to give it a try here. I believe Alclad users normally undercoat with gloss black but I didn't have any handy so used matt instead (Hu-33). All of the paint used on the model was thinned with cheap hardware store white spirit, which is what I always use to thin enamel paints. I'm not very scientific with paint mixes and thin to the consistency of milk or thereabouts. I used a 1990's USA-made Badger GXF-100 gravity feed dual-action airbrush with a medium needle assembly and a base pressure of between 1.5 and 2 bar - my compressor is Italian (again from the 90's, a lot of my gear is pretty old!) and the pressure gauge is metric, 2 bar is around 30 psi I think. I tend to airbrush from around 6/8 inches from the surface of the model for an overall coat like the Spit received and keep the airbrush in more or less constant motion. I have also failed in the past to achieve a smooth coat of metallic (particularly using acrylics) so all of this might have been just pure luck but I will now try another metallic finish on an aircraft using the same method - usually model manufacturers also give a camo version so all will not be lost. That tinlet of Hu-11 is old, again from the 90's I think (I do have some stuff from the 21st Century :ha: ) - certainly younger than the mountains but maybe older than the trees (apologies to any country music lovers out there).
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Lovely job Shaun, glad it got the juices flowing again. I have one tucked away somewhere, may see if it will do the same for me.
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Thanks, Shane. There was no real reason for the waning of my interest and it isn't the first time that it's happened. When the mojo does go I don't force it but instead keep a passive interest going, such as reading magazines and coming on here and usually my interest will return after a few weeks. This time rather than go straight back to a more involved project, like my current Sea Harrier, I decided to build a modern kit OOB and the idea worked - I'll see how long it lasts, probably until there's a problem with the Harrier :ha:
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Must fight temptation to build Spitfire. Dam you Shaun!
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What a lovely job Shaun :razz: very subtle finish 8-)
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Re: Airfix 1/72nd Supermarine Spitfire F Mk.22 (new tool)

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'Your NMF scheme is no small feat either. Natural metal is deceptively simple looking but difficult to pull off successfully'. (The Great Auk)

As Shaun pointed out in his introduction, it's not a NMF finish - it's the overall painted silver (high speed silver) that was used on many post WW2 aircraft.
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Thanks guys.

Yes, Vacant is correct. The full-size aircraft was in fact painted High Speed Silver as opposed to a bare metal finish. I believe Hu-11 is reasonably close to High Speed Silver but perhaps should be a little more grey. No doubt somewhere on the web, if not on here, there will be instructions as to the correct shade to use or how to mix it. A painted finish like this is easier to replicate IMHO. Had the aircraft required a NMF I would have made the effort to add different shades of paint in an effort to show different metals, control surfaces and the like - or maybe I would have just used Hu-11 :ha:
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Re: Airfix 1/72nd Supermarine Spitfire F Mk.22 (new tool)

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Apologies for the error in my post.

Still, that's a fantastic finish and a delight every viewing!

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