Barry's Build **FINISHED**

The Heller Spitfire XVI Single Kit Group Build
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Re: Barry's Build **FINISHED**

Post by Old_Tonto »

Thanks for the tutorial Barry. I will give it a go during the Xmas holidays - I got an airbrush & compressor for my Birthday in July but have not had time to try it yet!
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Re: Barry's Build **FINISHED**

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Thanks Barry,

That is really helpful and gives a very nice result. I have seen so many methods of masking that I didn't know which one to try first, so went with blu-tac and tape. Of course I tried to mask the whole model at once and then constantly squashed the blu-tac out of shape :oops:

It also didn't help that the Revell instructions used two very similar shades of grey to show the demarcation lines.

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Re: Barry's Build **FINISHED**

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Fantastic finish Barry!

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Re: Barry's Build **FINISHED**

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Lovely job and nice to see one finished as Heller intended, Matchbox decals really are the biz.
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