Airfix Spitfire PR XIX 1/72 -- AndrewR & Narayan

[AndrewR]

Hope that's not too late to join in.

By the conditions of Shared Builds, no-one will be joining us after we start, so yes...it would be too late to join in.

This condition bothers me. Having seen you start, and knowing I have a kit in the stash, I might want to join in (I don't, at this juncture - I'm just talking hypothetically although I do know I have one of these in the stash). My interest may not be piqued until I see some action in a thread (such as is happening here. You may consider some "buffer" for joining in. If you expect everyone who may want to join in to nominate their interest prior to kickoff then you might be limiting 25-50% of potential builders.

This discussion belongs in either the rules thread or the Shared build chat thread, not in a build thread!
Take it up with MerlinJones elsewhere, he drafted the rules.

Cheers

Andrew

[MerlinJones]

Agreed.

[AndrewR]

I will be starting my build at about 9 pm EDT on 10th Sept. 2012. As this is in the wee small hours for the UK, you can start either on the 10th or the 11th of September. I'm looking forward to this.

[MerlinJones]

Having started on the Beaver, I'm now also looking forward to the Spitty.

Regards,
Bruce

[AndrewR]

The countdown is running. Unfortunately I have minor details like starting to teach a new physics course tomorrow, before modelling can commence! Only 200 students in this one
I'll need the therapeutic modelling session tomorrow night.

Cheers

Andrew

[Jagewa]

220 plus views and no plastic has been bashed, you guys are big teases!

[MerlinJones]

I'll be starting tonight also...

[lancfan]

Am looking forward to this as I have had the pleasure of building this kit on three occasions, if I had one in the stash I would have joined you.

David.

[MerlinJones]

Nothing like frottering styrene for chasing away the blues of the working day...


...Especially when the kit is as nice as this!
Okay, so I'm not over-chuffed with the exterior panel lining, but the interior's nice so far. The pilot is definitely a jet jockey and, as such, seems unsuitable for this kit.
However, if he flies in the early 1950's, then he'll do. Blue flightsuit, orange 'Maewest', not too dissimilar from my Meteor and Hunter pilots.

I got some sub-assemblies together;

It's a pity there's no i/p decal, but I have some Migrant decals to apply, so I'm happy enough.

NOTE that the exhausts are handed, so that they are angled downwards. Don't ask me how I know.
In assembling the wings, I was alert enough to paint the insides H78. The wheels-up option pieces are an accurate fit and so there is a slight gap around the wheels. It would've been a bit of a beggar to paint the green through the wheels.

I've looked at the transparency of the camera ports and have worked something out to suggest 'Camera'...a short length of plastic tube, of suitable diameter, will have its end painted black, before being glued directly onto the back of the glasses.
This evening, I'll be painting pilot and cockpit and fitting cameras.

Regards,
Bruce

[Narayan]

My Spit turned up 10 minutes ago (was delivered to the in-laws today as I was out when postie called). I'll get cracking on it a bit later and post an update.

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Narayan

‘I then realised my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.’
Group Captain Douglas Bader CBE DSO DFC

A:B
2012 12:02 2009 19:16
2011 11:10 2008 16:03
2010 44:12

Overall 185:48

[Narayan]

Quick question: Should we all be making the same scheme? I'm guessing we don't have to as we could be making different makes of the same aircraft.

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Narayan

‘I then realised my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.’
Group Captain Douglas Bader CBE DSO DFC

A:B
2012 12:02 2009 19:16
2011 11:10 2008 16:03
2010 44:12

Overall 185:48

[jssel]

Yeah. You got it. That is a good question as i didn't think that there were to many schemes for the XIX.

I am not in the know so it will be interesting to see.

[MerlinJones]

The starting point is the Airfix 1/72 PRXIX...what we do with it is up to us. (So no...we couldn't be making different makes of the same aircraft).

(Mwa-hahaha-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!)

Mine will be in the RAF Malaya scheme, in flight.

Regards,
Bruce

[dusan]

Excellent work! I really like NMF one, Burma?

All the best!
Dusan.

[lancfan]

Quick question: Should we all be making the same scheme? I'm guessing we don't have to as we could be making different makes of the same aircraft.

Narayan, most of the RAF ones were finished in PRU blue, early wartime ones had invasion stripes and wartime roundels, post-war some had the grey decking added and the THUM spitfires at Woodvale were later painted silver.
the Swedisah aircraft were PRU blue the Thai ones were PRU Blue and grey and the Turkish Spitfires were light blue undersides with a dark green on top. You could always finish a model as one of the BoB film machines.

David.