Daz's Dogfight Double - **DONE**

DazDaMan · Post by **DazDaMan** » September 27th, 2015, 10:59 pm

Well, no prizes for guessing what my subjects will be....

My kits will be the Matchbox Spitfire XVI and the Classic Planes Hispano Buchon.

fredk · Post by **fredk** » September 27th, 2015, 11:43 pm

oh, what a shurprize!

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » September 28th, 2015, 8:13 am

Never would have believed it!

DazDaMan · Post by **DazDaMan** » September 28th, 2015, 8:03 pm

Now I'm wondering about my Spitfire choice.

I was wanting to do the Spitfire XVI and Buchon in the photo, but I'm tempted to do the Airfix Spitfire IX as MH434 and the Buchon as G-BOML....

iggie · Post by **iggie** » September 28th, 2015, 9:09 pm

Daz, Are you sure you're up to this? I mean, a Spitfire? They take a bit of practice you know

Still, as the saying goes.......you can never......

DazDaMan · Post by **DazDaMan** » September 28th, 2015, 9:47 pm

I think I'm getting to the point where I HAVE got too many!

fredk · Post by **fredk** » October 2nd, 2015, 11:10 pm

A Spitfire? Don't see too many of those built too often.

DazDaMan · Post by **DazDaMan** » October 4th, 2015, 6:23 pm

Right, chaps, trying to decide between two warbird options is getting me nowhere....!

HOWEVER!

I did choose two kits to build for the Heller GB, but haven't had the time to do them for that one. However, a Spitfire XVI and Bf109K-4 would be about right together, and they are already out of the stash....!

DazDaMan · Post by **DazDaMan** » October 4th, 2015, 8:31 pm

Right, so after much deliberation, my choice of kits will be:

and

I've built plenty(!) Spitfire XVIs before, but never the '109K, so I hope it's not got any surprises in store for me! The '109 will be strictly OOB, but the Spit may have spares box decals if the kit's versions are a bit iffy.

DazDaMan · Post by **DazDaMan** » October 5th, 2015, 2:41 pm

So, let's start with the Spitfire:

OK, we should all be familiar with this pile of plastic...

I'd totally forgotten that I had pinched the canopy from this one to use on another (I strongly suspect it was the Airfix Mk.IX I converted a few months ago), so the kit will use one of these vac-formed jobs:

And the decals aren't that sickly green colour, and are pretty well registered!

DazDaMan · Post by **DazDaMan** » October 5th, 2015, 2:44 pm

And here's the '109's box:

Anyone got any hints or tips for this, or is it a nice, easy build?

Post by **jssel** » October 5th, 2015, 3:39 pm

Great choices Daz. Back in the day the Heller 109 series was considered top notch. I think they still hold up today.

DazDaMan · Post by **DazDaMan** » October 5th, 2015, 3:50 pm

So hopefully this one will do the same!

I'm going to leave off the propellers on these models, since they will be modelled as "in flight", rather than static.

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » October 5th, 2015, 7:32 pm

Should be good Daz!

DazDaMan · Post by **DazDaMan** » October 5th, 2015, 10:53 pm

So far, the Spitfire's wings have been put together, as has the cockpit components.

Pics will follow later.

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