Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb ***FINISHED***
Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
Looking good. With the exception of the Mossie and theTyphoons all of those 1/24 Airfix Kits date from when god was a lad.
Well done for persevering with it.
GF
Well done for persevering with it.
GF
Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
Thanks!!, it's coming out well actually!. Not perfect but it was cheap(ish) and looks like a Spitfire!.Gadfly wrote:Looking good. With the exception of the Mossie and theTyphoons all of those 1/24 Airfix Kits date from when god was a lad.
Well done for persevering with it.
GF
Hoping to return to modelling sometime this year!!
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Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
Nice work, the grey looks much better.
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Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
Apologies for the huge lack of updates, have been plodding along with this one. TBH, if it wasn't a Spitfire I might have lost interest completely. Still, she's together now, wings added to fuselage, everything on apart from the intake under the chin and some aerials. Pics later....
Hoping to return to modelling sometime this year!!
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Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
Finally some pics, still going with this one, now that the wings are attached to the fuselage it looks good and more importantly it looks like a Spit!.
Hoping to return to modelling sometime this year!!
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Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
How did you find the undercarriage on this one?
Daren
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Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
Probably by looking in the boxDazDaMan wrote:How did you find the undercarriage on this one?
Keep going, it looks good so far.
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Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
Agree looking good. Not far to go with it...
Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
jRatz wrote:Probably by looking in the boxDazDaMan wrote:How did you find the undercarriage on this one?
Daren
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Half-assed Spitfire builder!
Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
Yeah, it was on the sprue, who'd have thought!!. . In truth not brilliant as far as fit. It seems it was meant to go up and down, a working feature I think they're called. Although the bits to hold the leg were good, the leg was a slight kinked shape at the top end and it was not easy to retract the wheels. I would have left it wheels down but as I wanted wheels up I cut the top of the legs off and the two little stubs that were at right angles to the leg. I just glued the leg/wheel into the bay and put the doors on top.jRatz wrote:Probably by looking in the boxDazDaMan wrote:How did you find the undercarriage on this one?
Keep going, it looks good so far.
If you model it wheels down it would be fine IIRC, but changing it between the two- not so much.
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Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
I found the top of the leg to be too long, and it kept fouling the underside of the top wing skin. So much so that it actually pushed apart the two pieces after they'd been glued!
It's not so bad now, but I won't be cycling the gear much, that's for sure!
It's not so bad now, but I won't be cycling the gear much, that's for sure!
Daren
Half-assed Spitfire builder!
Half-assed Spitfire builder!
Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
Yes, that's what I found with the leg when I tried to lower it, the top was too long on this one to.DazDaMan wrote:I found the top of the leg to be too long, and it kept fouling the underside of the top wing skin. So much so that it actually pushed apart the two pieces after they'd been glued!
It's not so bad now, but I won't be cycling the gear much, that's for sure!
Hoping to return to modelling sometime this year!!
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Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
Hi, been working extra at my morning job this week (8 hours or so!), and as I already feel tired most of the time, grabbing extra money made it worse. By the time I get done with my afternoon job and walk the dog I'm worn out!!. . Therefore I have struggled with time to model and even more so with putting pics on here. However here is the state of play with the Spit. Some work done although splits appeared in the wing root at the back of the wing, shims of plastic were glued in and trimmed. Needs some painting, along with some other areas where I've made it more smooth and gotten rid of a slight step.
Hoping to return to modelling sometime this year!!
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Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
Paint it in aluminium - instant weathering!
Daren
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Half-assed Spitfire builder!
Re: Marky's 1/24th Spitfire Vb
Might do!!.
Hoping to return to modelling sometime this year!!
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