Daz's Commissioned Spitfire build..... **FINISHED**

[DazDaMan]

Anyhoo....

I'm going to get some of the small fittings on tonight, and HOPEFULLY I can start painting the beast by Friday....!

[Gadfly]

Those seatbelts look to be very wide...

[DazDaMan]

Yeah, a result of my cack-handedness more than anything else.

[DazDaMan]

Paint going on this morning:

[ShaunW]

Looking good Daren - Revell Aqua with the hairy stick? looks to be good paint coverage, did it take a few coats? (I consider myself to be generally quite a poor brush painter, doubly so with acrylics!)

[DazDaMan]

Yep, Revell Aqua "Sky" applied with the hairy stick. That's just the first coat, so I'll be going over it later.

[DazDaMan]

Undersides have had their second coat, so it's on to the uppers....

[DazDaMan]

Two layers of dark earth now on the topsides, so hopefully that should do it. I'll leave it to dry properly overnight before attempting the dark green patches tomorrow.

[DazDaMan]

The camouflage pattern has been mapped out using pencil:

[DazDaMan]

First layer of dark green:


While that lot dries, I'm going to stick the exhausts and undercarriage together...

[Gadfly]

Speedy progress Brown and green are classic spitfire colours.

I pulled my boxing of this kit out last night and started to deal to the rivet detail on the rear fuselage with some Mr.Disolved Putty. After a rub back it's looking a lot better..

Look forward to seeing the decals appear.

Cheers
John

[DazDaMan]

You know, apart from the fiddly cockpit detail, and my gripes about over-engineered parts (I'm not too convinced of the undercarriage set-up!), this isn't actually a bad kit at all. Yes, it has some detail/accuracy issues but, if you're not massively fussy about that, it builds up into a nice Spitfire-shaped model. And it's relatively cheap, too.

Would I build another one? Quite probably.

[ShaunW]

Yet more nifty work with the hairy stick Daren. I have limited experience with the Revell Aqua acrylics range but the light grey and blue that I did use the other year on a Revell B-737-800 build airbrushed really well. Could be that the range suits both HS and puff brush users equally - I have found some acrylics awful to apply by brush even for detail work, yet the same paints have worked well enough in the airbrush.

[DazDaMan]

Cheers, Shaun.

Here's the second lot of green over the brown - looks better since I opened a new pot!



I really, really like these Revell Aqua acrylics. As I'm a die-hard brush painter, I find thinning the paints down a lot easier to do than I did with enamels. Add to that the fact that it dries quicker (ready for the next coat in about an hour!) and it's brilliant stuff. VERY handy for blitz builds!

[DazDaMan]

Finally up on its own two feet:


Exhaust pipes in, canopy glazing going on:


I don't think I'll get an awful lot done over the weekend, so it's looking like next week for the finish.