Airfix spitfire mk1a 1/24

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Airfix spitfire mk1a 1/24

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Hi all, New project on the go, a little larger than anything I've built previously, good fun so far!!!

Scratch built some seat harneses and cushioned back for the seat, progress so far-

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That looks rather splendid!

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Fantastic seat belts. The rest of it is not bad either!
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Excellent work!
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Great to see one of these classic Airfix "Superkits" on the go Ollie and that is a seriously good start!
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Cheers guys :) it's all new on me with the large scale of things, first time I've scratch built anything for a kit too so all fresh and intriguing!!!

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The cockpit area pretty much done!!

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Slightly better shot of the control panel....
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Your first effort at scratch building looks pretty good to me Ollie, that is a great looking cockpit area 8-)
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Agreed. That looks very good indeed Ollie :grin: Careful though or you'll get addicted to the large scale and to scratchbuilding ;-) :ha:

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Cheers Shaunw :) thanks too Tom, I've got a vb 1/24 spit to do at some point and I must say that that I can't wait to get started on it !!! The scratch building is fun!!!! I wish I'd taken a picture of the seat back padding that I made as the seat was smooth before and you can't really see it in the pics behind the harneses :/ so far the build has been problem free, fingers crossed it stays that way lol....

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Now that is beautiful work.
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Cheers jssel :) it's good that all the hours spent at the modelling station aren't wasted !!!!

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Very impressive stuff Ollie. I can see that you're getting your hands dirty with this one ;-)
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Cheers dazzled :) haha, I'm doing my best to get grubby hands on this one ;)

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