Splash's last minute PM MkV. ***finished***

[splash]

My wife is at work and I have just found a PM Spitfire MkVb in my stash, so I thought tonight I would have a quick build to see how far I can get in an evening.

Now this is not a Tamiya shake and bake hit in fact it's more like Airfix first Spitfire kit very basic, small parts count and very little detail.

So here I go, it's 19:15 here in the UK and a re-run of Top Gear is on the TV so out with the tray and time to cut plastic in front of the TV.




Regards Splash

[DazDaMan]

I've got this one in the stash, so I shall pay attention to your build!

Good luck!

[splash]

Half an hour into the build has got me to this stage.

[despondman]

Good stuff. Should be able to get quite a way with this.

[splash]

It's now 21:30 2hours 15 minutes into the build and I'm at this stage.



As kits go it very old school and reminds me of the very old frog kits that had sold wings with no wheel wells.

At only £1.80 it has to be value for money and would be a good starter kit as its so easy to build. But as an accurate representation of a Spitfire it falls short in too many areas.

I'm going to give it a coat of klear as the PM decals are notorious bad this means it will not be finished tonight and as it's my birthday tomorrow I will not get any bench time until Friday so the GB extension will help.

Regards Splash

[Molly-new]

Show off.

Happy Birthday for tomorrow. I will be 50 tomorrow, and IIRC it is AndrewR's Birthday as well. all round.

[despondman]

Great work. Really looking good.

[splash]

Show off.

Happy Birthday for tomorrow. I will be 50 tomorrow, and IIRC it is AndrewR's Birthday as well. all round.

Happy Birthday to all three of us I think I'm the oldest at 61

Regards Splash

[DazDaMan]

I'm half-tempted to give mine a bash before Sunday now!

Happy birthday for tomorrow, too!

[TimJ]

Looking good. Happy Birthday for tomorrow.

[BlohmWolf]

Happy birthday Splash!

You like coming into a GB a bit late and make a good model with little time left don't you?

[splash]

My past experience of using PM's decals has not been good, normally they tend to be too big so I have painted the rudder red and using a hole punch cut out the white crescent and star.

The rest of the decals behaved well and settled down well.

Apart from it's cheap price there is very little to recommend this kit unless you need a blitz kit as in total I have spent less that 4 hours on.





Regards Splash

[DazDaMan]

Looks OK, that!

[TobyC]

You've done a very good job on that.

[TimJ]

Great job.