Lone Modeller wrote:When I think back to the first Airfix Spitfire (released in the late 1950's) which was the second kit that I built, and then look at the cockpit in your kit, I realise jusst how far we have come in the modelling world in the intervening decades. What a lovely kit and model.
I completely agree - the new cockpit is miles ahead of those old empty spaces!
The Airfix kit-provided markings for their Spit Mk.IIa were the machine P8088, “The Borough of Lambeth.”
This was the aircraft so beautifully depicted in the old Profile Publications monograph on the Spitfire I & II from 1965.
After painting a base coat of Model Master R.A.F. Dark Earth enamel, I used that rendering as the pattern to make camouflage masks.
The green parts of the scheme were then shot with Humbrol HB1 Green enamel.
Gotta love that sand and spinach!
The undersides were painted Model Master Sky Type S enamel, and the fuselage band was masked off and painted Duck Egg Blue.
After that, the whole airframe was prepped for decals with a coat of Future acrylic.
