spad93

very sharp and great execution - nice! From ealism point of view, love the blues on the topsides but tend to agree with trekracer20. Anyway, looks great and hope mine looks anywhere near as good! cheers Rick

I'm really going for this Dayglo thing at the moment. I've had tins of Precision Fluorescent Red/Orange in the box for about 25 years, mainly because my experiences when I used it back then were not brilliant. It seemed hard work so I backed away. However I just finished the new Airfix Vampire which was a delight to build and I had an equally good experience with the old paints - sprayed beautifully tbh! What's that all about then! I guess a more measured approach to paint prep is one of the benefits of getting older! Anyway, I was hankering for a bit more bright orange so with the confiden

Blimey! Liking that! Can it really take-off with that lot underneath!?! Great paint work there! cheers Rick

Hello all Been a lurker on here for a while so I thought I would share with you my experiences of the new Airfix Vampire. First, it is a good kit with some lovely detail and panel lines that although seem a little deep actually look fine under a little paint - I hope you can see what I mean. I built it pretty much OOB except for adding some seat harnesses from lead foil, seat top ejection pull handles and a few antennae around the place. After finishing it I saw some pics of the Duxford machine on which my chosen scheme seems to be based and found I had the wrong configuration of pull-handl