mark58 Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) Hi I'd like to start reporting about this build with a first batch of pictures The SH kit, is a short run product, which requires some modelling skills, a lot of fitting work, but the result is worth the time spent on the project Interior is good , no optional parts are required, everything is included in the kit Assembly requires some plastic card here and there to position wings and fuselage properly, to avoid the use of lots of putty It requires some tools and tape also, but nothing alarming Surfacing is a matter of patience, but once the wing has been positionned as good as possible, it's still a reasonably faisable task The precision work comes with reducing thickness of the trailing edge, this maybe a somewhat time consuming exercice, but vital to get the best out of this model, which has nice engraved surfaces and renders the spitfire design well Painting: this is the nice side of the job I mix all shades by myself with Revell Aquacolor, which is a nice up to date technology acrylic colours range It is thinned up with water only, and sprays in thin smoothly in thin layers under surfaces: azur blue upper surfaces: middle stone I like to cut out masks for the wings, which ables to reproduce patterns nicely considering curved lines, for the fuselage, the paste is much easier to use desert scheme completed Now comes the "sexy" side of this business, trying to turn the desert scheme into a none specified but nevertheless famous and real Malta defender scheme I sprayed water thinned azur blue in sort of haze technic, something like the haze paint on F5 recco lightnings and now, sort of thing to discuss further: some people have identified Malta schemes as two blue tones, light and dark Mediterranean blue I applied a sepia filter to the picture, and something looking like two shades of blue came out of it not bad isn't it ? I was quite taken by surprise myself Colour pictures often tend to age this way, could be an explanation cheers Marc Edited April 30, 2009 by mark58 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
old_Tonto Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 That looks great Marc, I like what you have done with the colours. Correct me if I am wrong but should the cannon not be positioned in the inside bay for a 'C' wing. Or is this some strange Malta refinement? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mark58 Posted May 1, 2009 Author Share Posted May 1, 2009 (edited) Hi Yes, Malta spitfires are often pictured with the 20mm cannon in the outboard position, this explains the short version A number of them took of from aircraft carriers and flew to Malta with four cannons , but only two remained on the aircraft afterwords Similar thing happened with the machine guns, where the outboard ones were deleted this looks none standard, which makes it an attractive modelling subject the paintschemes are subject to interpretation, but nice to research and to experiment, glad that you like it if there's enough time left, I would like to do a dark mediterranean blue aswell, probably a markVb unfortunately there's not much reference available I have the Osprey aircraft of the aces, spitfire V and Spitfire a complete fighting history, Alfred Price but this is good quality material to start with cheers Marc Edited May 1, 2009 by mark58 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mark58 Posted May 2, 2009 Author Share Posted May 2, 2009 (edited) Hi some progress with the painting the fin flash white and red are painted, the blue is cut out of the decal after decals are applied, the model comes to live the plane is dated summer 42, with the new fuselage roundels markings are for 601 squadron, transfered to Egypt some weeks later cheers Marc Edited May 6, 2009 by mark58 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mark58 Posted May 3, 2009 Author Share Posted May 3, 2009 (edited) Hi the spitfire takes shape matt clearcoat applied on decals final assembly started cheers Marc Edited May 3, 2009 by mark58 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mark58 Posted May 3, 2009 Author Share Posted May 3, 2009 Hi final assembly process nearly completed weathering will follow soon cheers Marc Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mark58 Posted May 3, 2009 Author Share Posted May 3, 2009 Hi and here comes the cool job, weathering cheers Marc Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thom Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 I love the look of this build. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mark58 Posted May 4, 2009 Author Share Posted May 4, 2009 (edited) Hi Here we are, nearly finished with this one still some weathering details to do, but looks like a plane now I'm also working on a diorama set up, base and buildings already completed Products are availble from this site: http://www.mark58.oxatis.com/PBSCCatalog.a...;PBCATName=1/48 cheers Marc Edited May 4, 2009 by mark58 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Doccrazymodel Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 :) Hi Marc, as I`e seen your Spit live in progress, I could not imagine the result. And now I must confess it convince me! Like the aircraft on historical photos it is absolutly perfect taken. The effect is great and with your buildings in background you`ve achieved a nice contrast between both objects. The only criticism will be the missing flora. As a botany maniac I can not stand bak to comment this fact!!! I like this ensemble!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Touvdal Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 (edited) Super build, very interesting camoflage scheme, makes it very interesting, nice display. Absolutely top :) cheers Jes Edited May 6, 2009 by Touvdal Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mark58 Posted May 6, 2009 Author Share Posted May 6, 2009 hi here we are with the first shots done outside with superb natural light "Screwball" Beurling waiting for the huns cheers Marc Quote Link to post Share on other sites
old_Tonto Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 That's a cracking good build and a fun one to follow. Love the diorama. Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mark58 Posted May 9, 2009 Author Share Posted May 9, 2009 (edited) hi Thanks guys another Malta spitfire build started today cheers Marc Edited May 9, 2009 by mark58 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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