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These are two kits I have been working on. The Mirage 2000 in the old Monogram kit that I started years ago. I re scribed most of the panel lines in it, the second kit i have done this on. Hopefully I will get better at this because it is not very easy to do at this point I had entered this kit on the procrastinators GB along with several other kits, but still have not finished yet.... the high point of this kit for me is the cockpit, so I tried to get several close ups. I have a few more small details to tend to and then she will be finished.
Second up is a Revell 1/32 Spitfire Mk I, a kit dating back to the late 1960s. I started this one at the beginning of last summer planning to add details that the kit was missing, but then lost enthusiasm for the project. Then came the FSM article a few months back, and I pulled it out and resumed building ( I had only completed some of the interior and the engine so far). I have added interior framework using strip styrene, a shelf for the radio from sheet styrene, and scratch built a couple of tanks using sprue and brass.
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I like that Mirage a lot, camo looks very well done. Just about there, keep going my friend! Spitfire is coming along smoothly too. There was a fellow on another forum who recently completed this kit and it really made me want to build one now!
Frank
Nice job on the Mirage, I don't see anything that obviously screams "I re-scribed the lines". Can't wait to see how the Spit progresses. Is there re-scribing to be done there too? I'm not familiar with the kit. I've got an old 1/48 Spitfire from Revell in the stash, a Christmas present from a few years back. Maybe I can try using it as a first-time panel line project.
Vance
On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister
The Mirage looks great. Nice detail work on the Spit.
Regards, Rick
A hearty "Bravo Zulu" for digging into the Revell Spitfire and the scrap box... I have that same kt on the bench for a diorama of a crashed Spitfire and the Wirbelwind that brought it down. I'm converting the Spit to a Mk V, and did the same thing to the interior of it. (It didn't make it into the "1,000 Roadwheels GB", but it's still going...)
Thanks for the encouragement guys. My first attempt at re scribing a kit was the old Monogram P-51B kit. That one was more easily done I think due to the simpler panel lines and shape of surfaces. But I gotta admit the lines came out on the heavy side.The Mirage has a LOT of subtle curves that were a bear on my scribing template.
The Spitfire kit, is certainly a diamond in the rough in my view. Externally, Revell really got that one right over 40 years ago. Especially in regards to the surface detail. A mixture of raised and recessed rivets. When I compare it to photos of the real Spit, that is exactly how it is. With a little TLC and attention to detail I think it will really shine. Its kind of turning in to a minor obsession and labor of love for me.
Hans, I remember you talking about that dio. Looking forward to seeing it.
Excellent display of work, Stik!
The Mirage looks great and looking forward to seeing the Spit finished!
I don't remember the rules for the Battle of Britain GB on already started kits but I'm assuming you don't want to wait to April to enter it?
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
No, I think I will be doing a 109 for the BoB GB. I have had an old Matchbox 1/32 kit in my stash since '82 or so and it is time to build it... I fianlly found photos of markings of one really not normally seen in an Osprey book. Be nice to have 32nd Spit and Emil displayed.
Excellent job on the Mirage my friend, she's coming along nicely. Nice bit of scratching on the Spit too!
Marcus
Stik,
Great work on both subjects. I remember the Mirage 2000 with great fondness and am very happy to see the kit built so well. Bravo on the re-scribed panel lines.
I am really impressed with your scratchbuilding work on the Spitfire. Please keep the WIP photo's coming.
Cheers!
The Spit's ready for positioning on the dio base, but I'm having a REAL hard time doing one last thing to it (as the finishing touch to the "crash damage" )... Holding it over a candle and pulling the fuselage apart aft of the 'pit... I just can't QUITE bring myself to do it... Yet...
It's kinda like the derelect P-47 I'm doing... Right after I cut the fuselage off forward of the wings, I IMMEDIATELY wished I hadn't done it, lol...
I know what you mean... you pass the point of no return. But that derelict Jug looks so good!
Hans,
Are you using an original Revell 1/32 Spit Mk I, or are you using the FAA Seafire Mk I version as a basis for your V? As I remember from many years back, the Seafire had the Stokes air filter and the cannon-equipped B or C wing.
WIP: Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 73rd BS B-26, 40-1408, torpedo bomber attempt on Ryujo
Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 22nd BG B-26, 7-Mile Drome, New Guinea
Minicraft 1/72 B-24D as LB-30, AL-613, "Tough Boy", 28th Composite Group
Revell Mk I... The only major vis-mod re-work I'm doing is scratchbuilding the Mk V exhaust stacks... Cutting twenty-four pieces of Q-tip tubing is proving quite tedious...
that derelict Jug looks so good!
Thanks, Pard.. BTW, that Spit's panel is PERFECT for using the white paint/black Sharpie method of painting that I ddescribed earlier...
Nice work on both planes. The finish on the Mirge is superb. You have a good start on the detail for the big Spit. At that scale, you just about HAVE to add some detail.
Darwin, O.F.
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The B-52 and me, we have grown old, gray and overweight together.
You are very right Darwin! The Revell kit is a nice Starting point and I am haveing fun just looking up stuff and seeing where I can add things. I am not going for an exact representation as much as I am trying to "busy it up". Much of what I have done will barely be even visible without a light, but it will give the impression that there is lots of stuff there to see. I added some linkage rods coming back from the stick and the rudder pedals, since the cockpit has no floor, but once the seat is in place, you cant really even see them either...
Well the Mirage is completed but I plod on with the Spit....
And here are the latest pics. I put on a coat of Model Master Acrylic British Cockpit Green over all interior parts that may be visible in the fuelsage and lower wing, and a coat of Modle Master Aircraft Interior Black on the instruemnt panel and the radio. I added a few brass rods to represent linkage for the rudder pedals and the control column. here are a few shots of the engine so far. I had to fill in the lower sides of the exhaust stacks and finished the engine block in Humbrol Satin Black. The top side of the engine is pretty devoid of all detail that should be there, but would not be visible unless the upper cowling is removed.
More to follow as progress is made...
Looks great Skit, never seen a finished build from you before.
Andrew
Looking good, especially the engine.
thats a nice looking Mirage, very well done That Spit looks daunting you must have more patience than i..............much more...
Julez72 That Spit looks daunting ... you must have more patience than i..............much more...
That Spit looks daunting ... you must have more patience than i..............much more...
I've built that kit at least five times since the 60s.. Nothing to it, really...
Stik's doin' it real justice with the scratch-building.. The kit's a dream to super-detail, plenty of room to work in, no really complicated shapes to make, just straight-forward gizmology...
Hans von Hammer The kit's a dream to super-detail, plenty of room to work in, no really complicated shapes to make, just straight-forward gizmology...
The kit's a dream to super-detail, plenty of room to work in, no really complicated shapes to make, just straight-forward gizmology...
That it is... These old 1/32 its are great for that!
It's looking great stik, reminds me a lot of the Revell 1/48th version... just bigger.
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On the Tarmac: 1/48 Revell P-38
In the Hanger: A bunch of kits
Thanks Reasoned! I really like the exterior detail on this kit and the interior is a nice bare canvas... great learning experience for me.
Reasoned It's looking great stik, reminds me a lot of the Revell 1/48th version... just bigger.
It pretty much is, except that the 1/48th kit has no moving control surfaces or removable cowl panels, and the walls inside the gear bays are there... The two kit's cockpits are almost identical, except the 1/48th has the throttle and undercart controls molded into the sidewalls..
Glad to see this one back on your bench. Keep us posted.
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