A piece in Loving Memory.
I thought I'd put a few photos of my latest up, though it's still a little personal. It's an entirely fictional piece, done for my father. This past May we saw the passing of my younger brother, Ross, after an 18 year fight with Multiple Sclerosis, at the age of 37. My father had likened the 18 year struggle to watching a pilot wounded and dropping, and being able to do nothing. I wanted to do something for him to remember Ross prior to the disease, so I took his favorite plane, the Spitfire, and dressed it in a B scheme. I decided then to personalize it, using Ross' name as the radio call letters, and in a nod to his Canadian birth, I changed the roundels to RCAF roundels. Finally, I used his birthdate for the serial numbers. I've set it on a small wooden board, and not pictured, I've made a wood and plexiglass cover for the piece.
I used Aires resin wheels, Eduard fabric belts, AML B scheme camo masks, Maketer RAF and RCAF masks for letters, roundels and fin flashes. I used a CMK Merlin engine, Vallejo paints througout and Flory washes for the panel lines. Eduard's etch added those little details here and there, speaker wire strands made my main gear brake lines and added a little bit to the Merlin engine. I scrounged a decent kill tally out of an old decal sheet, I figure you don't get to fight that long without a good kill record.
Thanks for looking.
Andrew
