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1/72 Special Hobby Supermarine Spitfire F Mk.21

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    April 2014
1/72 Special Hobby Supermarine Spitfire F Mk.21
Posted by Grant Dalzell on Saturday, December 5, 2015 8:57 PM

A guy asked me to build this for a gift to a friend for Xmas, the kit is not too bad, the problems I found were the front windscreen/canopy is a poor fit to the fuselage and needed putty, and the fuselage to wing roots are a bad fit, which needed sanding and scraping to get them to fit. You also need to stretch sprue to make antenna, which is weird as there are plenty of small parts on the sprues, so no reason why they could not have moulded them in.

The aircraft is from 600 (City of London) squadron, RAuxAF, RAF station Biggin Hill, U.K. 1946

paints used- main camo is Tamiya acrylics, also used Gunze Mr metalizers. Flory dark dirt wash and Vallejo polyurethane matte varnish.

Kit decals are good and set well with some micro sol.

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Northern California
Posted by jeaton01 on Saturday, December 5, 2015 11:38 PM

That's pretty, Grant.

John

To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

 

  • Member since
    June 2014
Posted by BrandonK on Sunday, December 6, 2015 2:52 PM

I wouldn't have guessed that was 1/72. Nicely done indeed!

BK

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A lot !! And I mean A LOT!!

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    November 2015
Posted by The Migrant on Sunday, December 6, 2015 3:39 PM

Nice work Grant, I like that a lot Yes

Mike G

Western Canada

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    April 2005
  • From: Piscataway, NJ!
Posted by wing_nut on Sunday, December 6, 2015 5:37 PM
Really nice job.

Marc  

  • Member since
    November 2003
  • From: Naples, FL
Posted by tempestjohnny on Sunday, December 6, 2015 7:59 PM
Very nicely done

 

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