1/48 Revell Spitfire Mk II (Completed - pg. 6 update)

Thanks lol. I simply needed to add the final shots back into the thread. Thank God most of it was done with PBucket before they sold out, because I had thought I lost all of those progress shots like I have on a lot of my other posts.

Please excuse me for digging up this old post, but the (final) pictures are all missing and I just got this kit back out of storage from my Dad's garage so I took some new ones. It's a shame the site I was using at the time shut down.

This is still one of my favorite competed aircraft builds and I remember enjoying the journey from start to finish. I'm not so upset with how it turned out now that I'm looking at it again for the first time in 3 years. Not bad for a bunch of scratch built greeblies and a bit of artistic license. 

Definitely go with the Eduard! It builds into a much better looking model. :)

This old Revell is a challenge and nowhere near as detailed out of the box.

I think you did a great job!  I keep seeing this kit at Hobbylobby and want to purchase it but then I ran across Eduards offering and think I might run with that one.  Again though, looks really good!!

Thank you.  :) I still need to fix that ridiculous chipping lol.

With the windscreen, remember to cut the masks first and then remove them before you glue them on. If any glue gets under the tape you'll have a huge mess on your hands. After that, add the masks and then putty, sand, primer. That's the tricky part!

Making new frames isn't nearly as hard as it looks when all you have to do is square up the pieces (sand them even so they match up - angles and such) and glue some sheet plastic to the edges of them. Wait for the glue to cure and carve out the extra plastic and sand smooth. Remember to mask before sanding, you don't want to scratch your canopy!

If you need any help, P.M. me and I'll do my best to help you through it.

Hopefully my pictures give enough information to get you through that modification without too much trouble.

Another piece of art, sir. I am still working on my Spit...if you call letting it sit in it's box for 3 weeks. I have your thread "bookmarked" because I am at the "canopy" stage. going to try your fix. Again, great work.

No worries Max. I do it all the time too. Sometimes up to 15 minutes of detailed information gets truncated because I hit the back button instead of the post button lol.

That is soooo frustrating! I bet it happens more often to more of us than we know lol.

OK, I'm losin' my mind. I did comment a few days ago on your fine job and lookin' good but I see I didn't hit submit. I'm claiming it was the sites fault or some other lame excuse. It gets worse they say, lol. Anyway, belated compliment!

Max

Oh tell me about it! Lol!!

These modern kits are going to spoil me. But on the other hand, the wheel wells shouldn't have been green either and thats MY lack of research.

Not so great when you have to do the manufacturers research for them! Just goes to show

Thanks Chris. Yes I know that's not where the radio goes, but that's where Revell put it and I just went with it. I could've changed it at the time, but I didn't want to scratch build the bulkheads. Chalk it up to laziness, lol.

Mike

Dont know how I missed thIs wip  but that is some fine scratch and paint work.  

I hate to throw a spanner in the works, especially as you've made such a beautiful job of it, but you've got the radio in completely the wrong place. The hatch on the left side of the fuselage behind the cockpit is the radio hatch, and the space behind the pilot's seat should be just that - a space. You should just see the inside faces of the fuselage, with a couple of gas cylynders attached to the walls. Sorry, but I only just saw your posts for the first time, or I would have said something whilst you were still at the cockpit building stage. Beautiful build otherwise

Joe, Mike, so sorry I didn't see your posts. Thank you! 

Now, my apologies for dragging this post up from the depths, but I got some new pictures that are much better than the last ones I posted. Unfortunately these pictures show what a lackluster job I did on this one with the weathering. :P The chipping looks naff.

Well... That.... Is better.  :/

That really came out great!

Mike

silentbob33

Looks pretty good to me Mike! Looks to me like that extra effort paid off for you.

 

Thanks, Bob. I really wish, in retrospect, that i had not scribed the wing gun acess panels so dang deep or as wide because I think that's the one thing I did that detracts from the overall efforts applied. I think they look terrible. Wish I had left them alone.

jgeratic

Brandon, excellent work on the Spitfire, I believe  you have captured the essence of this early fighter.

I could be wrong about the underside colour, perhaps Bader's mount was a one off with a regular grey paint?  Sky Type S had a noticeable green tint to it, but maybe your camera didn't capture this?  If so, skip the remaining of this response ...

One thing I hate about Vallejo labelling is sometimes it doesn't match the paint you are looking for.   I know their foray in RAF paint sets has taken a second round with their Model Air series, and have finally labeled a Sky Type S as such.  In their first set, they would have you use 71.103 GREY RLM84, a German paint!   Though it does have it matched with FS 34424, which does seem to be a popular value quoted for RAF undersides.

Now you say you prefer using regular vallejo paints, so a closer choice would have been VAL70.885 PASTEL GREEN.  It has the same FS value associated it as mentioned above.

regards,

Jack

 

 

Thank you for the compliment! I used the period photgraphs for reference on the weathering. I still think its a bit exaggerated, but its pretty close in some viewing angles.

As to the color, I will tell you Revell would have me paint the bottom of the plane in "Sky Blue" which in my collection would be way too blue and have no green tint to it at all. I chose Sky Grey because it was available to me and looked (in my mind) to be more appropriate. It does have a very slight tint of blue hue to it, but again no green at all.

Following the Revell instructions I'd have a very brightly painted Spitfire with a light blue underside and a white nose and tail band. Not quite the way I imagine it should look at all.

So my color choices were more artistic and personally chosen for how I wanted this plane to look in my collection, more than historical accuracy. (hence the soft color transitions in the upper camouflage pattern)

I hope that covers it adequately. :)

Brandon, excellent work on the Spitfire, I believe  you have captured the essence of this early fighter.

I could be wrong about the underside colour, perhaps Bader's mount was a one off with a regular grey paint?  Sky Type S had a noticeable green tint to it, but maybe your camera didn't capture this?  If so, skip the remaining of this response ...

One thing I hate about Vallejo labelling is sometimes it doesn't match the paint you are looking for.   I know their foray in RAF paint sets has taken a second round with their Model Air series, and have finally labeled a Sky Type S as such.  In their first set, they would have you use 71.103 GREY RLM84, a German paint!   Though it does have it matched with FS 34424, which does seem to be a popular value quoted for RAF undersides.

Now you say you prefer using regular vallejo paints, so a closer choice would have been VAL70.885 PASTEL GREEN.  It has the same FS value associated it as mentioned above.

regards,

Jack

That's a fine looking Spit, Mike.

Nice job and thanks for sharing your WIP.

1943Mike

Looks good to me Mike. I think you did a fine job.

 

Thank you.  :)

BrandonK

Excellent, Sir !! You took your time and it paid off is spades. NICE !!!

BK

 

Thank you , Brandon.  :) 

Excellent may be a bit of a stretch though lol.

Thanks.

Yeah I know about it, but I thought it was over already. Besides, this T-Bolt is going to take a lot of work. Everything needs to be rescribed and I have an average of 4 hours a week to work on my builds. That's a tough one.

I'll see where I'm at after I finish up my T-90.  ;)

Excellent, Sir !! You took your time and it paid off is spades. NICE !!!

BK

Looks good to me Mike. I think you did a fine job.

Thank you, Piper.

I don't think its great, but 6 months from now I'll look back and maybe think so. lol

I'm pretty bad about being critical of my own builds. We all are to some degree.

Thank you, again. :)