Greetings,
ww2psycho has graciously allowed me to join the build, even though I'm a few months late to the party. I figured I was building the kit anyway, so I might as well share. I'm doing Tamiya's 1/48th Spitfire Mk I, done up in the markings and red spinner of No. 66 Squadron Leader Rupert "Lucky" Leigh. I picked up an Extradecal sheet for this kit after my first experience with cardboard-thick Tamiya decals on a previous build.
It'll also be my first experience with resin parts, having picked up a seat, prop/spinner and exhausts from Ultracast. I immediately found I wasn't prepared for how delicate these parts were, and my first act was to snap off the Sutton harness above the seat, never to be found again. I may try to fabricate a replacement if I get ambitious.
I'd thought about painting the seat in some sort of brown to simulate the Bakelite or whatever plastic was used for many Spitfire seats, but I determined that this plane first flew in January 1940, when the seats were still metal, so interior green it was.
Here are a couple of more shots of progress so far. Just before taking these pictures, I went to retrieve the cockpit from the kitchen table where I'm forced to work at the moment, and discovered to my horror that it was gone. Apparently, the cats didn't pay attention to my stern warnings to not play with my toys. I eventually found it behind one of the litter boxes. In three pieces. Fortunately, nothing had snapped and I was able to make it right fairly easily. But I really do need to find friendlier modeling quarters soon.