Dude, great job!! I like what you did to the underside.  

Spitfire Mk.1 P9363 QV-K Flown by Sqn Ldr B Lane, OC No 19 Sqn, September 1940, Battle of Brittain. The aircraft survived the war with two different pilots.

P9386 QV-K was Struck of Charge 9 Feb 1945. Sqn Ldr Lane's Log Books are lodged with the Imperial War Museum London.

I put the pilot in because I was going to display her in the air first.

Steve: Wow! Great work! And you're already ahead of me! 

Comng on nicely there steve, paint job came out well.

And some more.

Bish, here's my progress on the Spit so far mate.

Going to paint the dark green tonight and get the gloss and decals started tomorrow.

oh duh,

Sorry, I must read better.

Thought "It's British" Might do a Tamiya Spit though...

Unfortuantly the mosquito was not built by either of these companies so does not qualify. I will be doing a de haviland GB, but that won't be until 2023.

I have a couple of projects to finish up in the next couple of weeks.

If you don't mind I do have a half built 1/48 MK VI Tamiya Mosquito I'd like to contribute.

Let me know...

I'm soooo close to completing the Akagi. Just working on the crew now and putting my backed-up builds back on the bench including the Spit. Also looking forward to cracking the Walrus box.

I'm way behind too, too many projects and not all of them modeling.

Not much here. Finally got all the seams cleaned up and put down the paint on the underside. Which now I'm looking at her and wish I'd painted the white leading edges first. So I'll mask her backwards there. Will have some photos when I have something worth showing.

Hope everyone else is making good progress.

Anyone got any prgress to report. Still not started my Wimpy yet, had so much on this year i've fallen behind a bit. Hope to start it at the end of June.

Frank: That looks really good! Love the instrument panel.

Bish: Thanks for clearing that up. I've heard of marmite but wasn't sure what it was other than that it was related to vegemite in some form or other.  

Very nice frank. The pit, not marmite.

Marmite? Hmmm. Maybe not. Certainly an acquired taste.

After some delay, the Airfix Spitfire Mk. XIV is back on the bench. Just now finishing up the cockpit and the recon camera. I'll tell ya, sometimes these modern, new tool kits have so much tiny little detail pieces, it can seem like I'm building the actual airplane instead of a model. The interior is Tamiya Cockpit Green.

Gamera

Lol guys!!! I've seen an article online about a guy who masks with the Vegemite!!!

 

It's..... interesting... Piers/LostAgain told me it's an aquired taste. And not to use it for priming since it will block up my airbrush...

 

In the UK we have marmite. Its an old joke that they even use in adverts that you either love it or you hate it. I am deffinetly in the latter group.

Vegimite came about because of disruption in Marmite imports after WW1.

Lol guys!!! I've seen an article online about a guy who masks with the Vegemite!!!

It's..... interesting... Piers/LostAgain told me it's an aquired taste. And not to use it for priming since it will block up my airbrush...

If passed through the food processer it should airbrush quite well, I think.  But I wouldn't know what thinner to recommend.  Probably something with high alcohol content.

Are you planning on applying the vegemite with an airbrush or a hairy stick.

The  is together and I'm priming and sanding to take care of various flaws. I ordered some motivation and it came in Friday. I'm getting firmly in the Aussie state of mind... 

It makes a nice addition to the front page Nick.

Gamera. thank you the camo was a bit fussy with Tamiya sea gray and the Vallejo dark ghost gray I didn't have barley gray. For some reason the Vallejo gray was a bit thicker after I thinned it, I had to spilt hairs thinning and playing with psi .

Bish. thanks again I wanted something different than a spitfire but I do like spitfires alot.

Keavdog. the plastic is soft, some clean up on small parts, seam clean up was not trouble some over all a fun kit.

Steve. Thanks I wanted to glue it on a peice of wood .

John. thanks, after all that clear coats its pretty heavy.

Well done, Nick, it looks great.

Totaly cool Nick. Love the tarmac.

Awesome looking Nick.  How did the kit together?

Now thats stunning Nick, love the look of that grey scheme. Thank you for shareing that here. Will get you on the front page.

Nick: Oh wow! Great job there!!! Love the look of that scheme! 

JBRaider,GAF, Deeve Those are Fantastic spitfires..

This one is done..

1/144 Roden VC-10K4 tanker.

Tamiya med sea gray, clear gloss and flat.

Vallejo dark ghost gray.

Masters touch oil paint wash.

many thanks for watching and your cmments.

Bish thank you for hosting another great GB.

Sergeant

 

 

Bish

Will do gomeral. never herad of the Seagull, just looked it up. I've used plenty of resin AM and built some large scale resin aircraft engines as well as a 35th resin vehicle. But i have not yet tackele one of my resin aircraft. Main advice is to take your time and dry fit twice before commiting to glue.

 

 

 

 

Gomeral, I had never heard anyone say to 'dry-fit twice before commiting to glue', but I 100% agree with Bish. I even do it with styrene parts because I have made so many mistakes in assembly.

 

I retired from bulding construction 7-years ago and taught capentry skills to hundreds of men and women on the job. The first rule is to 'measure twice and cut once' just like Bish said.

Harold

 

I learnt that lesson when building the HPH 1/18th scale DB605 engine. Made a right hash of putting the main engine block together and by the time i realised there was no getting it apart. Fortunatly HPH has superb customer service and sent me new parts at no cost. I have been much more careful with resin ever since.