Frank & John: Those are both coming along great!!!

A few more steps on the Wellesley, some filling of wing seams with Aves Epoxyclay, and the elevators have been separated from the stabilizers, reset at a down angle, and installed on the fuselage.  Epoxyclay was used to smooth out and shape the stabilizer/elevator hinge line.  This kit is made out of very hard plastic, thread was not equal to cutting the tailplanes apart, had to use the JLC saw and an Exacto knife on these.

John: Nice work. The cut stabs came out really well.

Well, since the Hasegawa Spitfire Mk VIII has moved out to the paint bench, I was going to start the ARII Mk VIII. The kit only cost me a dollar at a show. I shoulda looked in the box first. Some vital parts are missing. Oh well. On to the next kit.

Eagle90. its a good kit, but with mine had some trouble with the prop.

John. looks good so far. You got the bull by the horns now !

Foto Frank.looks real good from here.

My latest pics closed up more seams and the fueling things? on the underside waiting on other RAF decals for this hold off on primering for  now.

fotofrank

Well, since the Hasegawa Spitfire Mk VIII has moved out to the paint bench, I was going to start the ARII Mk VIII. The kit only cost me a dollar at a show. I shoulda looked in the box first. Some vital parts are missing. Oh well. On to the next kit.

 

I know that feeling frank. guess it could come in handy for spares.

Coming on nicely there Nick.

Looks like your getting to grips with the Wellesley John. Its looks like hard plastic just from the pictures.

Nick: Oh cool, she's starting to really look like a jet liner now! 

Frank: What parts are you missing? I can check my spare parts box, not sure I'd have what you need but you never know. 

Both sets of my decals came in. Still not sure which one I'm going to use.

I didn't notice that LostAgain wasn't starting the RAAF GB until March 1st so I'm going to halt work here until then.

Sorry for the delays in the pics.  Got busy at work.  Here are some pics from the past couple of days.  I should be done with it today!  Enjoy!

Gamera, i like Hava Go Jo.

The RAAF GB starts on the 31st March. But i am sure you can find plenty to do until then.

Coming on nicely there Bobby, you have made quick work of that.

Nice looking spitfire and the prop looks better then mine too

Thank you guys!  This was a fun kit to build.  It had a few fit issues but nothing bad and the sheme was fun to do.  Here it is all finished!  Bish....thank you so much for hosting yet another great GB!  I look forward to doing the Mess. GB next!  I leave the final pic for posting up to you sir.  Enjoy!

I'm in a holding pattern with the Wellesley until the resin engine and the vac canopy set arrive, but I was looking in the box and saw that the instrument panel was still in it.  Well, that's good because it's better than it being lost, but I had already glued the fuselage together.  So I had to do what you see in the picture below.  It's all back together now, but sheesh...

Nicely done Bobby, and first to finish. Thats a good looking build there, and nice to seeing you trying out a base. Cheers mate.

Thats was lucky John, at least you only had to remove a small piece.

Good looking build Bobbie! The Spit has such great lines, Don't care for the cliped wing version though.

John, I've never done that before  That happened with my Swordfish build. I spent hours and lost much hair trying to get the IP set through the nose 

Bobby: That's some fine lookin' work!!! Kudos sir!!!

John: I know the feeling there. The F-51D I did for John 3:16's Korean War GB I'd cemented the wings together and THEN noticed I needed to drill out the rocket mounting holes from the inside. So I carefully pried them back apart. Thankfully they only broke at one point.

Bish: Thanks! Will take that under consideration. Piers already corrected me on the date, I'm getting more and more horrible about remembering dates for stuff... (sigh).

Having nice weather this week so time to paint. Shot primer on the Spit Mk VIII this morning and all the various fiddley parts as well. Used Model Master gray enamel primer thinned 2/1. It'll sit for a day before I do some pre-shading then on to the BoB camouflage.

Looking good frank.

I am having difficulty identifying some of the Vallejo colors to use on my Spitfire Mk-IIa. I was able to identify the Dark Earth Brown and Dark Green, but the two shades of light blue have me confused.

The first picture below is from my Eduards instruction booklet that shows what color to use for the band of light blue at the rear of the fuselage. It is 'Light Bluegreen, H417, C117 and MMP 051' The other light blue color is used underneath the wings and fuselage. It is 'Sky, H74, C368, MMP 080'.

I am not familiar with Eduards color codes, can someone help me identify the correct Vallejo match for the two light blue colors?

Below is the color chart from my Vallejo paint set. It has two options for underneath the wings and fuselage. Either 'Eau Nil "D.E. Green" or Duck Egg Blue'. Duck Egg Blue is Vallejo #71.404, and it is only available in their paint set. I have Vallejo #71.302 Sky Type S which looks similar, but I am not sure it is the same as Duck Egg Blue.

Hello Harold, just your luck you chose the RAF period of 1940 when the underside colour scheme went through a number of changes.   This is a good primer here:

https://boxartden.com/reference/gallery/index.php/Camouflage-Markings/Supermarine-Spitfire

Basically, during the first week of June, a new underside colour was issued, known as Sky Type S.   Prior to this, it was the half night(black) and white scheme.  

There was a shortage of this new paint, so fighter squadrons began applying different colours that may have been considered acceptable matches.  Some mixed their own paints, or acquiring paints that looked similar - or by way of verbal expression seemed to match by description like "duck egg blue".   By end of August or early September 1940, it's considered the majority of fighters sported the proper paint.

So which squadron and time frame are you looking at?

regards,

Jack

jgeratic

Hello Harold, just your luck you chose the RAF period of 1940 when the underside colour scheme went through a number of changes.   This is a good primer here:

https://boxartden.com/reference/gallery/index.php/Camouflage-Markings/Supermarine-Spitfire

Basically, during the first week of June, a new underside colour was issued, known as Sky Type S.   Prior to this, it was the half night(black) and white scheme.  

There was a shortage of this new paint, so fighter squadrons began applying different colours that may have been considered acceptable matches.  Some mixed their own paints, or acquiring paints that looked similar - or by way of verbal expression seemed to match by description like "duck egg blue".   By end of August or early September 1940, it's considered the majority of fighters sported the proper paint.

 

So which squadron and time frame are you looking at?

 

regards,

Jack

 

Harold

Bader's Spitfire P7966 definitely should have the Sky Type S undersides.  Now the spinner and fuselage band should be this same paint, but it's not the first time I've seen model instruction/artwork suggesting a lighter blue. 

Could be just fresh paint or lighting creating the difference between undersides and band colours.  Will do some further searches about this ...

regards,

Jack

jgeratic

Bader's Spitfire P7966 definitely should have the Sky Type S undersides.  Now the spinner and fuselage band should be this same paint, but it's not the first time I've seen model instruction/artwork suggesting a lighter blue. 

Could be just fresh paint or lighting creating the difference between undersides and band colours.  Will do some further searches about this ...

 

regards,

Jack

 

Harold

Hello Harold, yes I do believe I can make out the crown part of the badge in your uncle's photo, though it seems a bit different style.   I find it difficult to make out the RAF logo surrounded by the wreath?

Concerning the paint colour of the spinner and fuselage band, as mandated these should be the same as the undersides - Sky Type S.  Past threads on the subject over at Britmodeller has the hivemind in a bit of debate as to what they are seeing in photographs.   The spinner was suppose to have been pre-painted at the facility where they were made, before shipping off to aircraft manufacturing plants.  Fuselage bands were also painted at aircraft assembly, before delivering to squadrons.

regards,

Jack

jgeratic

Hello Harold, yes I do believe I can make out the crown part of the badge in your uncle's photo, though it seems a bit different style.   I find it difficult to make out the RAF logo surrounded by the wreath?

Concerning the paint colour of the spinner and fuselage band, as mandated these should be the same as the undersides - Sky Type S.  Past threads on the subject over at Britmodeller has the hivemind in a bit of debate as to what they are seeing in photographs.   The spinner was suppose to have been pre-painted at the facility where they were made, before shipping off to aircraft manufacturing plants.  Fuselage bands were also painted at aircraft assembly, before delivering to squadrons.

regards,

Jack

 

Regarding my Uncle's wings. After I posted a picture of him I realized that he never left the Royal Canadian Air Force. His service number changed when he was commissioned to Flying Officer, but he was always in the Royal Canadian Air Force as evident by his casualty notice.

Therefore his wings would be slightly different than those of an RAF pilot as shown below.