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Not much bench time today but I filled and cleaned up some joints, glued the rudder and elevators in place and it’s now looking more Spitfire shaped;
I was a bit surprised by the joints on the top and bottom of the cowling but these were filled with superglue and was accelerator used to speed up the drying time, after which the joints were sanded down until I wa...
After reading a few posts about Gaahleri airbrushes and the fact they are a very good price on Amazon UK at the moment, I’ve bought one;
Reason being that although I own two Fengda airbrushes, I managed to cross-thread the nozzle when replacing it after cleaning so that was binned (after stripping it of spares) and the other is on a second set of ‘O’ rings after...
After a VERY frustrating day dealing with the UK tax people it was nice to get back to the bench, if only for a couple of hours.
I got the final details of the cockpit fitted so it was glued into the fuselage;
For what you’ll be able to see of the cockpit it’s good enough for me. I then cleaned the paint from the edges of the fuselage then glued ...
Again a day where I didn’t get as much bench time as I would have liked however the cockpit has been sprayed, received a pin wash of sepia oil paint and just needs some details painting before I can glue it into place before closing up the fuselage;
I was going to fill the top engine cover and underside of the nose as there are fairly significant gaps on both bu...
Many many years ago I built the Heller 1/72 Spitfire XVIe and finished it in the markings of RW396 F*JWL from the RAF Central Gunnery School, basically because it was an overall silver rather than camouflage.
The model has long gone from the collection but after seeing one built by one of my model-making friends last year I thought about doing it again as a trip do...
