Autumn/Winter 2010/11 Group Build Under Construction Thread, GB not GB 1/72 BoB entry, Airfix Spitfire in Group Builds; OK, Novembers here and so my spitfire gets unbagged and cleaned ready for paint and assembly.
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GB not GB 1/72 BoB entry, Airfix Spitfire
OK, Novembers here and so my spitfire gets unbagged and cleaned ready for paint and assembly.
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m1ks's Gallery
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Your showing off now, building and driving. 
, just started mine last night but already in trouble, stuck more bits to my fingers than each other, didn't realise how small 1/72 kits were.
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A good test of your modelling skills then!
Always a shock to see the bits fall out of the bag of a 1/72nd fighter. Good fun though!
“Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days"
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Fuselage inners painted along with seat / base and pilot, didn't bother with any detail for the inner, as there is none to begin with and i'm modelling this one landing gear retracted in flight, (which is a rarity for me)
Briefly toyed with the idea of leaving the face unpainted, as per pic and have one of James Camerons Avatars flying, then I remembered it's supposed to be a BoB and I don't think weird blue aliens flew spitfires? 
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I confess I cheated, I actually parked before I satarted building 
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Update
Fuselage halves tailplane and wings fitted, glue drying here.
During assembly, (as is all too often the case), the wee fiddly little antenna thingummy, (see I know all the technical names), under the port side wing pinged gracefully from my tweezers across the room never to be found, (until i've completed the build and paint naturally), so a quick fiddle with a flat number tag from the sprue and a piece of stretched sprue and et voila, one scratch built thingummy wotsit.
A couple of smears of filler at wing roots and where the front and rear meet underneath, gaps weren't bad for an old airfix mould, (I reckon it's been rejigged a little to be honest, I don't recall everything fitting so well when i was younger).
The one real annoyance so far is the tailplane and rudder are twisted, (apparent in the top view pic below), slightly to the right, Initially when setting the wing dihedral, (I go for looks about right BTW, not that I measure angles or anything), I've pondered taking a hot air gun to it and try to twist it but then if I mess it up further i'll be really annoyed, might just go with it, the odd thing is it must have been same both sides of the mould as there was no twisting one side when gluing them, possibly a production line prob?
Last edited by m1ks; 07-11-2010 at 10:14.
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That's a nice little Spitfire you've got going there. I've seen the movie "The Battle of Britain" and there were definitely no blue aliens in it lol.
The thingummyjig that you broke and so elegantly fixed is the pitot tube,a device for measuring air speed.
Cheers
Steve
“Die Sonne scheint noch”—”The sun still shines.” Last words of Sophie Scholl....If you don't know her,look her up.
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Originally Posted by
stona 
That's a nice little Spitfire you've got going there. I've seen the movie "The Battle of Britain" and there were definitely no blue aliens in it lol.
The thingummyjig that you broke and so elegantly fixed is the pitot tube,a device for measuring air speed.
Cheers
Steve
That's clearly becuase James Cameron didn't direct!, I dread to think what might have occurred if Stanley Kubrik got his hands on it.
Ahh, so that's where the Pitot tube lives on these, I never really gave it much thought though i've glued numerous ones on Spitfires and Hurricanes, I always assumed they were related to the radio along with the washing line on the roof, which apprently double as a handy antenna, clever eh.
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Some nice work on James May's Spitfire.
Have fun, John
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Thankyou, just finished sanding the wing roots and managed to lose some detail on one wing so will have to try and rescribe hopefully will prime them tomorrow.
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Coming along nicely.
I like the scratch building on the pitot tube. I bet the original will turn up as soon as the model is finished, it usually does with me!
Ron
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