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Boldman
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Having just returned to the hobby after a couple of decades, I started seeing ads for the Tamiya Spitfire in 1:32 scale and reading reviews. I remember the first Airfix 1:24 Spit from my youth (I remember holding the HUGE box tightly outside Gravesend Market while my Dad went to fetch the car... such a long wait from there until Christmas day to be able to start building it!!!) so I just could not resist the challenge. So with some subtle persuasion and many dropped hints to my ever-loving, she agreed to contribute the majority of the cost of this expensive kit for my Xmas present.
Sadly she spends most of her time living in Portugal at present, however the fortunate side effect of that is I got several days of totally uninterrupted modelling done during the Xmas holiday and by the beginning of February I had it complete.
So here is my photographic journal of the construction...
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There is one main glaringly obvious mistake here, I forgot the yellow leading edge flashes on the wings. There are decals provided for them but they don't fit well and so I left them off and intended to mask and paint, but I totally forgot in the end.
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Sadly she spends most of her time living in Portugal at present, however the fortunate side effect of that is I got several days of totally uninterrupted modelling done during the Xmas holiday and by the beginning of February I had it complete.
So here is my photographic journal of the construction...
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There is one main glaringly obvious mistake here, I forgot the yellow leading edge flashes on the wings. There are decals provided for them but they don't fit well and so I left them off and intended to mask and paint, but I totally forgot in the end.
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