Spitfire mk V

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First try with the new airbrush, having fun with preshade! 

Remofing blue tac mask, first time that I used this tecnick 

I love the result! 

I have to tied up some spots but so far so good! 

 

landing gears 

exhaust drilled 

decals on 

decals on 

decals on 

decals on 

Exhaust was painted with Mr. Metal color (iron and dark iron) buffables, and than weathered with some tamiya pigments 

The cannons are the Master ones, if you want them to last and have a perfect shape, is a must-to-have 

The mirror in the top of the canopy cames from Italeri kit, there are 2 tipes of them over there, so I used the spare one from a version that I will not build 

The light behind the mast I just painted silver 

Elevators posed down..., definitively will be training to improve and use this more often in the future, I love the result! 

I left the patches for the machine guns closed as it was ready to go for the next mission 

The aerial cable are from coper wire 0,05 found in one eletric repair store, but i think I should had painted with one lighter shade, one dark gray instead of the black, could had looked not so strong... 

Closer look to the exaust stains and chipping effect, the pigments used are from Tamiya weathering master, sets A and B 

The main camo was painted with Tamiya acrylics, XF-80, SF-81, XF-82 , the sky/duck egg in the spinner and rear fuselage are from Revell Aqua color 

Chipping was carried out wigh prismacolor pencil and revell aqua color acrylics silver 90 in some poits to get deaper efect 

weathering done with Tamiya panel line accent (dark brown and black) and tamiya weathering master pigments 

 

I lost the antenna mast and I had to scrach building it with styrene 

The canopy is not briliang and it´s thikness and magnifying efect hide the interior detail, and it can´t be displayed opened, so it is pointless to use photoetch 

The light under the wing was just one empty hole, after paint it I cuted and shaped one small acetate in that place. the downside of this kit though is the misshape of this area, were is the distinctive "inverted gull wing" Revell? 

The decals responded very well to Revell setting solution and looks like painted in the complicaded surface, no bubles and all rivets are there, thumbs up for Revell 

 

little bit of photoshop 

 

The shape of the intakes doesn´t look very accurate in the Revell kit, but I´ll live with this one, soon I will do the Italeri one that looks more realistic, And by the way, they have the inverted gull wing...