Spitfire mk V

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September 23, 2014
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September 23, 2014
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September 23, 2014
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September 23, 2014
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September 23, 2014
First try with the new airbrush, having fun with preshade!
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September 23, 2014
Remofing blue tac mask, first time that I used this tecnick
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September 23, 2014
I love the result!
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September 23, 2014
I have to tied up some spots but so far so good!
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September 23, 2014
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December 3, 2014
landing gears
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December 3, 2014
exhaust drilled
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December 3, 2014
decals on
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December 3, 2014
decals on
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December 3, 2014
decals on
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December 3, 2014
decals on
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March 8, 2015
Exhaust was painted with Mr. Metal color (iron and dark iron) buffables, and than weathered with some tamiya pigments
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March 8, 2015
The cannons are the Master ones, if you want them to last and have a perfect shape, is a must-to-have
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March 8, 2015
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
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March 8, 2015
The light behind the mast I just painted silver
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March 8, 2015
Elevators posed down..., definitively will be training to improve and use this more often in the future, I love the result!
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March 8, 2015
I left the patches for the machine guns closed as it was ready to go for the next mission
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March 8, 2015
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...
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March 8, 2015
Closer look to the exaust stains and chipping effect, the pigments used are from Tamiya weathering master, sets A and B
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March 8, 2015
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
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March 8, 2015
Chipping was carried out wigh prismacolor pencil and revell aqua color acrylics silver 90 in some poits to get deaper efect
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March 8, 2015
weathering done with Tamiya panel line accent (dark brown and black) and tamiya weathering master pigments
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March 8, 2015
I lost the antenna mast and I had to scrach building it with styrene
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March 8, 2015
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
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March 8, 2015
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?
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March 8, 2015
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
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March 8, 2015
little bit of photoshop
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March 8, 2015
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...

Cesar Muniz
hi Gordon, thanks a lot, I am building this OOB (the only change was the cannon of Spitfire that is metal). I will do the markings that came with the kits, the Hurricane I am painting using only Revell aqua color (exatly the ones in the manual) and the spitfire I am using Tamiya, they have the same painting so this is one experiment to see the diferences in using bough, I will be uploading pics from the Hurricane soon.

24 September 2014, 08:54

Augie
nice little build 🙂

8 March 2015, 21:57

Es-haq Khosravi
Awsome!

8 March 2015, 23:26

John E
Really, really nice!

9 March 2015, 03:38

Hanno Kleinecke
Excellent build and paintjob ! I like the subtle weathering as well. What did you use for masking the yellow stripes at the leading edge ?
I use Tamiya tape, but it always turns out slightly " jagged " in 72nd .

9 March 2015, 06:34

Cesar Muniz
Hi people! Thanks for the kind comments!, Hanno, I used exactly the Tamiya tape, in this scale you have to be very careful, I cutted the tape's edge to be sure there will be no glue or dust on the way but just a fresh and tight edge, and I paited using Tamiya acrylic diluted in 50/50 mix, very thin and light layers, drying off them so there's no floading paint running along the tape like a wash, after remove the tape, I sanded off a bit of the step with a 1500 grade sanding paper and buffed the area a bit, I was fortunate that the XF-3 is a very close match to the decal's rondel, in the hurricane I didn't checked this out and they doesn't match at all :-/

9 March 2015, 12:34