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jonghwan Lee
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Airfix 1/48 Spitfire Mk.I ‘Dunkirk-Eternal landing’

July 5, 2018 · in Aviation · · 16 · 2.7K

Hello modelers,
This work represents an impressive scene of the movie "Dunkirk".
It is possible to reproduce the precise cockpit well even if it is painted well with no photo-etched parts.
The kits fit very well, but the surface is somewhat empty and the rivets are engraved with rivet rollers.
I used stencils to mark all the markings, including the roundel and the code letter, to reproduce the plane in the movie.
Thank you for your interest and watching.

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16 responses

  1. Very nice. How did you make the serial number stencils?

    • Thank you! I use personal cutting plotter for stencil mask.

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  2. Nice job, my friend...I like it.

  3. Very impressive. Outstanding rivet work..that must of taken some patience. Nice paint work. Overall at nice build.

    • Thank you so much!
      The rivet work just taken an hour with my riveter.

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  4. A nice clean build, and you have a pretty steady hand to cut those small numbers out as stencils!

    • Thank you sir!
      I got the help of my cutting plotter for the stencil.

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  5. I like it as everyone else does, but would love to know how you posed it.

    • Thank you so much!
      I put a brass rod into the landing gear to fix the plane to the base.

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  6. Great scene, great work and inspirational! Well done sir

  7. Can’t agree more. Excellent work. Nice work on the cockpit. I hate working with PE parts myself and you nailed it.

  8. Lovely build, Jonghwan. Great eye for detail and a nice 'feel' of that never ending glide in the movie, you even match the lighting of the scene. Liked.

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