Spitfire Mk. I Tamiya kit
This was a great kit with excellent fit and detail. Many tiny fiddly parts in the interior so I decided to build open door version.
I was not too happy with camo pattern outcome so I weathered more than usual. Decals were excellent and I mixed decals from two versions to get the look I wanted - so not exemplary of one particular plane. All paints were Vallejo Air. Weathering with oil paint and pastels. Fun build. Excuse the poor photography.
Very nice. For wing and elevator camouflage I start by laying the base colour.Then I enlarge, if needed, the kit instructions and print them out. I lay a piece of Oramask 810 over the area I want, cut it out, remove the mask and lay it on the model. The stuff is not as tacky as Tamiya tape but I remove a bit more and have never had any paint lift...yet
Excellent result, Mark!
It turned out quite nice with the applied weathering, Mark @markhedrick
I don’t know what Oramask is but I’ll try to find it. Here I cut paper to the shapes I wanted then transferred that to tape. But not as good as I would have liked.
All looks great to me, Mark. Well done!
Looks good overall. A tip...the gun firing staining should be sooty, a wash won't do it. A cheap set of art store pastels will have black, or even individual black sticks. If you can get one, a Tamiya weathering master set has black in set 87089, and 87079 has light sand. With these two you can make great looking exhaust streaks. Best is if you don't like what you've done, wipe them off with a damp cloth and get a do-over. And they come in a little "make-up" case with a perfect applicator tool. If you want you can enhance your eyebrows when you are done modeling Hehe. Oh, my local Hobby Lobby has them, if one is near you. Or on evilBay.
Well done, Mark (@markhedrick). You didn't say what the scale was, but your "tiny fiddly part" comment leads me to think it might be 1/72. No one makes a perfect model, so I think your adjustments look fine. Cheers.
It’s 1/48 scale. I don’t think my old eyes can handle smaller scale.
I think you did a fine job, indeed. Nice end result.
Good work on what is already a classic kit.
Well done!
Very nice Spit!
Nice job you did there, Mark.
Love the camo pattern!
Thanks for sharing.