Over the last few days I have been busy with working on the last four recent additions to this Spitfire build journal...
I built up the cockpit assemblies from the last four kits that I decided to go ahead and build. Now all of my 1/48 scale Spitfires will be built from the stash.
Here's 4 more little plastic bins holding the parts to these latest additions.
The next few photos will be of the individual kit cockpit assemblies after they were built up to the point of painting.
Revell of Germany / Special Hobby re boxing Seafire Mk XV shown below.
Next up is the Airfix Mk XII
and one of the Hasegawa kits. This one is the Mk IX with the "C" type wing. The cockpit assembly on this one is rather nice, so I included a few more pictures to show you just how much detail was right out of the box.
I would venture to say that this one is right on par with the "New" Airfix stuff...
Here's a close up of the fuselage halves:
and all of the parts before painting...
Then we go to an older Hasegawa kit. Here you can see the difference that a few years made as far as details. This is the Mk VI kit parts. They do look a little "dated" but they should... This kit is about 25 years old. It reminds me of some of the earlier Tamiya kits from the 1970's.
But the old Hasegawa kit started looking better after some paint.
Followed by the Revell of Germany / S H kit of the Seafire Mk XV
Next up is the Hasegawa Mk IX "newer" kit from the later 1990's / early 2000's if memory serves me. This kit look great once a little paint is added.
Followed by the New Airfix Mk XII. You can see the details are on par with the newer Hasegawa kit...
Since I had the air brush out and was on a roll, I decided to paint the Instrument panels and seats for the latest additions to this build log.
I used "Flat Black" for the IP's, and a special color I mixed up for WW2 German Armor. It looks like a brick red color and I thought it would be fairly close to the plastic seat color used on some Spitfires...
I sat the parts on the table with the appropriate container sitting just behind the bits of Spits...
Here you have the Revell of Germany Seafire MkXV on the left, and the Hasegawa Mk VI on the right in this photo below...
This next picture shows the IP's from the Hasegawa Mk IX on the left, and the New Tool Airfix Mk XII on the right.
This is how we sit, with bits of Spits, at the moment... π
12 little plastic tubs that still need more detail work done on the cockpits. Once that's done, I'll start gluing the fuselage halves together and we will really start seeing some progress... If you look closely, you can see the Airfix Hurricane Mk1 and the early Classic Airframes "Cloth wing" Hurricane parts in the back ground... they are sitting in little plastic tubs like the Spitfire parts are.
I'm off to the lair to do some more work...
as usual,
Comments are encouraged.
Thanks for looking. π
