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Much appreciated guys - I enjoyed building it a lot.

Next one is the SE5a - in a few months.

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Looking forward to seeing everyone elses models. Eric is right - building a model is a great way of learning about a particular aircraft. Before this I would not even have been able to tell the difference between a Tempest V and a Typhoon.

I posted the same pics on Britmodeller, along with a very brief build summary here:

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showt...

Cheers

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SlipStream77 said:

Very impressive, I'd be really happy with that result at 1/48.

What colour did you use for the spinner?

Thanks! Spinner (and fuselage band) is Tamiya 'Sky'.

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RichB said:

OI when I was an active modeller, I used to mix all my own colours, especially for something like a spinner but it seems, from the questions people often ask, that these people buy all the colours ready mixed. Is that more the case?

You can get just about any colour or any shade of any colour you want 'off the shelf' from various manufacturers. Unless you're specifically not going to do any weathering, it's all a bit of a waste of effort though, since weathering will obviously change the colour. I tend to use what I've got in stock, chuck it on and if it's too dark or light, stick some black or white into it. Within reasonable limits, nobody can ever argue it's the wrong shade (becasue of things like weathering/fading/variations in original shades and not least how a particular finish would 'scale').

Having said that, it's always best to use a colour straight form teh tin, becasue if you screw up and need to respray some part of a colour scheme, it's virtually impossible to mix the right shade. If you keep al your different mixes, you soon loose track of what they're meant to be.