Airfix 1/24 Spitfire Mk VB
Discussion
iiyama said:
This is no criticism of your building skills fella, but the cartridge ejection shutes under the wing don't seem right? Or am I being a bit thick? Wont be the first time for that I can tell ya!!
Yes you're right, there should be a teardrop shaped fairing just outboard of the wheel wells with a triangular ejection chute next to where the wheel sits. There's an extra set of .303 chutes depicted on the model too...Beautiful model though, a real purse from a sows ear!
lufbramatt said:
Yes you're right, there should be a teardrop shaped fairing just outboard of the wheel wells with a triangular ejection chute next to where the wheel sits. There's an extra set of .303 chutes depicted on the model too...
Beautiful model though, a real purse from a sows ear!
WHAT!! You mean Airfix got it wrong?! Beautiful model though, a real purse from a sows ear!
bar stewards!lol - cheers guys
Looks like they did!
AFAIK the Vb was the mk1a kit with a few extra bits added. Comes from an era when they had minimal investment and our friend Trevor Snowdon came up with all sorts of schemes to get a few more sales out of old moulds. Looks like tooling up a new lower wing was more than they could afford!
"Nowt that can't be sorted wit bit o' filler" he would have said, bless him
AFAIK the Vb was the mk1a kit with a few extra bits added. Comes from an era when they had minimal investment and our friend Trevor Snowdon came up with all sorts of schemes to get a few more sales out of old moulds. Looks like tooling up a new lower wing was more than they could afford!
"Nowt that can't be sorted wit bit o' filler" he would have said, bless him
Final post on this one - it's a bloody miracle but I've actually finished a model, after numerous WIP threads....
Final touches first...
With this model being wheels up I needed some sort of stand to display it. Th eSpitfire is iconic in that banked view, so I wanted Mark to have the option of displaying like that - but this is also a big kit...
I'm quite chuffed with my solution...buy one LED light from IKEA, take out the lighty bits, cut the bendy bit down, add some supporting washers and enlarge the hole for the nav light in the belly of the plane - et voila - fully adjustable stand....it has worked really well - and the remaining bendy bit has been reunited with the light bits, given a wooden base and now becomes a usable LED light again....
The model fits snuggly on the stand with no glue, so can be removed as required...
Final pieces on the kit was the exhausts. I added a bit of texture and weathered them a bit - and then used graphite pencil scrapings to add that metallic finish...
And that was it!
So onto the finished pictures...
Final touches first...
With this model being wheels up I needed some sort of stand to display it. Th eSpitfire is iconic in that banked view, so I wanted Mark to have the option of displaying like that - but this is also a big kit...
I'm quite chuffed with my solution...buy one LED light from IKEA, take out the lighty bits, cut the bendy bit down, add some supporting washers and enlarge the hole for the nav light in the belly of the plane - et voila - fully adjustable stand....it has worked really well - and the remaining bendy bit has been reunited with the light bits, given a wooden base and now becomes a usable LED light again....
The model fits snuggly on the stand with no glue, so can be removed as required...
Final pieces on the kit was the exhausts. I added a bit of texture and weathered them a bit - and then used graphite pencil scrapings to add that metallic finish...
And that was it!
So onto the finished pictures...
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