My 1/24 Spitfire

[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by Kupsised

Soooo many kits I want in amongst that lot. I love 1:32, I have a Revell Hunter on the go at the moment. It's the best kit I have ever built (and I've built the fabled 1:24 Mossie as well. The stories of a gapless fit were exaggerated, especially if you want to do it gear up), it falls together right out the box, so literally the only thing that lets it down is my clumsy paws I'd love to try the Trumpeter BAC Lightning though, and I've got my sights set on a Hawk as soon as I get back to the UK over the summer (I love Revell for 1:32, simply because they are ridiculously cheap for how good they are). Also, over where I am now there's a toy shop that's got the 1:32 Ju88 sat on a shelf. It's been there longer than I've been going there, the box is battered as hell (since it's a kids toy shop, who knows what they were thinking when they bought the Ju88 for that), and every time I go in there I just feel sorry for it. As soon as I have the cash I've told the missus I'm going to go and 'rescue' it, since I couldn't justify it any other way Still not sure she's convinced though

Go rescue that JU 88 Its a great kit and I've not had to buy many extra's for mine ... just canopy masks I think.

The recent Revell 1/32 kits are serious amazing value for money, I know I want their old 1/32 Hunter too now that you mention it ... damn you oh and they are bringing out a 1/32 Heinkel He 219 UHU this year too that I wont be able to resist!

Just went and snapped a couple of pics of my 1/32 in progress that I mentioned ... as you can see the Trumpeter 1/32 Lightning is big compared to a Hawk of the same scale and also of a Spitfire of the same scale too ... I like to stick to one scale for this reason ... to get an idea of scale of aircraft you would not normally see beside each other.

The Lightning is almost ready for primer now ... I've not sprayed over the canopy's, they are masked off, the Hawk is almost ready for primer too ... hate the red plastic to build with! Not too much filling or sanding on either of them compared to the spit. I also tried using silver foil on the nose of the Lightning for the first time too here.



And last shot shows the old Revell Spitfire MK1 I mentioned, this is a really old and bad fitting kit and I wanted to practise on this with an airbrush and several other area's before starting my Tamiya 1/32 Spitfire master-kit ... the original decals were ruined, so just used some spares on this over Klear in ad hoc fasion ... I'll add a matt coat later and also try some more weathering effects, but my confidence is getting better with these big kits all the time.



As you can see I build 1/12 Motorcycle kits too (hence my user name) and now 1/350 ships ... where will it end?

Happy Modelling