The Kit:
Hasegawa Spitfire Mk. VII kit No. 09408
Additions:
Eduard British seat belts
Construction
The kit is built OOB
expect for the seat belts, I started this kit back in 2002 with the majority of
the construction being do then. The kit was pretty straight forward to build,
and the cockpit seemed well detailed so there was no need to buy a resin one.
The only problem I had was attaching the wing tips, Hasegawa gives the modeller
the chose of two different Spitfire the Mk.VII and the Mk.VIII each has a
reshaped wing tip thus the tips are separate. For some reason the wing tips
would not line up with the wings.
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05 and 06 you can see some of the work I had to do to get the wing
tips and wings level. I had to build the wing tips up with Putty to
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This is about the time
I stopped building this kit and put it back in its box. In 2005 I brought the kit back
out and picked up were I left off the wings... Puttying, wet rubbing and
re-scribing more work went into the wings than building the kit. I then
put the kit back in the box and moved on to Jet kits, that is until late 2006 it
was time to finish the Spitfire off I had to still do a little more work to the
wings, but finally the wings were right and it was time for paint.
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Painting
The kit was
painted using Humbrol and Model Master paints, with the majority
of the kit constructed it was time to go over the kit in a metal finish
followed by a gloss clear. Once the clear was dry I placed the colour on
to the kit. When the paint was nearly dry I placed bits of masking
tap over the paint and ripped it off to give the Spitfire body a chipped
look and with that I followed up with more gloss.
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Finish
It was time to place the decals
on which Hasegawa supplied, with the decals applied it was time for the final
cote of gloss clear. The next step weathering...a bit of pastel chalk was used for
the panel lines and Tamyia weathering master kit was used for the exhaust stains
and gun pod stains on the kit, followed up with a cote of matt clear to seal the
pastel. Last step was the cockpit canopy, landing gear and fiddley bits and
that is that Spitfire finished.
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Thanks
Thanks to Craig at Areoworks for
supplying the Eduard seat belts. For any information on what else Craig
supplies drop him a E-mail at
aeroworks@iprimus.com.au and
he will send a product list.
Thanks to Steve Bamford for endless work
on this site.
Alan
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