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My efforts so far today on the Brewster. It's a rather tricky fitting kit that is going to take a bit of care to get the fuselage halves together.



Andrew

Ok, I am tentatively modeling Eric Lock's Spitfire Mk Vb, #W3257 of No. 611 Squadron, flying out of Hornchurch.

Again, thank you for the kit and the kind letter Mike and I hope the finished build is worthy of your generosity.

Hermon

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Again, thank you for the kit and the kind letter Mike and I hope the finished build is worthy of your generosity.

Hermon

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Hermon, you've got some good friends here. Wingman's kind gift reflects how we all feel. I'm sure your build will be worthy.

Well, I got a small start on my Roden Gladiator for this Campaign today. Got the wings assembled and the fuse off to check for fit. No probs thus far . . .



Will be getting on to the front cowl and engine assembly thisarvo.

Cheers, D

The Brewster has moved past the primer stage.

And the silver undersides are on. Could have been light blue, depending upon when the aircraft was major serviced and repainted. But i think it would have still been the original silver dope to which the Finns intially just added the upper colours. So the decision is made and now final.



Andrew

Good start on the Gladiator Damian, the Roden kit is quite nice but very tight fitting just like most Roden models.

One thing worries me since you say the wings are assembled...and that is that all 4 ailerons are in the full down position in your pic. That would only occur if the controls were broken. But maybe you simply haven't final positioned them and glued them yet? Well easy fix even if they are glued anyway.

Andrew

Looking nice.
But before you proceed, delete the landing light under the starboard wing, as the early variants, including B-239, only had a landing light under the port (left) wing. Gluing in the clear part, then filling and sanding should do the trick. Although Classic airframes' instructions do mention this, the notice looks easy to miss.

Have you made decisions on the marking options yet?

The underside colour could also be light grey, btw. (the order for light blue, so called DN-color, to replace the light grey was issued on 7th May 1942)
As you already mentioned, repaintings were usually done along major overhauls, so depending on the need for such servicing, some aircraft retained their original aluminium laqcuer undersides longer than others.

Andrew,
your weathering looks good, but sadly the colours are off for finnish B-239. They should be black / dark green uppersides.

I've decided to do the Ilmari Juutilianen Orange 4. I'm still going with aluminium doped undersides, as looking at how worn the paint is on most Finnish Brewsters makes me think that they probably were not freshly painted until it was an absolute neccessity. Of course it's almost impossible to actually prove one way or the other what the underside colour is at any time as you can't really tell worn aluminium dope from light grey or blue in old B&W pics. In such situations i just make a decision and go with it!