Here's a few pics of my latest build, Tamiya's 1/48 Spitfire Vb trop. I built it pretty much out of the box except for a set of Eduard prepainted seatbelts.


The camo was airbrushed using Hannants Xtracrylix dark earth/middle stone/azure blue.



I tried to show some semblence of the cockpit instrument dials by painting small white lines in each to represent the dial needles.


I used silver enamel to show worn areas of the paint, then used a wash of Burnt Umber to accentuate the panel lines and darkened them with pencil lead powder. Then the upper surface camo was faded with Mig pigments.

Excellent replication of a weather beaten Nth African Bird.

Excellant Martin, Is this going to get entered in the MOM? It should Nicely painted and weathered.
2 Spitfires in a week, I'll have to post a couple
Mal

Hi Martin!

Your Tamiya Spitfire looks great! Much better than the Airfix one I have! I like the two tone brown paintscheme and the weathering very much. You seem to have found a very interesting way of doing panel lines...

Has someone build a desert scheme Spitfire in U.S. markings? I think the Spitfire with the stars looks great too! sorry for my british friends...

Jean-Luc

very nice model