Stunning work Steve. I too have the RAF video induced paranoia about grease and oxygen. Still worry about it 40 years later even though I don’t touch either these days…..😂😂
It’s a great pleasure every time to follow your beautiful job, you help a lot everyone who want to progress and be better. Thank you so mutch to cheer your expertise
Hi Steve - an excellent and inexpensive alternative to the hobby-branded dry brushes are makeup brushes. They come in more sizes and are generally a third to half the price.
Hi, Thanks for posting your build of this awesome kit. So in your opinion, do you think that the Supermarine Interior Green is the Apple Green often referred to on early marks of the Spitfire Mk Ia?
You said you were enjoying the build. So are we! Interesting that a plate is supplied through which the rigging for rudder and elevators are run and attached. Is that detailed in the instructions, or did you "wing" it? Pity that the work is not easily seen. Another modeller (Zinzan?) has described trouble with fitting the main chassis oleos. Instructions say to fit them after the upper wings are glued. Much easier to fit them before. Part 8 of the build I think. The seat belts are a work of art.
Hi John the plate give perfect alignment of the cables in the fuselage and the instructions are very clear showing this. I deal with the main gear in P3 - personally I don’t think fitting the legs before the wing is joined as Zinzan did is the right approach - I fettled them as Kotare suggest to ensure a good fit later.
Awesome work as usual Steve! I’m awaiting this kit on pre-order I must admit I was initially a bit sceptical about the low part count v price but then I considered I have the 1\32 Tamiya Spitfire started a year ago with no sign of finishing anytime soon whereas this feels like being able to get a top notch kit without any real chance of stalling before completion so I have changed my mind and can’t wait for it! The Supermarine Green has thrown me a bit…I have enough trouble trying to decide what shade of regular interior grey green I want to use😂
For RU-vid reference, 'Guy Martin's Spitfire' documentary film on rebuilding N3200 Q V flown by Geoffrey Stephenson will inspire and inform modelers with this kit. The cockpit green is accurate. The Australian War Memorial w/site has a amazing RAF Official Training film, titled, 'Streamline Colour', by Guild Films that demonstrates the procedures needed to create the finish desired for, 'high speed aircraft'. The film shows the leading edge 'D' section of the wings made smooth by filling rivet depressions with putty and spraying primer/filler. 'Spitfire Preflight/Walkaround Tour -EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2018' is another great video. I have done enough 1/32 Tamiya Spitfires (one with the Aires resin cockpit kit) to know that even with the canopy open and the side door in the down position it is hard to see and appreciate the cockpit detail so I am building three Airfix 1/24 Mk.IXcs. Two will be posed in flight with pilot figures on custom stands. One (J Johnson) with a variable speed motor to spin the prop the other (G Beurling) with both kit engines on their own stands. The third model resting on its gear with removable engine cowlings and a enhanced detailed cockpit. I have the download version of Paul Monforton's Spitfire reference book for help. Kotare has developed a wonderful kit that is designed by modelers for modelers. Hopefully ReedOak will do a seated pilot figure.
I suppose it’s because I’ve got dozens of expensive jars of paint already which I don’t want to waste by introducing a new range. The other reason is that I want to build the kit as Kotare set out so that viewers can see what the aircraft looks like as the manufacturer intended
Not wrong Ralph but Kotare suggest that Supermarine used a slightly different colour with a brighter green tinge to it - that’s why I followed their instructions and mixed it.
Re Supermarine green Steve - if you google Supermarine Walrus cockpit images, there are some decent shots that give a good idea of the 'apple green' look of machines built at Woolston and later, Itchen works up to some point in 1940 when they were made to conform to the standard cockpit grey-green.
Greetings my friend, the Spitfire is looking great thus far, hope the rest of the build goes well for you, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia 👍👍👍👍👍
Outstanding work on an amazing looking kit! I am not usually a fan of decals on an instrument panel, but Wingnu....Kotare makes it work well, and you knocked it out of the park with glossing the single instruments! It's settled, I need, well, want this kit. Keep up the outstanding work, and looking forward to the next update!
I am an ex RAF Rigger, wheels and tyres were part of my trade. In training they shew us a video of a Hasting main wheel being inflated until it exploded, a wheel the same size as that on a Lancaster ended up with the biggest pit you could put in your pocket.
@@davegoldsmith4020 we saw a video about a Victor that landed with the nose wheel blakes locked on,flat spotted the tyres,we were shown the effect of not inflating aircraft tyres with the correct equipment,pressure cut off and cage,one tyre inflated outside of the safety cage,the airman over inflated the tyre and the thing exploded killing him.
