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Wow - this kid is for the experienced builder, good stuff

Had to laugh re your 'safe place'. Mine is the carpet, there must be a heap of tiny parts of several of my projects which I have lost and had to scratch build or re-source, oh the woes of the plastic modeller!

Nice video. Speedy healing so you can get back to painting.

Excellent videos, watching them all as about to buy this kit. Going to build the cockpit and engine as separate 'open' models and have the plane all closed up apart from gun and wheel bays and have the canopy 'misted over' so can't see in to the empty cockpit. I must say however I'm amazed by the amount of brilliant modellers that use that horrible type of filler as opposed to milliput. If you use milliput you can smooth it out such that no cutting or sanding is required. Filling those ejection marks could be done in minutes with no sanding etc required, you really must try it. Cheers.

*I enjoy your video? Yes sir, it's a marvelous kit and all your tips are welcome! I don't know if i'll build this Airfix Spitfire one day but it's very interesting to follow!*

Great videos , I like the explanations and no music format, helps me unwind from work!

Very nice.

Greetings Nerd, the Spitfire is looking great, you have done a excellent job thus far, I hope the rest of the build/paint job goes well, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia.

Red tip ammo is for tracer ammunition. I'm sure they only used about 1 tracer between 7 rounds or so but this might be for infantry using heavy machine guns.

Excellent video with lots of details as to be expected, MN.....you have set the bar high! It's all looking great and the details that Airfix have included really are a stand-out. Hope your face is close to being healed so that you can start tackling that camo scheme. It's going to be a busy few weeks of painting once you're ok to wear that mask given the unpainted kits you have lined up.

Red tip ammunition is tracer ammunition. (you can see it when its been fired) Tracer is usually something like 1 in 5 or 1 in 10 meaning every 5th (or 10th) bullet will be tracer (red tip)

You have probably had loads of modellers screaming at you already regarding the ammunition - the red tipped rounds are tracers, usually but not always one in every five, the steel or copper jacketed rounds are 'ball' rounds, steel or copper jacketed lead cored shells. I also believe you could get 20mm rounds with explosive heads, the Germans certainly used these to devastating effect, they would also have been colour coded, with a yellow band I believe, others will know no doubt. The upshot is though that they would not all have been red, not very effective armour penetration from a thin jacket tracer round! A mix of some sort was always used (they weren't shooting down gas-filled barrage balloons as in WWI!).

You've twisted my arm, I have put in an order for this kit... How did you manage to get stitches on your face? hope everything heals up alright, great video.

Red Tipped ammo is nothing like the way you have painted them !

Red tip tracer? Certainly was when I was in the army.

But why do all that work only for it to be sealed and closed forever 😕 😮 huh?

Yes always good to watch!😀

Hello MN, after the wait, I'm sure the airbrushing will go like wildfire for you. Best of luck. It's very nice to see a classic plane treated with such care at this scale. Very nice work. I'll see you soon.