Hi Dave, did this model get finished?

Not sure about bling, thinking of making it all dirty an 'orrible especially as people are getting upset about the squeeky clean Spitfire.
I finished the camo on the fuz today, I'm pretty inmpressed with the paint should be able to crack on with the markings tomorrow.

You'll have someones eye out with that gun

Thats rivetastic, very nice Dave not sure that u/c will be any good though.

Stewart

Thanks for that Jason, thats shed some light on things, what becomes apparent is that the aircraft was repainted with a different camo scheme causing some confusion when we've compared photo's of the modern and old. Despite the gear doors being bare metal the underside seems to still be light grey, ...

Yeah been on there, theres tons of them. Don't think we will ever find all round pictures of the original aircraft though, Who's gonna know it's not quite right?

Right back at the start of this project we decided the supplied spinner was not only the wrong shape but was also not up to the job. We managed to find a secondhand spinner of the right shape but still had a single fixing bolt through the middle, so it was all sent to Allan at Cestrian who made a ve...

The camo pattern is very unusual and we don't have many good pictures of the original fullsize aircraft, there are a few useable pictures of the left hand side but not much of the right. To make it even harder the restored airworthy P47 in the states isn't very accurate either, so I've had to use a ...

This is the front end after the grey paint was applied yesterday.

Heres just a snap of the back end showing the markings. It's all painted now and will have the fuel proofer applied later in the week.

If you went secondhand I reckon about £1500, I have a Fly Eagle Jet F16 coming up for sale very soon. It will be just the airframe and retracts, it currently has a Jetcat P80 for power. You can pick those engines up at reasonable prices.

Stewart

Those will take all your paper round money for the next few months, well worth it though. Better buy two sets so Steve's got some too.

I've got a few pics which I'm waiting for "her indoors" to resize for this site. The Whole model was taken back to the glass, the tailwheel doors will be re-made whilst the edges have been repaired. Steve just wants it re-painted so there won't be any flashy new parts other than the new co...

Forgot to say even though the Warbird paint costs more than normal paint it's definatly worth it and as you mix it with water rather than cellulose it means it smells better too.

Yeah, You get your 190 wheel back

42 more veiws an your Tiffie will have been veiwed 20,000 times.
Pointless fact of the evening.

Paint was going so well until I splashed thinners over it's nose today, Bum

Dangley legs dropped by today to checkout progress so I thought I'd better do a bit. Sprayed the dark grey onto top side of the fuselage and one wing today with Phil Clarkes Warbird paints. I had heard mixed reports about these paints and having never used them before was a bit concerned as to how i...

Why not treat your new creation to some proper bling bling Glennis wheels with proper 190 tyres