Paul's 48 hour Battle of Britain build 1/48 Airfix Spifire mk1

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Post by Paul » Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:43 pm

I will be building this to honour the brave men and women who fought in the battle of britain.

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Post by chief5437 » Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:46 pm

Good luck Paul, I'm hoping to do the same kit.

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Post by Avgas » Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:13 pm

Regards, Dave.

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Post by Paul » Fri Jul 10, 2015 9:33 pm

Paul wrote:I will be building this to honour the brave men and women who fought in the battle of britain.

Heres the you tube link to watch

[youtube]ZjSl2dtl4zg[/youtube]

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Post by Paul » Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:44 am

Tonights progress

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Post by Stokesy44 » Sat Jul 11, 2015 10:57 am

Looking good - you chaps must have shares in Airfix! Can't fault them, lovely kits!

Its been tried and tested, it works! So don't blame the system if you're no good.

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Post by Paul » Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:54 pm

So a lot of progress over the weekend hangouts they can all be found on my channel Paul@ISM

Heres the progress pics and finished pics too

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Post by Goose » Mon Jul 13, 2015 7:44 am

absolutely superb!!

how do you do to make this appear so easy?

Congrats

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Post by frack » Sat Aug 01, 2015 7:30 pm

Hi Paul. Can i ask where you got the canopy from? And does it fit a tamiya kit. Carpet monster ate mine

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Post by Paul » Sat Aug 01, 2015 11:29 pm

frack wrote:Hi Paul. Can i ask where you got the canopy from? And does it fit a tamiya kit. Carpet monster ate mine

It came with the kit mate

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Post by Flavito » Sat Aug 08, 2015 1:03 am

Hi...did you apply dark dirt wash also on the (light) underside of the plane??

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Post by Paul » Sat Aug 08, 2015 7:53 am

Flavito wrote:Hi...did you apply dark dirt wash also on the (light) underside of the plane??

Yes all over it