Spitfire Mk.XVI - 17 Sqn Farnborough 1950

[snappercity]

Hi guys

I haven't built a Spitfire since I was a kid as its not my usual subject area but I picked up the Eduard Mk.XVI for a few reasons.
(1) The box art just screamed buy me with a beautiful picture of the scheme I have modelled here. How many times have we all done that. The Spitfire is a plane that has been built to death by modellers in the standard camoflage schemes but the NMF just looks great on her and I couldn't resist.
(2)I worked at Farnborough (now airport for business jets) for nearly 4 years in one of the old hangers that quite possibly could have housed these back in the day.
(3) Being a member of Farnborough IPMS model club it was the only choice.
The Eduard Spitfire is a beautiful kit that was a pure joy to put together. One of those kits that just fell together and probably the best fitting kit I have built in a few years. Painting wise I used AK's Xtreme metals for the first time and it worked flawlessly. Any minor issues I had with it were my own making. The Roundels and reg stencils were sprayed using Miracle Paint Masks which I am very impressed with.
A bit picture heavy.

DSC_6796 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

DSC_6777 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

DSC_6779 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

DSC_6782 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

DSC_6785 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

DSC_6786 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

DSC_6790 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

DSC_6791 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

DSC_6797 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

DSC_6798 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

DSC_6799 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

DSC_6801 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

DSC_6803 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

DSC_6804 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

IMAG0246 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

IMAG0245 by Mark Inman, on Flickr



A few shots of the real thing... Strangely the roundels appear to be backwards in colour in a few shots.. Not sure what was going on there.


Cat# AB01008 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

tn_Spitfire-16-29 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

tn_Spitfire-16-31 by Mark Inman, on Flickr

UK2 SL549 Supermarine SpitfireF16E RMontgomeryPhoto by Mark Inman, on Flickr

Cat# AB00279 by Mark Inman, on Flickr


Thanks for looking.

[Stokesy44]

Beautiful finish Sir. Excellent stuff.

[Willem]

Absolutely drop-dead gorgeous!

[Smiffy]

Beautiful spitfire

[Avgas]

Superb job.

[demarcation]

Great work mate! Nice finish!

[Avgas]

Super job.