Coen's first Spitfire. Cause real men build spitfires.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 2:12 pm
Hey Fellas.
A few days ago I dug this out of the stash and started rummaging through the box to see what I could see and remind myself as to why I had this kit in the first place.
I never really figured that bit out, other than I remember that I really wanted a 32nd scale spitfire to build.
Jermaine announced his buddy build and I thought that I'd hold this until then as he's a good friend and it would be a nice kit to build for him.
I just now discovered that he's giving away prizes for the builds, though I hold no expectations that my work will warrant one, I'll just discount myself from those now. I want to build this without the pressures of competition over my head, I don't build well that way.
So, with that out of the way, I can just build this for fun and for my appreciation of the Hulk.
I started this kit with a fever of 37.9C so I was worried that it would drag on and I would stumble about in the instructions or parts for hours.
Boy was I wrong.
I can't really speak for accuracy, as I'm building this mostly for the fun of it and to learn more of the basics of aircraft building, but the fits and the ease of build for this kit (from my amateur perspective) was awesome. I built almost all of it into paintable sub-assemblies in one day.
Unfortunately that's as far as I got. I got much more ill and couldn't continue work for several days. As it stands, my fever has returned this morning and I won't be getting anything done for the foreseeable future.
So much for the flu shot eh? haha.
So here are some shots of the kit and the work so far.
The kit is HobbyBoss' 1:32 Spitfire Mk.Vb kit# 83205
I picked it up from John at ModelsRGo in the UK, he also found and sent me some nice aftermarket to go with it.
The Aftermarket sets...
A pilot that I picked up here in Canada from Ultracast.
The obligatory sprue shots. They're out of the plastic already as I did a video review of this kit some time ago and you must take the parts out of the bags to do a proper kit review on video.
Here is the review of the kit if it's of interest to you.
[youtube]mAK47vJijUg[/youtube]
I started with the cockpit and the pilot. Both went together really easily without any drama. I had to sand the instrument panel detail off so that I can add the PE AM set after painting, but other than that it was pretty straight forward.
Posing the control levers to match the pilot's hands and feet and then later the control surfaces to match as well will be fun.
Hopefully I'll remember to do it. haha.
Then I ignored the rest of the instructions and painting guides and built the rest of the kit in a couple of hours into paintable sub-assemblies.
These clear parts on the wings, though a clever gimic, I would have prefered a styrene optional part to close them with instead of the clear parts. The clear parts are very brittle and it's really easy to chip them. They don't flex or fit the openings very well either. It's probably my only real complaint about this kit so far.
I also just added some humbrol Maskol to the bubble canopy for the mask set from Eduard didn't bother with a piece to cover the middle. Other than that, she's ready for the first round of painting. Then it's back to the build bench for the rest of the assembly.
We'll see how well that goes. I'm doing this in an entirely different way than I've used to build any of the other aircraft that I've built and I think that it will be more enjoyable for me. I hated all the others.
It's closer to what Paul does in fact.
I figured if he can use some of my armour methods I'll steal some of his aircraft idears.
A few days ago I dug this out of the stash and started rummaging through the box to see what I could see and remind myself as to why I had this kit in the first place.
I never really figured that bit out, other than I remember that I really wanted a 32nd scale spitfire to build.
Jermaine announced his buddy build and I thought that I'd hold this until then as he's a good friend and it would be a nice kit to build for him.
I just now discovered that he's giving away prizes for the builds, though I hold no expectations that my work will warrant one, I'll just discount myself from those now. I want to build this without the pressures of competition over my head, I don't build well that way.
So, with that out of the way, I can just build this for fun and for my appreciation of the Hulk.
I started this kit with a fever of 37.9C so I was worried that it would drag on and I would stumble about in the instructions or parts for hours.
Boy was I wrong.
I can't really speak for accuracy, as I'm building this mostly for the fun of it and to learn more of the basics of aircraft building, but the fits and the ease of build for this kit (from my amateur perspective) was awesome. I built almost all of it into paintable sub-assemblies in one day.
Unfortunately that's as far as I got. I got much more ill and couldn't continue work for several days. As it stands, my fever has returned this morning and I won't be getting anything done for the foreseeable future.
So much for the flu shot eh? haha.
So here are some shots of the kit and the work so far.
The kit is HobbyBoss' 1:32 Spitfire Mk.Vb kit# 83205
I picked it up from John at ModelsRGo in the UK, he also found and sent me some nice aftermarket to go with it.
The Aftermarket sets...
A pilot that I picked up here in Canada from Ultracast.
The obligatory sprue shots. They're out of the plastic already as I did a video review of this kit some time ago and you must take the parts out of the bags to do a proper kit review on video.
Here is the review of the kit if it's of interest to you.
[youtube]mAK47vJijUg[/youtube]
I started with the cockpit and the pilot. Both went together really easily without any drama. I had to sand the instrument panel detail off so that I can add the PE AM set after painting, but other than that it was pretty straight forward.
Posing the control levers to match the pilot's hands and feet and then later the control surfaces to match as well will be fun.
Hopefully I'll remember to do it. haha.
Then I ignored the rest of the instructions and painting guides and built the rest of the kit in a couple of hours into paintable sub-assemblies.
These clear parts on the wings, though a clever gimic, I would have prefered a styrene optional part to close them with instead of the clear parts. The clear parts are very brittle and it's really easy to chip them. They don't flex or fit the openings very well either. It's probably my only real complaint about this kit so far.
I also just added some humbrol Maskol to the bubble canopy for the mask set from Eduard didn't bother with a piece to cover the middle. Other than that, she's ready for the first round of painting. Then it's back to the build bench for the rest of the assembly.
We'll see how well that goes. I'm doing this in an entirely different way than I've used to build any of the other aircraft that I've built and I think that it will be more enjoyable for me. I hated all the others.
It's closer to what Paul does in fact.
I figured if he can use some of my armour methods I'll steal some of his aircraft idears.
