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Sunday 15 May 2011

chop chop choperty chop

First pics of the Belle

My Next project is.....

Revells 1/48 B17F Memphis Belle. Lots of nasty green plastic, no real detail and soft soft old moulding. I'm gonna have to chop chop away LOL!!!

First plan is to open the fuselage doors and remove the moving surfaces ready to add a bit of interest. Might put some added scratch detail inside.

Final (ish) pics of my Revell 1/32nd Mk22 Spitfire.







So matted down and weathered pics of the mk22 by Revell. I chopped the ailerons, rudder and elevators/horizontal stabilisers to give a bit of interest. I had to support the main undercarriage with 2.5mm mains electrical copper cable stripped back to the copper and super glued into each U/C leg that I'd drilled out with my pin vice. I did the weathering before buying a book called the complete fighting history of the spitfire. It became clear that a fighting spit looked even more weather beaten than this looking at the pics in this book!

Hope those that look-in like the model. I really enjoyed making it.

Saturday 7 May 2011





other projects on the go. Yes I've got lots to be getting on with!

the mk22 spit matted down quite well in the end!


Tamiya 1 48 mossie is what i'm on atm. Enjoting it too i might add.
BTW the mk22 spit came out well in the end. I'll upload some pics of the finished model soon.
its been a long time since i've posted here! our bandwidth has been terrible and BT don't seem bothered at all. Anyhoo enough moaning.