Spitfire Mk IIa

[kiwichappers]

Just begun one of the new tool Airfix Spitfire Mk I/Ia/IIa kits. It's all sweetness and light so far with options to build virtually any early Spitfire Mk.

[chriswil42]

So far so good

Chris

[Wizzel]

What scale is this one Francis? It's going to be a beauty anyway, but just curious.

[kiwichappers]

It's 48th scale, my usual scale for building Spitfires. Bit more progress today the starboard side cockpit wall.

[zak]

Hi Francis, nice to see you posting on here.

[kiwichappers]

Thanks Dave, I'll endeavour to uphold the high standards of the site. but don't be alarmed if there's the odd slip in standards.

[MSea]

Hi Francis good to see what you are doing - looking at my models you have no problem upholding the standard (very low in my case)

[Bigkev]

Hi Francis,
Great to have you back posting again.
Can I ask a question?
Were certain instruments on British aircraft outlined in blue, yellow and red just like the Luftwaffe aircraft?
Never seen this highlighted before.
Cheers,
Bigkev

[Bob C]

Hi Francis bought one of these at Bolton,  the last show we attend as a club seems such a long time ago, it was quite cheap, I’ll watch an expert build before I mess mine up.
Cheers
Bob c

[Biggles]

It's looking good Francis.

Where are we going to display all these models when this pandemic is over?
We'll have to have WEEKLY Club meetings to fit them all in!

Biggles

[kiwichappers]

Hi Francis,
Great to have you back posting again.
Can I ask a question?
Were certain instruments on British aircraft outlined in blue, yellow and red just like the Luftwaffe aircraft?
Never seen this highlighted before.
Cheers,
Bigkev

Thanks for the welcome everybody. Now then Kevin, the gauges with the coloured bezels are suffering a bit from modellers licence in that the rings around are not as fine as I like them to be, hence their overly prominent appearance. They are all engine management gauges for temperatures and pressures and their appearance seems to vary from no colour through to my gaudy effort here.

[Bigkev]

Hi Kiwichappers,
Thanks for the update. I know that I use some artistic licence sometimes, especially when reference material is hard to locate.
But, it looks very nice mate, so please continue to lavish us with this build.
Cheers,
Bigkev

[kiwichappers]

Fuselage closed up earlier today and I'm now on with sorting out the wings.

[zak]

Sad, all that great work will hardly be seen, but at least we know its there.

[Bigkev]

Hi Francis,
Thanks for letting me know about the instruments.
I think it will still be visible if we/they look closely enough.
Great build,
more please!
Bigkev