#7 Battle of BritainDiscuss **** DONE: 1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk.I DW-O 610 Sqdn BoB GB in the Group Builds forums; Thanks! Never saw it before but I'll look around. Maybe it's banned here, being lead and all....
Hmm. Don't know about the 'eco laws' in Canuck land, but as a modelling product, it might scrape through? it can be ordered via Hannant's etc, but if you're interested, let me know, and I'll e-mail a pic of the packaging and contents. It's no prob for me to get some and send it, and probably a lot easier and quicker than ordering on line. Oh, and the first pack is on me - I owe you for not getting to Duxford - bad Terry !!
Terry, you owe me nothing mate. You sent me that CF-5 article remember? I owe you to finisha that build (hopefully before your Buccaneer!). And there will be other Duxfords for me to come and further chances to meet. I plan to see Legends at some time as well.
As for the lead wire, a US post on another site said Bass Pro fishing shops have it in spools. One just opened last year here in town so I may get around to check it out.
I'm actually stocked for some time as the steel coil I found was after I tried making my own and, being about 8 inches long, should give me a fair nnumber of needed 1/48 hoses for a while.
As always, your willingness to help is very much appreciated.
Did a bit of modeling through the week and today. The wings went together and were glued to the fuselage, requiring a bit of seam work, and the cockpit was finished off.
As nice as the fit on this kit was supposed to be, I did have a few issues that I needed to address. Below is starboard wing root which had a small gap to take care of. This was done with the white putty/Cutex technique which filled the gap nicely.
Whereas the port wing root had no gap, there was a misalignment between the top of the wing and the surface of the wing root where it was to blend in, resulting in a small step. This I removed by carefully filing and sanding the wing root step down to where it met the top of the wing (pic below).
Also, having followed the instructions for a change, I had glued the small carb intake to the bottom of the wing before gluing the wing to the fuselage. The underside of the engine cowl was glued on afterwards, which I did per the instructions, only to find that there was a gap that needed work. So off came the intake and on went the putty (below).
After this area is smoothed down, the intake will be glued back on.
Next came the completion of the cockpit. The next two pics show the addition of the two Sutton harness cables to the rear interior of the fuselgae. This was a simple matter of gluing on some stretched sprue cut to length.
Exceptionally nice work there Andy, bl**dy good show old chap! Just noticed Tamiya have provided the later MkII gunsight, with the rectangular reflector screen. Those during the BoB period normally had a circular screen, but I wouldn't bother changing it - I'm not sure when the actual screen change occurred, and I think I've seen both in the later stages of the Battle.
Found out when the seat changed from metal to 'plastic' - 14th February 1940 on the production lines.
Thanks everyone. Terry, thanks for the added bits of info. Looks like I'm OK with the seat, albeit with the debatable added flare rack. As for the gunsight, If I hadn't have glued the winscreen on already I would have changed it but c'est la vie.
Had a set back today. Just like Jason, I managed to break the little rear canopy piece. This g***am thing is molded too wide and in trying to get it to fit the narrower fuselage, I snapped it. This has now held up progress as I want this glued in and feathered in to the fuselage before I begin painting.
I've scavanged a part from one of my ICM Spit IX's but it will need to be reshaped. So there's a bit of a hiatus while I get this new piece fitted. In the meantime, I managed to replace the kit rudder link with a bit of stretched sprue:
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