Spitfire Mk.IXc late version

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May 16, 2015
Unpainted cockpit and fuselage.
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May 16, 2015
Cockpit test fitted.
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May 16, 2015
Cockpit painted and ready for the other half of the fuselage.
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May 17, 2015
Ready for paint.
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May 17, 2015
Ready for paint.
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May 22, 2015
Basic camouflage painting done
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May 23, 2015
First step in the weathering process using lightened and darkened base colours.
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May 23, 2015
Next step is to paint the invasion stripes.
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May 23, 2015
Invasion stripes painted.
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May 23, 2015
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May 23, 2015
Now onto my favourite part; the decals.
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May 30, 2015
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May 30, 2015
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May 30, 2015
Next step is a subtle panel wash to finish the weathering process.
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June 7, 2015
A simple oil wash can really get the details to appear. I have slightly exaggerated the wash on the lower side since it is less visible from the “normal view position”.
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June 7, 2015
Another example of what an oil wash can do for the surface details.
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June 7, 2015
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June 13, 2015
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June 13, 2015

Comments

16 May 2015, 17:48

Mats Bengtsson
Thanks Guido. Yes, this time it is two Spits in a row.

16 May 2015, 20:13

Tim van Dooremalen
Cool! I was hoping someone would start one of these Eduard Spits!

16 May 2015, 20:16

Mats Bengtsson
Thanks Tim. The Eduard Mk.IX kits are excellent.

16 May 2015, 20:46

Christian Bruer
Nice and fast work Mats!

17 May 2015, 18:32

Christian Meyerhoff
Excellent work so far ! Why did You paint the pilot`s seat in dark red ?

17 May 2015, 18:37

Mats Bengtsson
Thank you all. Christian; the seat is painted in the colour Eduard suggests, Gunze H33 Russet. Normally I use Vallejo Burnt cadmium red with a pinch of white in it or Tamiya XF-64 lightened with a pinch of XF-15 but I was out of both when I was about to paint the seat.

17 May 2015, 19:01

Christian Meyerhoff
Hi Mats! Thank You for this info. I was only wondering why the seat has a different color from the rest of the cockpit.

17 May 2015, 19:11

Mats Bengtsson
Here is some info about metal/plastic seat on Spitfires.
britmodeller.com/for..elite-seat-question/

17 May 2015, 19:22

Martyn Fox
Nice start Mats. This is a lovely kit to build. You can never have enough Spits.

17 May 2015, 19:30

Mats Bengtsson
You're welcome Guido 🙂
Thanks Martyn. I agree, this is a great kit. It almost builds itself.

18 May 2015, 18:51

Martien Lourens
Looks very good, Mats 👍

23 May 2015, 10:11

Cristian Bordina
Wow Mats ;D

23 May 2015, 13:40

Choppa Nutta
looking sweet, nice that you are using the extended rudder 🙂

23 May 2015, 13:44

Christian Ristits
Perfect Job, wow!

23 May 2015, 15:43

Mats Bengtsson
Thanks a lot for the kind comments guys.

23 May 2015, 18:00

Mats Bengtsson
Thanks Guido.

23 May 2015, 21:20

Erik Leijdens
looking good mats!

30 May 2015, 21:41

Mats Bengtsson
Thanks mates.

31 May 2015, 07:33

Christian Borchmann-Backhaus
Nice one... Didi how did u mask the camo?

31 May 2015, 07:51

Christian Borchmann-Backhaus
And yes, you can never have enough Spitfires and One-Oh-Nines 🙂 My Spit vs. 109 ratio is 3:4 at the moment....

31 May 2015, 07:53

Mats Bengtsson
Thanks Christian 🙂

The camouflage was masked using blu-tack, paper, and Tamiya masking tape in various sizes. Everything was tidied up by carefully airbrush freehand.

31 May 2015, 08:37

Gerald
👍

31 May 2015, 09:26

Martyn Fox
Coming along well Mats 👍

31 May 2015, 12:26

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Nice clean work

31 May 2015, 12:32

Choppa Nutta
" tidied up by carefully airbrush freehand"
that is extremely neat and tidy freehand ! all the edges have such a consistent "radius" if you know what I mean 🙂
the slightly soft edges look just right !

31 May 2015, 14:00

Christian Bruer
Very well done Mats and as Choppy Nutta mentiond neat and tidy!

31 May 2015, 17:50

Mats Bengtsson
Thanks guys for all the kind comments. They're very much appreciated.

31 May 2015, 19:39