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Maciej Bellos (m2000-5)
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Spitfire Mk IXc "City of Warsaw"

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19 5 May 2018, 20:37
Adam Gudynowski
Spitfire? I'm in!
7 May 2018, 18:57
Gordon Sørensen
Me too!
7 May 2018, 19:17
Nikolaos Kouzinis
Κι εγω μεσα Μαθιε
7 May 2018, 20:00
Maciej Bellos
Welcome guys! So here's a question: can I use humbrol's red leather to paint the seat?
7 May 2018, 20:10
Adam Gudynowski
Have you checked if it was aluminium (so painted interior green) or plastic (red)?
8 May 2018, 05:49
Maciej Bellos
Adam, I haven't found a picture of the specific aircraft interior so far. So I decided to use Humbrol's red leather which I will try to give it a shiny finish.

Some progress made. All the interrior details have been painted and some parts like the throttle have been put in place.

Also painted: wheels and landing gear.

Next: instrument panel and belts.
23 May 2018, 17:49
Marcin Snakowski
Following!
27 May 2018, 05:07
Maciej Bellos
Welcome Marcin!
28 May 2018, 20:39
Maciej Bellos
I uploaded a photo of the instrument panel. Some gloss on the dials and possible some colour here and there.
28 May 2018, 20:46
Maciej Bellos
The cockpit is done, with only the gunsight missing. Probably the best cockpit I've ever built and it was fun. Kudos to Hasegawa for this one.
I dryfitted the whole thing, it seems to go well. Also I checked if the canopy can be placed in the open position, it seems so without it being stressed. So it will be open, but... the cockpit door will be closed. I am reluctant in cutting it away from the rest of the fuselage. This is one shortfall of the kit (not the most important one, which is the length of the fuselage - I don't bother).
15 June 2018, 20:18
Marcin Snakowski
Nicely done!
16 June 2018, 16:02
Maciej Bellos
Thanks Marcin!
16 June 2018, 16:38
Maciej Bellos
So the Spit I am building has the "c" wing which housed two cannons and four machine guns, the latter residing at the outer portions of the wing. Does anybody know if the end of the barrel of each machine gun was visible? Check my last photo.
20 July 2018, 22:04
Gareth Windsor
The 303 machine guns were recessed and would be covered with a red cloth square to protect the barrel from the elements. If you look at pictures of British WWII fighters that have returned home after a dog fight the bullets have ripped a hole in the cloth.
Hope this helps.

google.com/search?q=..0covers&tbm=isch
30 October 2018, 01:22
Maciej Bellos
Thank you Gareth! Really helpful!
30 October 2018, 04:13
Treehugger
The box art seems to depict the guns at the center of the wing.
30 October 2018, 07:50
Maciej Bellos
Welcome Treehugger! There are one 20mm cannon and two .303 machine guns depicted in the boxart. Gareth's link was very helpful.
30 October 2018, 19:15
Treehugger
I went now to check with my Eduard spit in 1:48 scale, but I realized that I have the IXe. That one only has two .50 cannons apparently.
30 October 2018, 19:33
Treehugger
Looking at the drawings for the Eduard IXc on their website, the outer 303 guns seems to be a little over the center line, I did not know that. Presumably, the new Eduard stuff is more accurate. No 303 gun barrel seems to be protruding out of the wing.
30 October 2018, 19:35
Maciej Bellos
Thanks!
30 October 2018, 19:52
Maciej Bellos
That looks promising right? Dryfitting the lower part of the cowling. Things are a bit bleak. I'll try to glue it in the proper place the best I can before putty comes in and the fine rivet detail disappears...
4 January 2019, 22:05
Adam Gudynowski
You could use Eduard's Spitfire😉
6 January 2019, 10:32
Maciej Bellos
Hahaha, I could Adam, I could.
6 January 2019, 13:27
Adam Gudynowski
A little bit of putty and it will be perfect 👍
6 January 2019, 21:57
Mark
Superb work
22 October 2022, 08:47
Maciej Bellos
Thank you guys for the likes!

Thank you Mark! I really enjoyed building the cockpit. On the other hand, the wing root is so and so, propably my wrong doing. The underside of the cowling is another matter, I don't think I did something wrong there.

There is some progress from the last time I uploaded photos. I want to mask the clear parts before I show you anything.
22 October 2022, 09:56
Maciej Bellos
Alberto and the rest of the gang, thank you for the likes and welcome!
22 October 2022, 11:51
Maciej Bellos
Welcome Franck!
22 October 2022, 18:41
Maciej Bellos
Welcome James!
22 October 2022, 19:53
Maciej Bellos
Welcome Rui!
23 October 2022, 05:56
Maciej Bellos
Welcome LucLuke!
23 October 2022, 06:51
Villiers de Vos
Nice progress.
23 October 2022, 08:09
Maciej Bellos
Thank you Villiers!
23 October 2022, 09:20
Maciej Bellos
Welcome Christian!
23 October 2022, 14:54
Neil
Following too 👍
23 October 2022, 22:22
Maciej Bellos
Welcome Neil and John!
24 October 2022, 04:16
Maciej Bellos
Welcome Vincent!
24 October 2022, 08:08
Maciej Bellos
Welcome Lukasz!
24 October 2022, 11:14
Moreno Baruffini
Just found this! Any news? Since I'm also building a Spitfire mk.IX (with less details...) I'm very interested!
Great progress so far!
21 December 2022, 21:54
Maciej Bellos
Thank you Pietro!

Moreno, I have glued the lower part of the cowling in place. Some puttying and sanding followed and some more needs to be done. I think I kind of messed up the wing root. For now it's been queued, I need to finish the Su-57 and the Mirage 2000 first.
22 December 2022, 05:39
Maciej Bellos
Welcome Robert!
22 December 2022, 10:23
Maciej Bellos
Welcome Mark!
22 December 2022, 16:31

Project info

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1:48
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1:48 Spitfire Mk.IXc (Hasegawa 09079)
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IXc
GB Royal Air Force (1918-now)
131 Wing NH214/SZ-G (Capt. Aleksander Gabszewicz)
November 1944 BE
 

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