Revell 1/32 Spitfire I/II

FW189? Decent kit if it’s the Airfix one.

Well its possible that was it. I think it was airfix but something tells me all the kits were revell. Could be wrong.

Wasnt Junkers or Heinkel it was some gondola arrangement or at least a big glasshouse front.

FW189? Decent kit if it’s the Airfix one.

Paul,

I too got the 1/32 Hurricane from TK MAXX yesterday and again it was 9.99. A full £6 cheaper than my LMS.

Another kit they had was the Phantom/Mirage tiger meet duo 1/72 for £14.99 and a german 1/72 twin engined aircraft for 5.99. Sorry dont remember which. Wasnt Junkers or Heinkel it was some gondola arrangement or at least a big glasshouse front.

OOOPs –cutting in again, thanks for paint tip–I also got a 1/72 AW Seahawk from Local Maplins for £3.75 ( Airfix) . Happy hunting!!

To continue the thread hijack(sorry) Yes as stated keep an eye on TK Maxx. I got a 1/32 Revell Hurricane and Me 109f at Cribbs Causeway Bristol on Sunday at £9.99 each. As also said good luck with the Spitfire!:)

Halfords rattle can silver

Try the Halfords Ford Moondust silver, Autostick. It’s a great match for the silver paint used on RAF aircraft during and post WW2.

It has the correct semi-sheen straight from the can or gloss lacquer it for the jets.

Anon.

Yea , as stated , Halfords grey Acrylic primer is quite brilliant for model kits . Went to TK Maxx in Swindon today among the Toys was a Revell 1/48 kit of Berlin Airlift C-47, build as USAF or RAF. Reduced from £29.99 to £9.99, so I snaffled it up. The main base colour is Aluminium , so it looks like a Halfords rattle can in this colour to save me a lot brush work. Dont when I’ll get started , as I am helping Grandson with a WW 1 ” trenches ” diorama ” at the moment –some thing to do with his school home work!! . ( Didn’t mean to hi-jack post–Good luck with Spitfire)

Yes I use primer from the motor factors and also grey tamiya that one with a coat or several of KLEAR(old style blue top) matches perfectly RAF grey.Used it on my Javelin,Hunter and Meteor with good effect.

With acrylics it is good to prime it first, best paint i found that i use and is cheapish, it is Halfords car grey primer in a rattle can ( it is actually an acrylic primer)

I’m a disciple of the hairy stick, I did dabble once with airbrushing but I just couldn’t get on with it. Acrylic is starting to creep into my paint drawer too though so I’m not an entire dinosaur!
That said I did rattle can my recent Victor B2 build. I think trying to hand paint it would have been bad for morale…

Paul strangely I was started off as a lad using enamel paints which were almost always gloss finish. I then started using up some acrylics I had left over from a brief stint doing sci fi figure painting ie games workshop typed stuff. Not to amass an army of painted figures but I would buy one or two figures I liked and then display them. I used to quite like it when I got to painting the detailing but hated the mass paint part.

When I was using acrylics they were just what was left over from the figure painting but the colours were quite a rough match for dark earth etc. The rotting flesh colour I had was a great stand in for duck egg blue.

I have recently went back to enamels to do my 1/72 Hunter so we will see how that goes. I will experiment and see which I like and if I like one over the other I will start using whichever is better.

All my painting is by hairy stick too but I never ever get really good results like I see on here.

Also thanks for the link Paul but what I am trying to do is get more info on this forum and trying to put some content on this very underused part of the forum.

I’ve got one of these kits in the loft, along with the OLD Matchbox Spitfire 24. I was going to build them together as a sort of development comparison.

All done with a hairy stick and Xtracrylics.

Very nice job there. I use a hairy stick and am just swapping over to use acrylics myself.Only problem is I hate waste and I must have well in excess of 100 tins of enamels. Still its time to move on!

All done with a hairy stick and Xtracrylics.

Should have put that in my last post. Arthur is that hairy stick or airbrush you used on your Spit?

Join http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?act=idx

Put your questions there, they are a very helpful lot.

By coincedence I bought a Revell 1:32 Spitfire mk22/24 on Friday and this turns out to be a reboxed Matcbox kit with new decals! Still for £17 it will keep me busy(especialy with the wing fit)

http://www.jacksonsmodels.co.uk/revell-04704-supermarine-spitfire-mk2224-132-scale.ir?cName=kits-plastic-kits-revell-revell-aeroplanes

Thanks Arthur and Drem.

Yes Arthur the box looks like the first one. So its a bit of a better kit than I first imagined. Ok on with some practice aircraft and then will have a go at this.

Chreck inside of some bits and pieces may have a date when kit was first released and the maker.
How much detail do you want to add. If non much, keep it simple with plastic card and stretched sprue.
Worth getting the etched seat belts though.

Does the box look like this?

http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/1850_1_19407.html

or this.

http://modelingmadness.com/scotts/allies/gb/32rspit1preview.htm

If it does, it’s the Hasegawa kit.

Smaller details like doors and suchlike should be fine. Larger items like entire cockpits may need a bit of “fettling” to fit properly.
I’ve recently built the Hasegawa MkV version and it’s a fairly easy build. I have the Revell MkI/II version to do (among many others)

There now follows a gratuitous Spitfire model picture. 🙂