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1/48 Tamiya
Spitfire Mk. Vb
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Article by Neil Wynne |
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The Spitfire Vb is the Tamiya 1:48 kit, I chose the clipped
wing version included in the kit. I believe they used to clip those wonderful
elliptical wings to enable the aircraft to become more manoeuvrable at lower
levels.
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The kit was built more or less straight from the box, with only the
Airwaves etched brass detail set and True Details resin wheels. The etched
brass set supplied a wonderful pilot seat (much better scale thickness)
as well as other cockpit details and also allows the modeller to lower the
landing flaps on the wings. This entailed removing the kit flaps but was quite
simple a task using the Tamiya panel line scriber.
I also replaced the rudder
actuator push pull rod below the left tail plane. The kit item is moulded
solid on the side of the fuselage, I simply cut it away, leaving the rudder
actuator horn on the rudder and replaced it with a short length of stretched
sprue.
The model was then primed using Halfords Acrylic Primer and then
airbrushed with my Badger 150 and Aeromaster Warbird Acrylics. I used a
thinned wash of The Detailer which is a great product, like a wash in a
bottle, around the landing gear legs and bays and also around the
cowlings.
I used the kit decals and added panel lines with a soft sharp
pencil, I then dirtied the airframe with Tamiya Smoke airbrushed of course and
then sealed everything with Aeromaster Acrylic dull coat.
Neil Wynne
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