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Welcome aboard That's remarkable. Thanks for sharing your project. I think you'll fit right in here. Very eager to see how things progress. Cheers, Guy

Thanks everyone. Much appreciated. Hopefully some free time for a little plastic mangling

In typical internet fashion I choose to disagree with my learned colleague and encourage you to leave the tanks off. Two reasons. 1/ they do obscure much of the landing gear and intake detail from certain angles. 2/ the aircraft looks more lithe and beautiful without the extraneous blobs. So, that's two posts and two viewpoints. 50/50 so far and no help to you at all Jay Truthfully, it's a spellbinding creation either way.

It would bookend the Spitfire lineage nicely. I drool at the idea of an FR-47 or MK24, especially by a company like Kotare who have shown themselves to be passionate about their products. We live in hope

Keep the faith Brad. The Griffon engined Spits are amongst Mark Robson's favourites apparently so we should be confident that Kotare will eventually release them. (~inserts praying emoji~) "On 11/10/2024 at 6:52 AM, Mark Robson said: I LOVE the 47! " (About the Seafire)

Crikey! It's enormous. 1/32nd scale XB-70 next Dan?

This method is even more unforgiving than bare metal paint. I am keen to see how you remedy these ripples.

Interesting last link If you use the "Direct link" the image will appear directly in the thread Steve.

Interesting article. Thanks for the link Martin. I took a moment to subscribe to Ward Carroll's channel. It looks as though he has a great deal of fascinating stuff to trawl through.

I'm really enjoying watching this model evolve Jim. Thanks for sharing each step of the journey.

There's a bit of "Firefox" going on in that aft section

You can see the green when you enlarge the image John.

I think someone else is bringing a Typhoon to market. See this link Hth

That's a great result Peter. Yeah, that front on view works brilliantly. Excellent, well done

That's a great idea. (Or any glass nosed Mosquito for that matter )

Brilliant result Karl. Well done for having the patience for that cammo!

I think my brain is somewhere else

Fascinating stuff Peter. It's clear that what works for one medium does not work for another. Just thinking out loud now but, since you'd already designed the 3D version, is there any mileage in bringing it to market as planned whilst you get on top of the IM version? In the interim there might be an opportunity to provide the market with a popular subject even if it is a limited run offer?

Thanks guys, very much appreciate the kind words. I'm glad you like how the seat turned out. I may add a couple of blueish ankle straps either side of the pull handle before I've finished to bring a little colour into the darkness. I agree John, the throttle is woeful. It wouldn't have taken much extra tooling to include a separate part. As you point out, it's quite a large component. There is a semblance of the throttle molded onto the panel but it's pretty inadequate. This particular model is destined to sit with it's canopy closed. Additionally, I think I may need to dull the transparency a bit to better resemble the full sized bird so almost all of the cockpit below the canopy sill will be partially obscured. Looking at the builds by Rockie Yarwood and Madmax I think I should have a go at adding the canopy sills. If I am able to they will hide much of the cockpit panels from view. Your comment did remind me that Revell also missed another obvious component though.....the canopy ejection handle by the pilot's left knee. Thanks for the nudge. Cheers, Guy

Very neat and tidy work. How odd that the tailplanes fit so poorly.

Hello everyone. Hope you're all doing well. It's been a while but work has continued gently amidst life stuff. I got the seat painted and after studying @Madmax (Sean's) build I added more detail to the head box. I've aimed for a faded, dusty look. Next up is the cockpit. Revell have done a reasonable job on the tub for the most part but the detail is a little low relief. Nevertheless, since very little can be seen I just tried to pick out the molded in detail. Detail behind the seat is pretty good but it's virtually invisible once the fuselage encloses the tub. A couple of obvious features need adding though. Aft of the seat on the starboard side is a red wheel and cable mechanism that's strangely missing from the kit. On the port side there's quite a large cylinder and cables on a shelf alongside the back of the seat that are suggested in the kit but they need beefing up. I used Airscale instrument decals on the IP Not absolutely accurate but given what will be visible eventually, good enough. Control column and pedals next. Cheers, Guy

Whole heartedly agree. The base is enormously convincing.

Perhaps you could sculpt a crew helmet bag or kit bag for the front seat around a fishing weight? Any ordnance on the stub wings that you could load up with weight in it's nose?

I believe the first release included a poster for pre-orders? I may have dreamt it of course That recce Spit would sit nicely on the man cave wall. Edit* I took a peep at the Kotare site and the box art for the Spitfire Va is equally choice. Bravo Kotare. @Mark Robson and @rsanz..... go on, you know you want to

Excellent result Max.