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Welcome to the club David!

Paul, really nice progress! (And thanks for the kind words about my belt painting ). We seem to be at about the same point - it's an enjoyable build. I must admit seeing that tin of Humbrol takes me back. Until I was about 22, I didn't realise there were any other brands that existed..

Cheers for that Guy! I do tend to try and watch what Jen puts out, but I must have missed this one..

They sure do! All helps with quicker stash reduction though Andy!

Thank you Ernest.

Superb paint job.

I often am!

Some decent progress tonight. The cockpit 'innards' are complete. I keep checking Hannants to see if a canopy masking set has become available for the 'early' Mk.I, but nothing has appeared yet. At this rate, I'll be forced to mask it 'manually' ..

Thanks John. I'm looking forward to any further marks they want to throw at us! A Mk.Vc would be especially welcome, mind

Splendid work Tolga!

Well, I buck the trend here then, as I have built one Airfix 1:24 Spitfire and I have another 6 in the stash, as I want to do the full Mark.IX/XVI range 'early', 'late' etc. including the 'e' wing - so I purchased one of these sets from Ali. One of them is earmarked to convert to a XIV as Mathieu at Laminar Flow has indicated he'll be doing a 1:24 XIV conversion!

I haven't built Eduard's Mark II Tempest, but I did build their Mark V.. A lot of the cockpit parts had come off the sprue and indeed some of them had got damaged - so I had to repair them before I started! I just wish they'd apply their current levels of kit creation to 1:32 scale. I really enjoyed building quite a few of their WW2 1:48 models. Having said that, I'm really looking forward to see what you do with this John, being a big fan of your previous builds! PS: There's quite a few videos of the recently restored airworthy Mark.II on YouTube, which is actually in a silver scheme quite similar to the one you've chosen!

Best wishes John!

Another Vallejo vote here. That and Dissolved Putty are my two 'go-to' filling products

Thanks Troy - it's a pleasure. Thank you Håkan. Yes, they are quite tiny aren't they! My photo is magnified so much and I think it's a testament of how good they are that they still look realistic. Cheers Paul. Yeah, I went with green as a 'balance of probability' thing.. and it made a change from painting a Spitfire seat 'bakelite red' !! I'm probably in the minority, but I do prefer a good moulded on belt option. I can just never make PE belts look right and as for the fabric type ones - my modelling life is too short to fiddle with them!