Totalize Posted October 8, 2018 Posted October 8, 2018 (edited) Completed! No.41 Squadron RAF, Summer 1941. This MKIIa was donated to 41 Squadron by the 1st Canadian Infantry Division. Pilot: Pilot Officer Henry Lloyd Maurice Young, RCAF. KIFA 10/28/1941. Commonwealth War Graves Commission information: https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2407239 ** I took artistic licence by adding the 4 kills since they made the model look nicer**** build log: Edited December 5, 2019 by Totalize Alain Gadbois, malky761, AlanG and 30 others 33
CATCplSlade Posted October 8, 2018 Posted October 8, 2018 (edited) Firsties! Terrific job. Now I should finish mine. Edited October 8, 2018 by CATCplSlade
LSP_K2 Posted October 8, 2018 Posted October 8, 2018 Looks just great to me. In your opinion, is this kit much of an improvement over the old Revell/Hasegawa hybrid?
Wouter Posted October 8, 2018 Posted October 8, 2018 Great paintjob David, indeed very natural. Only bit I would nitpick about is the large patch of aluminium at the wing root (a bit to big to my taste). CATCplSlade 1
Totalize Posted October 8, 2018 Author Posted October 8, 2018 7 hours ago, CATCplSlade said: Firsties! Terrific job. Now I should finish mine. Thanks a bunch. I would say go for it. I hope you can finish yours sooner than I did mine.
Totalize Posted October 9, 2018 Author Posted October 9, 2018 Thank you all. Your comments are much appreciated. Wouter. Thanks for the feedback. Point taken. Some pictures of Spits show minimal bare aluminum wear at the port ring root but I found after looking at tons of pictures that even some of the spits with minimal weathering had large amounts of bare aluminum wear on the port side. So, I guess I could have gone either way on this one but chose the heavy wearing path. Just a matter of personal taste I guess.
LSP_Ron Posted October 9, 2018 Posted October 9, 2018 I'd say that the wing root wear is pretty common for well used Spits. Somewhere I have a rear view of one that really shows wear but I can't find it right now. Model_Monkey, MikeC, Totalize and 2 others 5
Trak-Tor Posted October 9, 2018 Posted October 9, 2018 Great model and excellent pictures! Congratulations! Juraj
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