This is going to be the mega thread to hold my various crafting stuff. If it's not your bag, please feel free to mute the entire thread (or me, of course).
I'm gonna have multiple threads branching off from this parent, it'll get gnarly, so hashtags will abound.
Right. Attempt #2 at my #BattleOfBritain #Spitfire Mk1a underwing painting.
Actually really pleased with this outcome, definitely more panel-liney. And I guess the (what is now) white undercoat for the port wing might allow similar effect once I lay down the black on that side.
And then a few other colours to lay down on upper surfaces.
And then comes a LOT of cutting different sized circles from masking tape.
Any #modelling Tooters got any tips for ensuring roundel centring using masking?
There we go! That's looking a lot happier.
Or at least a much more #WWII early war appropriate #Spirltfire.
You'd never believe I double checked which wing was which before even starting to lay down any paint, huh? 😬
Still. It's only #modelling - and really, I think it's more than likely that only I would have ever noticed the mistake in the first place....
And that, ladies and gentlethem, is the underside of this #Spitfire #model painted.
Remarkable the difference using acrylics has in working time. This would've taken about a week in my usual Humbrol enamels, taken about 6 hours today...
And here we have the first hints of my usual "let's go #offBook and see what happens..." starting to appear on this #Spitfire #Airfix #model.
@IceNine yes. I was... Unimpressed. 🤣
Only because I'm currently 40% of the way thru trying to make their original moulding play ball 🙄
@phil_tanner only 95 quid.
So $280 here? 🙄
Phil Tanner
Ice Nine