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just when i thought i was done for 2017.....i get a run on a model that had been on hold for a few months...i'd started this as a present for my mother inlaw,her father worked as a mechanic on spitfires in Darwin and PNG,so after doing a little sleuthing we worked out it was probably 79 Sqn he served with(we plan on contacting the war memorial to find out for sure)...so i found a 79 Sqn spitfire that i could get decals for(and many thanks to Don Williams for suppling them).
i used a spare Tamiya MKVb trop as the base as accuracy wasn't the primary thing it was to produce a nice model of a plane her father may have worked on....well it seems it's both closer to the original and further away...explanation to come.

25994844_1522864747750900_8189553409569645039_n by paul sabin, on Flickr

the kit is brilliant to build very easy construction and virtually no putty,after some of the model i'd done this year a dream.
25994794_1522864824417559_5200626010813295984_n by paul sabin, on Flickr
26114148_1522864784417563_3624568765741060201_n by paul sabin, on Flickr
26055577_1522864804417561_3321133499018630159_n by paul sabin, on Flickr

so....why further away from what i thought.......A58-262 was never assigned to a plane.....the real one was A58-252....DAMN you aeromaster!!!!!!!.

and the closer...A58-252 was one of the last batch of MKV's to arrive it had the narrow cannon blister's more like a MKVb than a MKVc.......and when it arrived at 79 Sqrn they put it through a lightening program that included the removal of the outer cannon stubs
raafspitfirepm_2 by paul sabin, on Flickr
raafspitfirepm_1 by paul sabin, on Flickr

so a real surprise indeed

and with my earlier MKVc malta version
26166498_1522874457749929_4303676849531020881_n by paul sabin, on Flickr
26114398_1522866324417409_5221065090954124764_o by paul sabin, on Flickr

it's been a fun project my mother inlaw likes it and once i get a display case it will be on display in her unit.

Well that came up a treat

Nice work Paul, as Graeme says, it came up a treat

Very nice build. I agree with Graeme & RayS.
Cheers, Wayne.

Very nice work there Paul - you sure can be very proud of this build! Always good to stay in the "good book" with the Mother-In-Law too! You sure inspire with your focus, productivity and enthusiasm! Wishing you a very productive 2018!

wish i'd taken this to expo
but seriously....it didn't end up in a special display case..........it's in her display cabinet ...i was amazed when she said you should put it in there.....so object achieved...in the good book with te mother inlaw

There can be no better reward for a married man than to be in the good books with the mother in law, well done