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.