I know this breaks every rule in our book, and I’m only doing it out of desperation and won’t repeat it: I suddenly had a deadline project dropped on me, which in a nutshell requires building and borderline superdetailing a Trumpeter 1/24 scale Spitfire floatplane. Since I haven’t built a Spit in more than 20 years (I’m not kidding), the only reference I have for it is the old Squadron In Action book.
I’m willing to trade all three of the Eduard detailing frets for the CH-46 kit (the new 1/48 Academy kit) plus the masking set, if someone can offer me Spitfire reference books, or one really good book. For that matter, I have frets in 1/48 for everything in the modern US inventory, still in the package, as well as masks to go with them.
See, the reason I’m sticking my neck out for someone to chop it off this way, is because I have six weeks to finish this project, and that includes writing about how I did it. Normally, it takes me six weeks to finish a cockpit. And that’s working on it every day! But the whole airplane with all that delicate Waldron AM stuff?
On top of that, I have been told to put a set of resin correction parts on it that will require sawing the fuselage in half and adding a plug.
Any help would be appreciated and rewarded with whatever I have that you might want. I’ve got five pounds of PE frets in a box right now. I have lots of expensive, exotic decal and dry transfer sheets I no longer need for professional purposes. I also have a number of 1/32 frets, especially a large number for the HAS FW-190A-5 and A-8 kits, as well as the masks.
Please don’t flame a desperate man too badly, fellows. As I said, this is a one-time crime.
TOM