I’ve decided to try a project…4 1/48 Spitfires at one time…
Occidental MK IXe
ICM Mk IXc
Academy FR Mk XIVe
Academy MK XIVc
Tonight is cockpit night…I’ll post a few photos as I go…from start to finish, on all 4 birds.
Stay tuned…it’s either gonna be real cool or get real ugly… [:D]
Jeff Herne
Gee, maybe I could have thought of something like that, like four Me 262s instead of four different Luftwaffe AC. Oh, well. I’m nearly done. Another week or so.
The “production line” concept worked well for me. I only had to clean the airbrush 1/4 as many times as if I had done them separately. Good luck on the project !
i am going to have to do a production line build when i start my battle of britain memorial flight set (yep the big set with all of them in) and the other three spits and four hurricanes. ho and the other four lancs (not including the dam buster that i am working on)…ho god what have i done???LoL . looks like i am oing to be busy cos these are fairly near the top of my to build pile.
Greg
battle of britain group build maybe for a future project then?![8D][8D][8D]
jeff, i’m well impressed with 4 spits a once by the way!![:)]
I can’t wait to see some one do 4 Academy 1/32 F/A-18’s at once! [;)]
Oh, and what’s “Academy FR”? Does it mean Academy france, or am I being daft because FR is a prefix for the spitfire?
Hi Shrikes, it stands or “fighter recon”
FR - Flies Rapidly, Flaps Required…
J
UPDATE: I have 3 of the 4 cockpits built, the Occidental and ICM pits were easy, the Academy pits are a bit more tough because everything must be glued into the fuselage half…so here’s the low-down thus far…
Cockpits:
Easiest to build - Occidental
Toughest to build - Academy
Best detail - Academy
Most confusing - Academy
Best engineered - ICM
I’ve found that the ICM kit gives you the options of doing just about every variant of the IX…so I think I’m going to do the late-production LF IXC with the 4 20mm. You can model the early and late rudders, C or E wing, and clipped, regular, or HF extended wingtips…I think I see another group project coming just from this single kit…they’re actually inexpensive now…and it includes a complete Merlin as well.
Jeff
What made you decide to build 4 at a time? What schemes are you thinking of doing? Any Belgian ones…?
you tell him dj!![;)][:)]
4 at one time, because I want to build but I’m lazy (but ambitious)…so, I figured instead of 4 rounds of interior green paint through the brush, I’d only need one…same with all the rest. Typically, I build one at a time until it’s time to paint, then I put the model aside until there’s something else to paint that falls within the same color scheme…one-off building, batch painting. This time I decided to do them all at the same time…
All will be RAF squadron markings, and all will be wearing D-day stripes. The theme for NJ IPMS’ contest this year is Liberation 1944, so that was my reasoning. It’s a smaller component of my collection build for the Nationals, which is D-day aircraft of each of the air forces…the RAF group is first, I hope to have the 4 Spitfires, a Typhoon, Mosquito, and Beaufighter. In the USAAF group will be a P-51B/C, P-51D, P-38, P-47D-25, P-47D-30, A-20, and B-26. The Luftwaffe will a bit different, I’ll be doing Bodenplatte aircraft, so it’s a variety of 109s and 190s.
Jeff
Update…ok, I’m a glutton for punishment…I realized I was out of RAF interior green, so I run down to my local shop, and the owner has a table with a bunch of ‘closeout’ kits on it…and I bought the Hobbycraft Seafire XV for $6…so now it’s 5 Spitfires, not 4…
Oh yea, all the cockpits are done, and I’m firing up the airbrush in a few minutes.
Jeff
Jeff…I take my hat off to you. 4 spits in one go? It took me 6 months to build one!
Good luck! I can’t wait to see 'em!
Darren.
Update: All 5 cockpits are installed, painted, drybrushed and ready for me to close up the fuselage halves…here’s a pic from about 3 hours ago. This was before I painted the seats their proper red-brown color…
From top to bottom: ICM Mk IX, Occidental Mk IX, Academy FR XIVe, Academy XIVc, and the Hobbycraft Seafire XV…
Jeff tell how that ICM kit goes together. I just ordered 5 IXe,VIII,VII.XVI,LFIX you are right they are inexpensive now. JOHN
By the way the 5 are looking good so far!!!
Wow, 5 now! Exciting stuff…!
great stuff! looks like pix isn’t the only mass production machine!
and you took Adolf Galland’s advice to Herman Goring…
“We need spitfires!”
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Good golly!! Thats awsome!
Hi Jeff
4 Spitfires and 1 Seafire? Are you doing any sort of research at all?
Cheers
Bob S.
Research?? Of course not. In fact, I’m going to paint them with John Deer green spraypaint…lmao…I’m kidding of course. Here’s my Spitfire stuff…
British Aviation Colors 1939-45 (with paint chips)
Spitfires and Polished metal (color pics of Historic Flying’s Spitfire projects)
Spitfire in Action
Spitfire - RAF Fighter by Ron Dick
Spitfire - Albert Price
Fighter and Bomber Squadrons at War - Andrew Brookes
Spitfire - Watanabe
Aero Details on MK I-V and Griffon Engined Spits.
Arco-Aircram Spitfire MK IX-24
Aircraft of RAAF 1921-‘71
Battle of Britain – Hurricane, Spitfire, Me-109 (Aircam 1)
British Air Force Colors of WW2 – Official RAF
RAF Fighters Vol. 1
Spitfire XII – 24 (Aircam 8)
Supermarine Spitfire – Profile Publications
I think that should just about cover things for me…
Jeff
take good care of the ocidental one i´ts made in Portugal, hehe, i never thought you would have it in the states. Hope its a good kit