Dear All,
This is my 1:48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk.Vb in USAAF markings. For a long time I have been planning British planes in American national
insignia. I guess a Beaufighter will follow this one.
As for aftermarket I used Eduard's colored seat belts, Quickboost resin
exhausts
and Colorado-carpena decals. Decals are provided my dear Friend Aykut
Bilir. Thanks goes him.
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The only question was if American Spitfires
have wing leading edge yellow bands like most of Spitfires. At that
point one of Turkey's 3 wisemen helped me; Tolga Ulgur.. (Others are Ahmet
Donmez and Ozkan Turker) Yes, He had sent me a pic and I realised that
these birds had that band...So there was no reason not to build it with
the yellow bands.
The only challenge was the decals, the massive size USAAF insignia on the wings didn't like microsol
solutions. After 48 hours fight, decals lost, solution won and decals settled
down.......I had to apply the solution
5-6 times.. :)
For painting, I used Gunze's laquer RAF. A big 'well done' goes Gunze
guys. It was the second plane I finished with Gunze laquers, result was really
great! (At least for me)
In the end, I would like to send my
best wishes to my dear bro Emad Tabsh from Beirut and celebrate all my
brothers's Ramadan.
And off course happy modelling for everyone!
Zafer Yilmaz
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