1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk Vb

 by Konley Kelley

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I just finished the great 1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk Vb Trop.  What a great kit.  Tamiya has really made a winner here.  I think the Volkes filter looks cool on this plane.  This looks like an aircraft Jay Leno would fly.

This model wears decals from AeroMaster's "Defenders of Malta, part II" so I could make the Spit for top scoring Canadian Ace, George "Screwball" Beurling.  He shot down 31 aircraft in the war.

I still suck at airbrushing, so I handpainted most of this bird. The colors are accurate, Azure Blue, Middlestone, and Dark Earth.

There are many aerial shots on the web of Malta.  I found a great one to use as a backdrop for my digital diorama.  A recent Stuka build helped me create an unfortunate Stuka crew that ran into Beurling over Malta.

This is now part of my "Aces in 1:48 Scale" collection of digital dioramas on my website.  For more, see www.shortfuse3d.com.
Konley 

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Photos and text © by Konley Kelley