1/48 Italeri Spitfire Mk.XVIe

by Patrick Vossenberg

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Although I mostly build jet aircraft, every now and then I try something different like this 1/48 Spitfire Mk.XVIe in Belgian airforce markings. This is the Italeri kit, a reboxing of the older but still quite nice Occidental kit. This was a rather simple build, with the aircraft being constructed largely out of the box without any major problems, I just added a couple of items from an Eduard zoom set in the cockpit (instrument panel, some side panel details, gunsight and seat belts).

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Colours are all Humbrol enamels, the nicely thin decals are from the kit and worked out very well.  Weathering is a combination of pre- and postshading, followed by a wash with thinned enamels to enhance the panel lines.  Finally, some paint chipping was done with a silver pencil.

Hope you like the pics! 

Regards from Belgium,

Patrick

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Photos and text © by Patrick Vossenberg