WiP - Kotare 1/32 Spitfire Mk.Ia (mid)

[DaveB]

Nice work and fast progress!

Regards

Dave

[RAGIII]

Excellent progress Zac. How was the fit on the spine and cowl. I have heard it is Outstanding but always good to get other opinions!
RAGIII

[KiwiZac]

Outstanding indeed! So far I've encountered no fit issues other than the fuselage spine seems a tad thinner than where it meets the fuselage.

[Brad Cancian]

Looking great and coming along nicely Zac!

I hope the homework goes well - remember, L = (1/2) ρ v^2 s CL 

Cheers!

BC

[Dutch522]

Coming along nicely, Zac, that looks to be one beautiful kit. Being a stickler for obscure details, I'm curious to know whether Kotare included the red WHEELS DOWN indicators that popped up on the wings when the gear was extended...?

Good luck with the classes, and if I'm ever in NZ I'm gonna hold you to that Grand Tour offer!

Dave V.

[KiwiZac]

Work progressed over the weekend, mainly painting undercarriage and wing components - not much to show off at this point. But it IS going together quite fast...would be going faster if I wasn't doing a paint scheme with a white wing 

I hope the homework goes well - remember, L = (1/2) ρ v^2 s CL 

Today we learned how to remove lockwire and cotter (split) pins and tomorrow we learn how to fit them...that equation seems a tad more advanced than our current stage! 

Being a stickler for obscure details, I'm curious to know whether Kotare included the red WHEELS DOWN indicators that popped up on the wings when the gear was extended...?

I'm very pleased to confirm it does!

[dr 1 ace]

Looks sooooo good, who needs am bits...

Will useyour thread when I get to mine...

Ed

[KiwiZac]

Looks sooooo good, who needs am bits...

To be honest I'd quite like to add radio boxes etc as there are two access panels on the fuselage moulded separately and it felt weird cementing them closed. Next time!

[Dutch522]

Cool beans. I'm mightily impressed that they included the little indicator masts... but from all I've heard about the standards set by their former employers I guess I shouldn't be surprised at all.

Dave V.

[KiwiZac]

Hi all,
Progress has been at a standstill as I've been bogged down with study and 1/1 aircraft work - the kit is great and the delays are all down to me and my time management! Rest assured I'll be back on it in the near future.

[KiwiZac]

I hope "two months later" counts as "near future", her's a photo from October 21"
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr

After realising using a hairy stick to apply white to the wing underside would not result in a satisfactory finish worthy of this lovely kit I decided to use Tamiya Surface Primer to cover up my mistake (the above photo was after the first coat, I could've sworn I took one after all was done). Christmas holidays are coming up so I'm hopeful I'll be able to get back onto this with a couple of rattlecans, after which swift progress should resume. Unfortunately I don't yet have said paint and my student finances haven't allowed me to get the paint yet.

And besides all that I've been laid low since the 3rd of this month with a particularly vicious flu - proper flu, not just a cold - that's seen me almost pass out at school and bedridden for almost two weeks now. Rest assured I want to work on this beauty (you may have also noticed me posting less on the forum) but things have just not been going my way!

[Dutch522]

Looks good, Zac! I saw one of these kits at the IPMS show I went to last month, but opted for the WnW Le Rhône Camel instead... I’ve loved Spitfires since building my first 1/72 Revell kit circa 1964, though, and am pretty sure there's a Kotare waiting to waylay me somewhere down the line.

Dutch
(And I hope it was regular old garden-variety turn-you-inside-out flu, and not the five-letter variety... ?)

[Borsos]

Building models is nothing for the impatient 
Nice progress and good for your interior to spray outside (ask me where I know this from…)
Andreas

[KiwiZac]

(And I hope it was regular old garden-variety turn-you-inside-out flu, and not the five-letter variety... ?)

Tests keep coming back negative for the five-letter C-word, but if I spend too long upright I begin to get very fatigued. I tried some bench time yesterday and managed a few minutes, will try again later today as it's been several weeks since I've been able to work on any models.