Thank you!
Well, the Spitfire XVI is finished now, but it was very laborious!!!
First, I have airbrushed Pébéo matt varnish this morning. Then on the afternoon, weathering with pastels, pigments and ink.
I'm not happy. It's a bad kit. Today, I encountered the following problems before to finish:
- Due to the bad plastic (very granulous), the transparent decals have silvering. I've tried to limit the effect but was not fully successful for the wings.
- The Pitot tube in PE sprong out of my hands. He had a point of cyano of it. Never recovered the part; I had to use the bad pitot of the kit as replacement part...
- The wheel tail broked in the process
- Gluing the radiators, I had to constate that there are not fitting well! Too late to correct that problem...
- Bad fitting of the windshield that needed for some paint correction
- The wheels legs are bad!!! There are "inverted"; I had to correct that.
At leats four times I had the intention to knock the kit and put it in my trashcan...
I'm just happy with my weathering and the fact that I'm stubborn: without that default, the kit would have been condamned.
I have better hope for the Tamiya Spitfire V...
