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The cockpit with door open. The early Spitfires did not have the crowbar in the door. There are a lot of raised rivets...

A friend's father flew with the 527th FBS, 86th FBG so I had to build the Accurate Miniatures kit. This photo is often ...

The Blast resin radios on the Voyager PE radio racks.

The fuselage machine guns are from the Eduard Brassin set. The plumbing and wiring in the engine compartment and on the...

This specific aircraft had the engine covers removed. I used styrene rod to replicate the steel pipe frame in the engin...

This is the Revell Germany kit which is a release of the old Eduard model.

This specific aircraft did not have the above wing fuel tank. The kit does not include the tank which was installed on ...

Here is the prop finished and installed on the aircraft.

The nose canopy fit is poor

Finally finished. It always takes me a while to get the laminated look of the propeller finished.

Yes you can see the thick spots on the cowl. Maybe I'll have to build a Fokker DR. I to experiment with thinning that o...

The Rigging is Infini Aero rigging. I pre-drilled all the holes and glued one end into the wing then pulled it through ...

The gunsight and MG blast tubes are Albion Alloys .7mm brass tubing.

The finish is AK Interactive Real Color RC309 AII Green on the upper surfaces with some of the metal panels painted in R...

It's finally completed after 42 years in the stash. The kit dates back to 1971, so there are a lot of issues with fit. ...

I did some weathering with chalks and then locked it in with flat coat. It doesn't show up that well after the flat.

I might have gone a little heavy on the exhaust stain, but the radials were dirty engines.

Finally completed. It was a fun build and didn't take too long.

Finished and in the display configuration I'll use for display.