I enjoy watching scale model aircraft videos. This color scheme with the unique weathering, really added amazing character and depth to the spitfire. Beautiful work!!! New subscriber!
This was an inspirational build, thank you for sharing this beautiful piece. The Merlin at the end, and the flybys were the cherry on top! I'm actually building Revells 1/32nd scale Mk XIc right now so I will try to use some of your techniques in that.
Very nice paintwork, love to see all the shading and the idea of having the blue chipped through is very cool looking. The larger more rectangular radiator is the liquid coolant radiator. The more circular one is the oil cooler.
@@machmodels How about a really heavily weathered Beaufighter?! I've seen a brief glimpse of a really lovely one that you've done, but there are some great reference photos of ones that look like incredibly beaten up.
I've only recently gotten into model building with Gunpla and I find these videos lovely. I'm not the sort to build regular models, what with painting and gluing. So it's interesting to watch someone else put one together.
Looks awesome, i have never seen someone do weathering like that before but it looks great, it adds so much interest too the build! Tempted to get anouther spitfire now, even though i already have 2 😂. All you vids and planes are great man ❤.
On your weathering I like it. I really feel many often over do it sometimes, yours, seems to be well balanced. I do like how you did the paint scheme as well worn.
Thank you very much! Glad to hear that you enjoy the weathering, I’ve been trying to find the mid ground between the two extremes and I’m somewhat happy at where I have ended up👌🏻☺️
Awesome build with a different paint scheme. What I like about your videos is you’re always honest about your mistakes & flubs, & you talk to your audience intelligently. Keep up the great work!
Hello mr. Mach!ohhh she is such a beauty with her swift,swung lines.you definatly brought that Baby to life!Thank you 4sharing.with best regards and sticky greetings your modellmate.christian
Welcome back from your break Luke, hope your time at RIAT was good, with a bit of luck I will be getting tickets for next year. Fab looking Spitfire and I love the worn down to its original camo!
Excellent, thanks. I enjoyed that. Well done on doing something different with a Spitfire. 👏🏻 FWIW the vallejo model air Mediterranean RAF colours set are very accurate colours to my eye but obvs colour is very subjective. It's a useful set to have around.
Thank you very much! For me personally, I have never managed to get on with the Vallejo paints all that well. However, a paint set might not be a bad idea!😁
As always, I love seeing the attention to detail you put into your models (even the details you know aren't easily seen). With regards to the weathering, it's all down to the models. The older the scheme you are going for the more weathering you'll have. I always look forward to getting notifications of new videos, even if I can't get to watch them on day of release.
Excellent work as always. Love this scheme. One small point... The crowbar on the cockpit door. These were NEVER painted red during WW2. It was a post WW2 thing - a very common mstake by a lot of modellers.
Hi Luke, The end result really works and I for like it a lot.Some comments I pulled the Instructions up just to see what other schemes were available, (I also like C, D) noticed that the outline of original scheme was still visible under the blue, but your version just works better IMO, 2.I recently purchased some of Mr Hobby panel liner and mine didn't have a brush with it, assuming that's how they come, a used clean Tamiya extra thin brush slots straight on to the lid. Cheers
Thank you very much! I was looking at the schemes as well and I think there was just so much potential that it would’ve been rude not to show more of that underlying camo. Yup! The Mr Weathing Colour doesn’t come with a brush (for some reason) so I just use a spare brush that I have lying around, but, that is a good idea!😁
The first batches of Spitfire Vbs sent to Malta were left in there brand new desert camouflage. Malta being a small island, and the intensity of the air battle meant the Spitfires were airborne most of the time. The desert camo showed up like a sore thumb over the deep blue Mediterranean from above. So the next batches of Spitfires were crudely painted in an improvised Mediterranean camouflage. Now from above they were much harder to spot by the enemy aircraft as they were climbing out over the sea to intercept. As you say Wasp, an American carrier was used to help, so maybe some paint may have been slapped on from US navy wildcats. Who knows. I assume all the stencilling detail would have been over painted. Aircraft still surviving on the ground also had the sand part of the camouflage crudely painted blue, so there's some Mediterranean blue and dark brown examples. The Malta campaign is fascinating if you want to create a unique looking Spit. Nice work.
I read that the Malta blue Spits were overpainted with any blue paints they had at the time....I always loved George Buerlings Malta Spit T-D (BR130) because of the mishmash of replacement rudder and engine cowls...By the way your weathering looks great...I'm a big fan of weathering models...
Your build is very nice. Eduard made a molding error with all their Mark I to Mark V Spitfire fuselages. They acknowledge this and provide a fix in the instructions - to fill the panel line on the forward fuselage halves. Unfortunately this procedure appears to be in most RUclips modelling content creators' blind spots as very few builds I see on RUclips follow the filling instruction. There is no separate panel immediately behind the spinner at the top of the fuselage - the top of the cowling is a single panel. Reference photos of Mark V noses (plenty available using Google or other searches) will confirm this. I only mention this as it's an oft repeated error and others may wish to build the most accurate scale model airframe that this excellent kit can provide.
Thank you for all of that great information! Hopefully it’ll help out future projects for all of us, and hopefully make people not follow my slightly bad guide!🤣👌🏻
Beautiful build, Luke. I love watching you work. Do you have problems with shaking hands or tremors? If so, how do you compensate for them? Glad you had a good holiday. Cheers!
Thank you very much! For me, not so much. If I do have a spell of getting a bit shaky I’ll just get up and leave for a bit and stretch out my hands before going back to it. If that doesn’t work… just get absolutely hammered on beer!🤣😁
Super interesting paint scheme. Would a Mk.Vb work for a Malta based Spitfire? Now I want to build one after watching you and I have a Mk.Vb sitting around.
Looks good, the pre shading in the blue came out well. Have you considered peeling the carrier film of Eduard's decals? It can be done easily with the assistance of enamel thinner. To answer your first question I use MRP-111 RAF Interior Grey Green for raf cockpits. Ppl who nerd out about those colors more than me say it's the most accurate version. Since you like mr color you should try MRP. It comes pre thinned and sprays beautifully, it feels like cheating tbh. Keep up the good work, look forward to seeing your next project!
Thank you! Hmmm I’ll have to have a think about peeling, always feels so unnatural to me! I’ll look into it. Thank you for the colour recommendation! I’ll definitely have a look into them👌🏻😁
It looks good but I'm.not sold on how much paint is missing in one area usually it would be where the wing guns and ammo goes and maybe the area where the pilot climbs in. Bursting that. Love the blue.
Thank you, I very much appreciate that. I think I have classed this more as an artistic way to show the story behind this airframe, and I do acknowledge that this airframe never got anywhere near this battered. Nonetheless thank you very much for the comment, I hope this gives a bit of clarity to what I was going for👌🏻😁
Wow, another excellent build. I just love this channel. It helps me upgrade my modeling skills. I have just one question, I'm going to build Eduard's mk.ix in jonnie Johnsons aircraft. I'm guessing this aircraft being a commanders aircraft would not have much weathering . Do you agree?
Obviously great work from you, as always! This Spitfire really does have an interesting scheme, and something different than the regular RAF tropical camo or the other RAF camo. By the way, do you think the Mr colour paints would require any training if I’ve used Ammo before, as the Mr Colour paints seem to have some specific colours I can’t find from Ammo.
Thank you! If you are feeling really in the dark about the mr hobby paints, chuck me and email and I’ll walk you through them down at hannants. I’ll bring my airbrush and all so you can really get used to them👌🏻😁
Great to hear! I do have a really tight schedule and plans for the next couple of weekends, but I will definitely contact you when I will have the time!
Have you noticed your VMS varnish gunks up your airbrush? Even spraying it using a .5 needle it gunks my airbrush up bad. Any suggestions? Keep up the great work
ohhh jess :) eduard . wats the ratio of the mr.retarder with the color and thinner ? greets. and mean the finishing parts afther painting looks amazin gclean and grait.
Awesome looking build. Definitely off the more interesting paint schemes I've seen on a Spitfire.
Thank you very much! It stood out as a rather interesting scheme to bring to life👌🏻
I ‘be never seen blue on a Spitfire before. It works, I love the color blue you used too
Spitfire of Canadian George Beurling (july 1942)
The Falcon of Malta.
Thank you very much! Always love the slightly more unique aircraft that’s for sure!😁🤣
I enjoy watching scale model aircraft videos. This color scheme with the unique weathering, really added amazing character and depth to the spitfire. Beautiful work!!! New subscriber!
Very nicely done.....youre a talented bloke! 👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻
Enjoyed that muchly.
Thank you very much sir! Really appreciate it☺️👌🏻
Brilliant model. Looks even better in real life. Great to have met you at Hannants today.
Thank you sir! Great to have met you too! Hopefully see you down there again soon👌🏻
Very nice scale model. At first i didnt care for your exhaust staining, but the final result is excellent. Thank you for the build and video.
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it👌🏻😉
That is a very cool marking choice. Excellent work!
Thank you very much sir!👌🏻😁
Welcome back Luke! Another fantastic build, and I really like thd blue scheme. Fantastic work. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it😁👌🏻
excellent exhaust staining - nice work
Thank you very much!👌🏻
Superb work sir!
I will definitely consider this for my next model
Keep up the excellent work!
Thank you very much! Definitely go for it! It is superb!👌🏻
Really enjoyed watching your paintwork. Gave me some great ideas for my current Airfix Spit build.
Cheers
Thank you very much! Glad it was “inspiring”☺️👌🏻
This was an inspirational build, thank you for sharing this beautiful piece. The Merlin at the end, and the flybys were the cherry on top! I'm actually building Revells 1/32nd scale Mk XIc right now so I will try to use some of your techniques in that.
Thank you very much! Haha always great to hear the Merlin’s. Best of luck with the build!😁
Very nice paintwork, love to see all the shading and the idea of having the blue chipped through is very cool looking.
The larger more rectangular radiator is the liquid coolant radiator. The more circular one is the oil cooler.
Thank you for letting me know! Really appreciate it😁👌🏻
Nice work Luke, hope you had a good holiday...
Thank you John! It was a nice little break but I was missing the bench, that’s for sure!🤣
@@machmodels Glad to have you back...
Lovely job. I'm a bit obsessed with Malta based planes - such great opportunities for interesting schemes and weathering.
Thank you! I think after this I might be as well!🤣👌🏻
@@machmodels How about a really heavily weathered Beaufighter?! I've seen a brief glimpse of a really lovely one that you've done, but there are some great reference photos of ones that look like incredibly beaten up.
Luke building my most favourite plane of WWII era in blue is just sooo amazing! Love it! Great job!
Thank you very much buddy!
Very nice kit build Spitfire nice aircraft & detailing. Love Spitfires & Hurricanes.
Thank you very much! Don’t we all👌🏻😁
I've only recently gotten into model building with Gunpla and I find these videos lovely. I'm not the sort to build regular models, what with painting and gluing. So it's interesting to watch someone else put one together.
Always a good place to start with Gunpla, but soon you’ll make your way over to the planes and you’ll never stop! Thanks very much for the comment👌🏻😁
Great work and an awesome scheme 👏
Thank you sir!👌🏻☺️
wow! Great paint scheme choice and superb weathering
Thank you very much!😁
Love that irregular stencil, I'll have to get one of those!
They are a superb tool!
Absolutely brilliant. Loved the painting techniques.
Thank you! Very glad you enjoyed it👌🏻😁
Looks awesome, i have never seen someone do weathering like that before but it looks great, it adds so much interest too the build! Tempted to get anouther spitfire now, even though i already have 2 😂.
All you vids and planes are great man ❤.
Thank you sir! Definitely out there - you can never have enough spitfires👌🏻😉
you nkow its a good day when mach modells post amazing build/paint scheme
Pahaha thank you very much sir!
On your weathering I like it. I really feel many often over do it sometimes, yours, seems to be well balanced. I do like how you did the paint scheme as well worn.
Thank you very much! Glad to hear that you enjoy the weathering, I’ve been trying to find the mid ground between the two extremes and I’m somewhat happy at where I have ended up👌🏻☺️
Awesome ❤❤❤
Thank you very much!😁👌🏻
Nice build, Luke.
Thank you very much sir!
Awesome build with a different paint scheme. What I like about your videos is you’re always honest about your mistakes & flubs, & you talk to your audience intelligently. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much! Really appreciate all the feedback, means a lot👌🏻😁
Great video can’t wait for your next one
Thank you very much! You won’t have to wait long☺️👌🏻
Hello mr. Mach!ohhh she is such a beauty with her swift,swung lines.you definatly brought that Baby to life!Thank you 4sharing.with best regards and sticky greetings your modellmate.christian
Thank you very much Christian! Really happy that you enjoyed it👌🏻😁
Welcome back from your break Luke, hope your time at RIAT was good, with a bit of luck I will be getting tickets for next year. Fab looking Spitfire and I love the worn down to its original camo!
Thank you Brian! Well that’s perfect, I should be there for about 3 days next year so hopefully our paths will cross!👌🏻
@@machmodelswould be very cool if that happens 😎
Excellent, thanks. I enjoyed that. Well done on doing something different with a Spitfire. 👏🏻
FWIW the vallejo model air Mediterranean RAF colours set are very accurate colours to my eye but obvs colour is very subjective. It's a useful set to have around.
Thank you very much! For me personally, I have never managed to get on with the Vallejo paints all that well. However, a paint set might not be a bad idea!😁
As always, I love seeing the attention to detail you put into your models (even the details you know aren't easily seen). With regards to the weathering, it's all down to the models. The older the scheme you are going for the more weathering you'll have. I always look forward to getting notifications of new videos, even if I can't get to watch them on day of release.
Thank you very much! Really do appreciate the kind words. No rush to watch the videos, they aren’t going anywhere😁👌🏻
Excellent work as always. Love this scheme.
One small point... The crowbar on the cockpit door. These were NEVER painted red during WW2. It was a post WW2 thing - a very common mstake by a lot of modellers.
Thank you very much! Wow! Big whoopsies from me there, thank you for letting me know. What colour should it have been… metallic?👌🏻
@@machmodels - you'll probably be safe with a silver/grey colour.
That is a gorgeous spitfire!
Thank you very much!👌🏻
Love the scheme you choose bro! Always wanted to do a Spit like this, great video
Thank you very much sir! I think it’s time to see you take on one of these😄
Hi Luke, The end result really works and I for like it a lot.Some comments I pulled the Instructions up just to see what other schemes were available, (I also like C, D) noticed that the outline of original scheme was still visible under the blue, but your version just works better IMO, 2.I recently purchased some of Mr Hobby panel liner and mine didn't have a brush with it, assuming that's how they come, a used clean Tamiya extra thin brush slots straight on to the lid. Cheers
Thank you very much! I was looking at the schemes as well and I think there was just so much potential that it would’ve been rude not to show more of that underlying camo.
Yup! The Mr Weathing Colour doesn’t come with a brush (for some reason) so I just use a spare brush that I have lying around, but, that is a good idea!😁
Nice Spit
Thank you very much!👌🏻
Nice build.
I'm pretty sure that the tailplane/elevators were the extended balance horn type on the MkVc.
Thank you! I’m not too sure to be honest! I was following the Eduard instructions and I don’t think I missed anything!👌🏻
The first batches of Spitfire Vbs sent to Malta were left in there brand new desert camouflage. Malta being a small island, and the intensity of the air battle meant the Spitfires were airborne most of the time. The desert camo showed up like a sore thumb over the deep blue Mediterranean from above. So the next batches of Spitfires were crudely painted in an improvised Mediterranean camouflage. Now from above they were much harder to spot by the enemy aircraft as they were climbing out over the sea to intercept. As you say Wasp, an American carrier was used to help, so maybe some paint may have been slapped on from US navy wildcats. Who knows. I assume all the stencilling detail would have been over painted. Aircraft still surviving on the ground also had the sand part of the camouflage crudely painted blue, so there's some Mediterranean blue and dark brown examples. The Malta campaign is fascinating if you want to create a unique looking Spit. Nice work.
Thank you for all of the extensive information! Really appreciate it👌🏻😉
I always find it amusing the plane gets weathered on the outside, but the cockpit is pristine inside, usually they are more worn.
It’s a good point! And a trap I think I fall into, perhaps I’ll have to try some new techniques to enhance the weathered state of the cockpit👌🏻
I read that the Malta blue Spits were overpainted with any blue paints they had at the time....I always loved George Buerlings Malta Spit T-D (BR130) because of the mishmash of replacement rudder and engine cowls...By the way your weathering looks great...I'm a big fan of weathering models...
I heard this as well! Kind of led me to doing all those whacky post shading techniques! Thank you very much, really appreciate it😁👌🏻
Malta Blue over RAF Desert Temperate, cool...
Sure is cool!👌🏻
Your build is very nice. Eduard made a molding error with all their Mark I to Mark V Spitfire fuselages. They acknowledge this and provide a fix in the instructions - to fill the panel line on the forward fuselage halves. Unfortunately this procedure appears to be in most RUclips modelling content creators' blind spots as very few builds I see on RUclips follow the filling instruction. There is no separate panel immediately behind the spinner at the top of the fuselage - the top of the cowling is a single panel. Reference photos of Mark V noses (plenty available using Google or other searches) will confirm this. I only mention this as it's an oft repeated error and others may wish to build the most accurate scale model airframe that this excellent kit can provide.
Thank you for all of that great information! Hopefully it’ll help out future projects for all of us, and hopefully make people not follow my slightly bad guide!🤣👌🏻
Beautiful build, Luke. I love watching you work. Do you have problems with shaking hands or tremors? If so, how do you compensate for them? Glad you had a good holiday. Cheers!
Thank you very much! For me, not so much. If I do have a spell of getting a bit shaky I’ll just get up and leave for a bit and stretch out my hands before going back to it. If that doesn’t work… just get absolutely hammered on beer!🤣😁
Hello ! I'm building the Tamiya one with the Tilly and it's not bad either.
Very nice! I think I’ll have to compare them and try one out👌🏻
Super interesting paint scheme. Would a Mk.Vb work for a Malta based Spitfire? Now I want to build one after watching you and I have a Mk.Vb sitting around.
I would believe it would be able to happen! If not… just go for it anyway🤣
Looks good, the pre shading in the blue came out well. Have you considered peeling the carrier film of Eduard's decals? It can be done easily with the assistance of enamel thinner.
To answer your first question I use MRP-111 RAF Interior Grey Green for raf cockpits. Ppl who nerd out about those colors more than me say it's the most accurate version. Since you like mr color you should try MRP. It comes pre thinned and sprays beautifully, it feels like cheating tbh.
Keep up the good work, look forward to seeing your next project!
Thank you! Hmmm I’ll have to have a think about peeling, always feels so unnatural to me! I’ll look into it.
Thank you for the colour recommendation! I’ll definitely have a look into them👌🏻😁
It looks good but I'm.not sold on how much paint is missing in one area usually it would be where the wing guns and ammo goes and maybe the area where the pilot climbs in. Bursting that. Love the blue.
Thank you, I very much appreciate that. I think I have classed this more as an artistic way to show the story behind this airframe, and I do acknowledge that this airframe never got anywhere near this battered. Nonetheless thank you very much for the comment, I hope this gives a bit of clarity to what I was going for👌🏻😁
Wow, another excellent build. I just love this channel. It helps me upgrade my modeling skills. I have just one question, I'm going to build Eduard's mk.ix in jonnie Johnsons aircraft. I'm guessing this aircraft being a commanders aircraft would not have much weathering . Do you agree?
Thank you very much! Really appreciate it! I would say so, a panel wash and maybe some small amounts of chipping and I’d leave it there👌🏻😁
Very nice work. By the way, what painting stand is that you use?
Thank you! I use one from EBMA hobby👌🏻
Obviously great work from you, as always! This Spitfire really does have an interesting scheme, and something different than the regular RAF tropical camo or the other RAF camo. By the way, do you think the Mr colour paints would require any training if I’ve used Ammo before, as the Mr Colour paints seem to have some specific colours I can’t find from Ammo.
I use Mr Color a lot, it doesn't really require any special effort to use. It's a little on the thicker side I'd start with a 60% thinners mix
Thank you! If you are feeling really in the dark about the mr hobby paints, chuck me and email and I’ll walk you through them down at hannants. I’ll bring my airbrush and all so you can really get used to them👌🏻😁
Great to hear! I do have a really tight schedule and plans for the next couple of weekends, but I will definitely contact you when I will have the time!
@@KGmodelsno worries! You know where I am😄☺️
Ailerons are on the wings, elevators are on the tailplane.
Thank you for letting me know👌🏻
Have you noticed your VMS varnish gunks up your airbrush? Even spraying it using a .5 needle it gunks my airbrush up bad. Any suggestions? Keep up the great work
I have not, I always thin it down another 40%. So maybe give that a try!
Is CA glue used in this build?
You don’t use gloves… I’d have finger prints everywhere 😂
Ehh I’m just testing my luck, it’ll happen at some point I’m sure🤣🤣
If you can knock it off, leave it off :)
Oh this is a logic I can get behind🤣🤣
While you’re at it, tell the mechanics that it’s running a “little lean”.
Haha I will!🤣😁
Well. The massaging had a happy ending. 🙈
Hahah it did indeed! Thanks for the comment😁👌🏻
ohhh jess :) eduard . wats the ratio of the mr.retarder with the color and thinner ? greets. and mean the finishing parts afther painting looks amazin gclean and grait.
Thank you! I did not use Mr Retarder in this one👌🏻
The RAF interior green is not that vibrant, that’s more like USAF zinc chromate interior green, I use AK real colour RC967
Whoops my bad. I’ll try it out, thanks for the recommendation!👌🏻
Interesting but the RAF ground crew would never have let a spit take off in that condition. 🫡
Agreed! However, this was more intended as a way to show the story behind this aircraft. Many thanks for the comment😁👌🏻
@@machmodels It’s a lovely build. Well done. 👍🇦🇺🦘