Hi all. I built or
should I say bashed this model a while back. It all started out with a long
night of flying the online video game Fighter Ace III. ( Only Fighter Ace
Junkies are going to get this) I was up 9 kills in the North African room and
should have called it a night, but greed and too many beers got the better of
me. I decided to fly one last mission before calling it quits. I took off with
intention of flying from one base to another to see if I could find a lonely
Ju-88 or He-111 to shoot down. Unfortunately I found myself defending a Dakota
and a Spit V from three 109's. I wrote off the Dakota because it was
already smoking badly and helped out the Spit who had two of the 109's on it's
tail. I smoked the aft 109 in one pass and put a couple of hits into the second.
The second 109 broke off of the Spit and I tried follow. The Spit went after the
109 attacking the Dakota. I unfortunately was carrying to much speed when I
attacked the two 109's on the Spit's tail. I was lucky the first one went down.
The second 109 broke off to the left and I over shot. He rolled right onto my
tail. I took a couple of hits in the wing and fuselage before I could Split-S to
safety. I was surprised that the 109 tried to follow me and I was able to regain
some ability to attack. Unfortunately I was forced to do a head on pass at the
109. That was the end of the dogfight for me. I took multiple hits in the engine
and wing. My plane was smoking badly and the engine was barely running. I waited
for the 109 to come around on my six and finish me off but he never came back. I
must have hit him pretty hard. By this time I was too low to bail out and had to
crash land. Then the idea hit me. I needed to make a crashed Spitfire.
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Two days later I came out with
this. It is the basic Airfix Spit V trop. I built it straight out of the box
with kit decals. I used a dremel to thin out the plastic were I wanted to
represent battle damage later. The nose was cut off and I used crumpled up beer
can pieces and some pieces of wire to represent internal parts and the exposed
structure underneath cannon holes. I painted the aircraft silver and then used
Poly-S paints for the camo. The colors are not that accurate but the over all
effect makes the airplane look a bit sun faded. I used a combination of pastels,
paint and motor oil to make the plane look as if the engine was smoking and
leaking badly before the crash. The base is just a piece of foam board with some
model train materials sprinkled on it. I used an 8x10 picture frame as the base
frame. The older I get the more of a kid I become. Hope you enjoy.
Happy modeling
Andy
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