1/48 ACADEMY / DACO Spitfire FR.14e

Gallery Article by Tolga ULGUR on June 21 2010

 

This is 1/48 Spitfire FR.14e finished in the markings NH 915 / EB – H of  Lt. Derek Rake No 41 sqn  B118 Celle - Germany during spring 1945. 

The project was started a couple of years ago but due to some reasons it was reluctant to get back to work on it. Finally it was finished this spring.

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The base kit is from Academy.

It was very hard for me to continue with OOB because of  its dramatically wrong nose shape. So I decided to correct it by using Daco improvement set. I am still not sure that the problem is solved completely. But it is best to accept it as is and don’t make life unbearable.

Additionally some improvements applied into the cockpit.

  • -Eduard instrument panel

  • -Ultracast resin seat

  • -Ultracast resin Access door

The painting was done with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics as usual.

Upper surfaces painted to RAF Dark green / Ocean grey and the under surfaces to Medium sea grey. 

Moving canopy part is from Squadron .

Roundels and code letters are from several Xtradecal sets.  

** Reference: Osprey Publications –Griffon Spitfires

Happy Modelling

Tolga ULGUR

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Photos and text © by Tolga ULGUR