MikeGB

Thanks for all the previous help and suggestions, think I am making some progress but have a few more questions. Some of the acrylic paint I have brushed on has not stuck very well, does everything need priming or would something like a rub with a fine scotch bright pad help? I am finding a few bad spots in the moldings where they join, is there any sort of filler for stuff like this? There is a circular recess on the top of the fuselage, just behind the firewall and I can't see anything in the instructions about it, what is supposed to go in there?

Think I have an adapter on the way that will connect the airbrush to a PCL type airline fitting. I have been brush painting some small internal parts with the paint that came with the kit, not sure but think it is acrylic and the green and black went on OK but tried some silver and it is odd, behaves a bit like mercury or something, won't stay in a film, tried washing it off and giving parts a good wash in soapy water but no difference, even a rub with a fine scotch pad does not stop it completely, does the paint need to go in the bin?

Thanks for that, think I will just go with gluing. Got an airbrush but wondering if they are OK to use indoors or are they like rattle-cans and cover everything in sight, though haven't found an adapter to connect it to a standard air line fitting yet. Also, is water OK to thin acrylic or is proper thinner better? Is there any way to get email notifications from the forum, looked through all my account settings but don't see anything about subscribing to topics.

Thanks for the reply's. The Spitfire is A12001 and the FW190 is A16001A. I have just got the Spitfire motor done and it's not fitting in the fuselage anywhere near as well as the one in the pics, the panel frames seem quite badly distorted and part 157 on the side of the motor is holding it a long way off. Will have to give some thought to a wing spar, hope this won't upset anyone but I'm not too concerned about the angle being accurate as long as they look reasonably straight. Don't know about doing more after these two but we have got plenty of sources of compressed air and air brushes don't seem badly priced, it's just that I have never used one and the masking etc., seems quite involved.

Hi, After 50-odd years I find myself sitting in the spare bedroom with an Airfix kit again, tried getting the grand kids interested in something besides their phones and got presented with 2 kits the next time we visited them ! First I am tackling is a 1/24 Spitfire, it has the wing droop that I have read about on here and I find just taping the top and bottom panels together seems to fix it so does it need some kind of spar as some topics suggest? Front of the fuselage is a strange shape on one side as well. Also wondering about painting, is an airbrush the way to go or can a reasonable job be done with a brush? There also seems to be duplicated parts, I suspect they are for different variants but no info about them. If I do get this finished next is an FW190.