Blood Red Skies – Painting the Spitifre
March 26, 2018 by johnlyons
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Nice work John!
Great stuff
nice work! takes me back to painting Airfix with my dad as a ten year old, the Spitfire was my entry to the hobby – dad still has it on a shelf somewhere…
Oh, man! @Johnlyons – you didn’t show the best ones, with the ventral and side fuselage roundels with the yellow ring around the outside!
Epic work – I gotta start airbrushing more of of my models with that matte varnish.
airbrushing the Matt really does gives a real nice finish doesn’t it.
Very nice job. But I think the unsteady painter I am will have me search the internet for some 1/200 decals for this…
I’ve got it on decent authority that they will have a decal sheet for them 🙂
Now that’s good news:-)
I still think it’s strange there sing 1/144 for this when the rest of the world usually uses 1/300. Thinking about it maybe it’s not so strange
@torros in our naval games we use 1/600 scale ..lol
I would use 1/600 for air games
1/144? Are you thinking of flames of war aircraft?
I was actually thinking about a WW1 range the name escapes me at the minute. Not sure eht I was thinking WW1
and btw. 1/144 is a very common scale for model kits… so nothing strange.
BUT here we talk about 1/200 scale… which is really uncommon 😉
Not that uncommon. The Wings of War \ Wings of Glory WW2 are 1:200 as are Armaments in Miniature and some Zvezda kits, plus some older Skytrex stuff. Its not a bad compromise scale for WW2 aircraft which allows more detail than 1:300 and still keeps the size reasonable;
looking good man.
That was helpful, thanks John.
You are very welcome 🙂 More coming tomorrow!
I’m surprised you didn’t paint the side markings and the wings’ undersides. Any reasons for that?
But all in all a great way to tackle camoflage in such a small scale.
Well, the aim of the tutorial was to do “enough” to make the models look good on the tabletop (and on camera) I would say that what I did here leaves the model available to be revisited at a later stage. It also lets me pick a squadron and make markings more specific to the planes (as the roundals on the sides can be different) and the ones on the upper wing surface generally remain the same. 🙂
Great work John, this has juust dropped here in Australia, and my starter set is in the mail, this will be helpful for when I start painting for sure. I’m probably going to wait for decals though. Hard no in freehanding for me.
Thanks John. Won a copy of the Blood Red Skies in a prize draw. Glad you went analogue, because I have no airbrush and airbrush tutorials just make me envious and weepy. 🙂 Great result.
Do you know if Warlord are going to do transfers for squad letters and markings etc? I know it’s just a small scale skirmish game, but would be fun to go the whole hog if you decide to pimp your ride and go overboard.
Warlord are planning to release decals, I think they said will be after the Mosquito, Hurricane and bomber releases, end of August?
Very nice John, looking forward to tacking mine now!