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Built the remaining parts of the flaps and attached them to the wings. #archive #papercraft #Spitfire #scalemodel #histscalemodels

More Cacodemon.

I printed off a floor texture from Doom to stick on the base for the full 2D experience.

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Left side of the Cacodemon model from a high angle.

Right front of the Cacodemon model at a high angle.

Built the flaps. #archive #papercraft #Spitfire #scalemodel #histscalemodels

Completed all the exhaust pipes and added them to the fuselage. #archive #papercraft #Spitfire #scalemodel #histscalemodels

Started building the exhausts. #archive #papercraft #Spitfire #scalemodel #histscalemodels

Completed the front wheels and attached them to the model. #archive #papercraft #Spitfire #scalemodel #histscalemodels

Built the rear wheel. #archive #papercraft #Spitfire #scalemodel #histscalemodels

Shaping the wheels from multiple layers of 1mm cardboard. #archive #papercraft #Spitfire #scalemodel #histscalemodels

Next up: the undercarriage. #archive #papercraft #Spitfire #scalemodel #histscalemodels

Built a mirror for the top of the canopy. #archive #papercraft #Spitfire #scalemodel #histscalemodels

Attached the canopy to the fuselage. #archive #papercraft #Spitfire #scalemodel #histscalemodels

Built the canopy. The "glass" is vacuum shaped plastic, all the frames are from paper. #archive #pspercraft #Spitfire #scalemodel #histscalemodels

Added the sight to the dashboard. #archive #papercraft #Spitfire #scalemodel #histscalemodels

Seven part cockpit jazzed up with some scratch-built seat harnesses. In 53 years, kit manufacturers have struggled to fill this little void. Tamiya offer a ridiculous decal. Other kits, photo-etched copper or brass. These are difficult to make look natural.
I've used copper wire and masking tape. Not perfect, but it satisfies the casual glance. This assembly is approximately 35mm long.
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Niche complaint.

Sometimes, kit engineers will make what should have been one part, into two or three parts under the false belief that modellers like this because it requires "more modelling".
I refute this.
Even so, this supercharger intake from Tamiya's (pretty basic) Focke-Wulf 190 D-9 kit is a good example.
This is always going to be two parts given the shape and the limitations of injection moulding, but Dragon's kit presents this bit as two halves, not this silliness. There'll still be seam elimination, but easier.
Pics.
Tamiya's two parts assembled, a pic of the real thing, my attempt at sorting the problem. This is a kit for intermediate modellers. Good shapes, few parts.
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