[Paper Kosmonaut]

Hello friends.


Here's my rendition of the Anwalt Douglas Bader's Spitfire, enhanced with the engine designed by Alin Oszarik. This was my first (successfully finished) build with a frame-with-skin-wrapped-around. I learned a lot from it. Loved the build too. The Spitfire is a dream to build. Very nice fit and forgiving. It needed some adjustments for fitting the engine in. But thet too went reasonably well. I just have to say I am not a fan of those exploded view-instructions. There's often too much going on at once in one drawing and to me it sometimes is unclear in which order I need to attach stuff.
In the end I guess it worked out fine. Firstly, here are some photos during the build of the plane and the engine.
I loved building the engine and its strangely shaped parts. A model inside a model, as it were. The fit inside the Spitfire for which it wasn't meant to go in ( I am not even sure the engine version is the right one for the MkVb) but it sure results in a very cool model!