I'm calling this build done.
The Irish always have wide open arms to welcomes tourists. At least those with passports and Visas. However if you tried to enter Irish airspace without a flight plan or take a short cut across the emerald isle way up high, you were sure to be greeted by a IAC Armstrong Whitworth A.W. 49 Archer.
The tri-colour tail came about as a result of fundamental goof on my part. I used an acrylic primer which of course fractured when hit with lacquer. Being silver, there was no way I could it down to get a smooth finish. So I replicated the underwing markings. The white stripes are decals. Makes life much easier. The red wing span wide stripes were also on the Seafire.
Bill of Materials;
Academy Tempest V. This was a rescue.
Wing extension from a Aoshima Ta-152
Plastic card for the vertical stabs
Spitfire Radiators and oil cooler from the spares box
Landing Gear from a Typhoon 1b. Tempest LG is way to weak.
Main colour from a Tamiya Spray Bomb
1947 Seafire MK.III Decals. Carpena Exotic Spitfire sheet 72.17
White stripe decals
