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I’ve got a few of these new Humbrol paints and they are wonderful to use..Also they dry very hard and tough..I got some on my hand and I was amazed how much scrubbing I had to do to remove it..Humbrol makes great paints

Good vid, though I'm still at a loss on why many modellers don't paint some of the small detail parts on the sprue first before assembly.

In a situation like this I find masking and painting the invasion stripes generally better. P-51 Mustang decal stripes can be even harder to work with. 😮

I have used Humbrol products over 50 years and still do...I use other Spray paints, mostly Tamiya and Vallejo...I even use acrylic art paints to change spray paints to make colours I want...I think testing first to see how they mix and spray is key

I have always liked the Corsair and you have done a great job with this golden oldie. Thanks for the information on Telford, it seems a bit rich for me but there are loads of shows around the country and the Bolton show is very close to where I live and is one of the larger shows, I went last year and it was great, cheers.

The Airfix paints are really quite good. I have even had good results with the paint pots through an airbrush. Just need to get the consistency correct and add a bit of flow improver. I use a nail varnish shaker to ensure the paint is thoroughly mixed.

Lovely job on that Spitfire. I find that Humbrol paints are a bit hit and miss, some are on the thin side, whilst other are a bit thick and gloopy but they usually thin down okay, the best thing about them is that they are widely available and reasonably priced.

I think the reason for the pilot wearing modern flying gear is because the initial release of this PR.XIX was as an aircraft of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.

Thats a beautiful kit and the main colour-way is stunning.

Not a fan of spitfires,prefer the Hurricane but I have built this model and used the PRU Blue paint by Humbrol. It brushes very well.

Good outcome, my attempt was a disaster. There were fit issues with the camera transparencies and the wing to fuselage joins. Once they had been rectified, I primed it, sprayed the PRU blue and decided to paint the invasion stripes. Despite using Tamiya tape to mask the stripes, when I removed them, all the paint and primer came off. The kit had been washed before painting and both primer and paint had been given plenty of time to dry, it was a little annoying.

Beautiful spitfire ❤

Great build, lovely looking kit, spat my tea out when you said tiger stripes😂

Excellent job, everything looks great. Can't see why anyone complains about this kit. We would have killed for a Griffon Spit of this quality 20 years ago.

I'll try the decal set trick because I often lose it with invasion stripes and end up painting them.

Very good sir! Paint looks good and my compliments on getting the invasion stripe decal to settle down and in place! Overall, a great piece of work!

Nice build of a beautiful looking and my favourite mark of Spitfire

Even the Luftwaffe used captured Gladiators as a training glider tug

I have always found that the Games Workshop colour 'Mithril Silver' was a really good match for the aluminised silver dope used in the interwar years by the RAF.

Cracking model,just one suggestion -do you not think that they would have recovered the tracks for the Honey?

What a great looking kit this is. I’ll retrieve my 1972 first edition from the stash and build it just to stir up Peter.😊

Beautiful model and nice build. The only problem I have with biplanes is that without rigging they look a little bit unfinished to me. Rigging in 1:72 scale is really painful but worth the effort in my opinion. Thanks for sharing the video.

Good wee kit, nice work

Super job and I think that I have one of these in the stash somewhere, I may hunt it out and build it, don't tell Peter. lol, cheers.

Revel....🤔 wondered why it wasn't in two colours!

I just did an inventory of my stash…….over the years I have accumulated 10 of the little beasties in 1/72 scale by various manufacturers. The Gladiator is probably my favorite AC…..my second fav is the Fiat CR-42. I want to do a super detailed build of Faith, Hope, or Charity…..Cheers

I have ordered one but mine will be different

Nice little aircraft I built one in BoB camo..I saw one in the Malta war museum Faith, Hope and Charity 3 of them defended the island before the Spits turned up....👍👍

gladiator was my first matchbox kit. I was 15 then. I remember buying humbrol silver and humbrol tube cement with the kit. I still have one untouched one in my stash. yours turned out to be beautiful.

I look forward to your videos, you have lit my enthusiasm for modelling again after a good 40 years, love the matchbox vids especially the ones with dioramas, cheers

I actually have this kit in a first edition version box with lid:-) I enjoyed your video and I`m going to try that Leadbelcher paint.

Gladiators in the pre-war silver dope finish with the individual squadron colours were, in my opinion, always the most attractive. Great job, once again 👍

Great perseverance shame you didn’t do the rigging

I am sorry but Airfix haven’t realised a 1/48 scale gladiator I wish they had though

Cela me rappelle ma jeunesse

I've built the Airfix, Heller and Hobby Boss kits, and each was an okay kit. I haven't found the Matchbox kit yet, as they are rare as frog's hair here in Florida, USA.

Shame about the Alclad mishap; it's difficult to keep track of how everything works or affects everything else with so many products on the market these days. She looks good though..... Nice one 👍🏻👏🏻👌🏻

Great result.well done.👍👍👍

I NEED more Matchbox kits...BADLY

Great fan of Matchbox kits, bought many of these back in the day ( 70s) but will need a second mortgage to buy both these kits ( £28 and £15 starting price on ebay) 😢. Always liked the extras you get in the kits including bases, trees, bridges etc. You did a sterling job of the kits with your own twists which turned out brilliant.

Il primo modellino della Matchbox comprato tanti anni fa in un tabaccaio vicino casa, stupendo!!!!

What a superb job you have done on such an old kit...well done!!

Great Lysander build of an old Matchbox kit! Wonderful result!

Nice work. I'm putting together a North Africa set of toy soldiers for a youngster, he could do with a Lysander co-op aircraft and maybe a Storch. I'll investigate e-bay.

Absolutely love the way you weathered the vehicle, the dry bushing results were fantastic! I hope to recreate something similar on a panther i am building.

You should contact Activision. You sound like soap McTavish off of call of duty. And I enjoy your builds

EBay bidding. I kept losing out on getting an Airfix Hampden. Every time I was sniped at the end. Then one week, three came up for sale so I put minimum bids on all three, not really caring at this point as I’d given up. They were in high demand! I thought I might win one. I won all three! Then the following month, Airfix rereleased it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I dissolve sprue in cement until it's a soup or stew then use that as a filler it brushes easily and uses capillary action to fill the gaps

But the old instructions were better than the current ones, it used to say " locate and cement part x to part y " then you moved to the next instruction, those were the days.usually a jelly baby figure.

I think that the transfers work well and are in keeping with a well used aircraft in the tropics.