@@robbertsprezzatura7220 good thanks!! Followed the video and took each step slowly. Really greatful for the advice on the paint-there aren't any visible brush strokes the transfer didn't come off the backing to easily but worked out in the end. I'm really chuffed with the results!
I like the starter kits with basic paints brush and glue. Really gets you started. As a kid paints were hideously expensive, so you could buy and make a model with a tube of glue. Add the markings but you had no colour on it leaving an unsatisfying mono grey with most kits. The old matchbox kits came in colours which helped.
I used to build these with my grandad when I was a kid before he passed, just bought this exact model and having a blast working on it 🙂 brings back good memories
This video is supremely helpful as I am currently introducing my 12 year-old grandson to the pleasures of model building and his first kit is... the Airfix Vc Starter Kit!
Great intro video. For brush painting the brush itself is absolutely critical (obviously) so I'd think about adding a broad flat brush as well as a standard brush to the kits. This would make the main paint job so much easier. I know it would increase cost but one to think about. If not included in the starter kit itself then maybe a starter tools kit could have a flat brush in it instead of say the tweezers. Much more useful IMO and everybody already has some tweezers at home probably anyhow!
I went into The Range here in the UK and got a set of 6 brushes for £1.99 in the Stationary/Arts 'n' Crafts section and one of them is a 6mm brush. The Works bookshops also sell sets of synthetic brushes ideal for model making for under £5.00
Well I've literally just bought this , I always wanted to give it a go and at 45 years old I thought why not now ? I am going to try and add a bit more detail to the paint work maybe some streaks and used look, I've bought a few extra paints and brushes, but hopefully my model can look half decent If it looks 50% as good as this is I'll be over the moon 🤣
Your newer Starter Sets are really good and well thought out. And so is this how-to vid. Excellent job! I'd agree a flat brush would be a great add-on/replacement to the round brush provided in the set, much better suited for painting all those flat surfaces a plane or a tank is made of. But the I imagine the cost would go up. Have you any plan to update/re-imagine the basic tool set, like you did so well with the Starter kits? I mean, the only tools I'd keep from the Basic Tool Set are the knife and the file (the video shows clearly how to use it, btw). The side cutter is a must have too, but there are *much* better alternatives out there than the one provided that certainly would not cost anything more. Ditto for the tweezers, imho 😅
That's a pretty decent coat of paint, applied like that. It can be quite tricky to get such a smooth finish on flat surfaces. Other thoughts: • It might be possible to do the panel lines (if recessed) using a cheap and easily accessible water colour set for kids, just to subtly pick out the details with an appropriate tone. Water colour dries matt (no recess glares) and can be wiped off an acrylic surface with a bit of water (making it easy to adjust). It can also be used for dust, rust and soot type weathering (usually very matt). Other weathering techniques can require a lot of special coats and weathering paints/thinners. • Throw some hot orange water colour into the light gray acrylic (separate on the pallette) and you've got a flesh tone for the pilot face. • Would recommend using a wet palette => sandwich a plastic lid + wet tissue paper + and baking/oven paper. The paint sits on the baking paper which is kept moist by the tissue paper underneath. This prevents the paint from crusting as quickly, perhaps improving surface finish once applied. And it saves paint. • Like others have mentioned, if you mess up the canopy it's possible to scrape off the dry paint (if acrylic) using a toothpick. Using something like white spirit for removal (when using enamel paint) will fog up the clear plastic iirc.
Brilliant! I got the 1:72 Airfix Mitsubishi Zero and RAF P51 Mustang starter kits for Xmas recently but was too intimidated by the paints and brush to get started on them. After this excellent video, I'm raring to go! Liked and Subscribed!!!! Edit: found two Airfix starter kits at home yesterday - the Spitfire and ANOTHER Mitsubishi Zero in white! I love Zeros but only in white, not the camouflaged ones. The wooden stirrers you get at a McDonalds are very handy for stirring those long dormant modeling paint containers too :-)
I’ve just bought a standard spitfire kit. Always wanted to make a kit like this since I was a kit. Thanks for this video explaining how to make this kit with everything included. I want to keep it simple but maybe learn to add some details later like weathering. Need to look that up.
While I think of it.. the corner flap torn off the box is a perfect right angle so could be used to check alignment if say a horizontal stabiliser was 90 degrees to the vertical.
Great video for beginners. If you do get any paint on the canopy use a wooden toothpick to take off the excess. I think the experienced modeller could use this as a base kit to make an excellent detailed kit because the mouldings are so good. Huge improvement on the early airfix kits.
Thank you for the tutorial and the info, I wanted to start a hobby while I have Zero or even Sub-Zero knowledge of painting with all those brushes, thinners, coats and terminologies. However I know it will be fun to build and finish. I'm buying this model (I was searching for beginner kits that include the needed paints and this model from Airfix came across) so this video really helps. Also If you can recommend any more beginner kits , tutorials and a place to get that basic knowledge to build on, it would be great. Thank you again 👍
Nice video for beginners! However I have noticed the extras (glue, brush and paints) included in starter sets make them a lot more expensive than normal model kits without them. However when you start from scatch, or maybe you are not sure if you want to pursue any further modelling after a starter kit, I guess it's handy they are included.
Good afternoon Airfix crew, I’m an avide fan of the airfix line in general and the war ship kits in particular. After watching your teaching method I must applaud you for your technique. I also wish to give you high marks on the front cowling and the way you got rid of seam. I wonder if you had continued to the cockpit and do away with the seam altogether making the seam on the actual lines of the aircraft.got our I have built the Hood and Bismarck and made the Hood my favourite. Might I suggest that you improve the warships by adding improved artillery and such that are of very poor quality. Might I also suggest that you create an Avro Arrow to your new aircraft entering as this aircraft was a phenomenal aircraft that has been way ahead of the fighter development of the world. It was the first “Fly-by-wire aircraft on a delta wing structure that, if one could suspend it, one could cover a spitfire mk5 under its wings. It was also twin engines, all weather with two crew structure that was creating speeds of Mach 1.7 without afterburners. Not bad for 1957 eh! Forever in His service
thats way better than the ones i tried to make in the eighty's! 😀 but the poly cement out the tube must be quite strong just sitting there🤣, and i was desperate for you to use the black diluted as a pin wash over the panel lines, that would have been cool. Its excellent airfix is still going, i'm pretty sure nearly everyone's first model was an airfix!
In the painting part they said to be careful with the black on the landing gear and propeller, would it be safe to paint on them before hand like at the start of the video with the cockpit?
Excellent video but i have one small constructive criticism, as this is aimed at beginners you never mentioned dry fitting parts to ensure a correct fit and understanding of how the parts go together, I'm sure this would be helpful advice for newcomers to the hobby in future, all the best 🐦.
I've painted and put together some Warhammer space marines before but i got this as a present for my birthday, wasn't sure how to go about it because i assumed it was going to be a bit different from building Warhammer but this video helped a lot, this middle is a nice pastime after a long day at work id recommend it, i have a question though is it worth putting primer on the model before. because i know with Warhammer its a bit of a must.
One can take all of one's clipped sprues down to one's local Beatties or family-owned toy shop, and the toy shop owner will collect together and sort all of this modelling plastic to be melted down into future tanks, aeroplanes, pilots, soldiers, Jeeps, women and racing cars.
This is the first model I’ve built and loving it so far. It’s a shame the black paint came rock hard and unusable and I got two 64 greys in the box rather than a 64 and a 106.
I really should have watched this through properly before I started, I got the majority done pretty well apart from thinning the paint, didn’t know to use paintbrushes and wet the model before applying roundels and annoyingly the cockpit roof didn’t go in properly, I’m fairly pleased with it but usually display it to one side because the other sides roundels are a tad wonky, this is only my second build I’m buying more starter kits till I’m confident enough to do the proper ones
I really love my Airfix models, last year in Newcastle I went and got some Africa corps soldiers from WWII and some WWI fighter craft. I'm looking foreword to building them. Airfix are such an awesome company, I like how all their products are based on real history and not fantasy or Harry Potter. I've always been into my history and science then make belief and sci fi/ fantasy stuff. I also like to watch old films such as money pit and Kelly's heroes! Not Avatar and stupid 300, a terrible film!!!!
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I'm starting this tomorrow... i'm almost 40 and have never made a model before... you've helped already! Thank you! Wish me luck though....
Have fun!
How did it go?
@@robbertsprezzatura7220 good thanks!! Followed the video and took each step slowly. Really greatful for the advice on the paint-there aren't any visible brush strokes the transfer didn't come off the backing to easily but worked out in the end. I'm really chuffed with the results!
I'm 45 bought this last week just waiting for it to arrive
I too have never made 1 always wanted to give it a go, thought why not now
@@ANDREWHALL28 enjoy! I found the old hands are a bit shakey (but this improved with time) and just took my time. It was lots of fun though!
I like the starter kits with basic paints brush and glue. Really gets you started. As a kid paints were hideously expensive, so you could buy and make a model with a tube of glue. Add the markings but you had no colour on it leaving an unsatisfying mono grey with most kits. The old matchbox kits came in colours which helped.
Got my Spitfire starter kit too! Gonna have a go! Good mental health therapy! ❤
I used to build these with my grandad when I was a kid before he passed, just bought this exact model and having a blast working on it 🙂 brings back good memories
Lordy, It's scalemodelmedic! What a blast from the past!
I'm pretty touched that someone remembers 😊
This video is supremely helpful as I am currently introducing my 12 year-old grandson to the pleasures of model building and his first kit is... the Airfix Vc Starter Kit!
Great intro video. For brush painting the brush itself is absolutely critical (obviously) so I'd think about adding a broad flat brush as well as a standard brush to the kits. This would make the main paint job so much easier. I know it would increase cost but one to think about. If not included in the starter kit itself then maybe a starter tools kit could have a flat brush in it instead of say the tweezers. Much more useful IMO and everybody already has some tweezers at home probably anyhow!
Agreed.while these small brushes are fine for painting SMALL parts they are USELESS for wide coverage.
I went into The Range here in the UK and got a set of 6 brushes for £1.99 in the Stationary/Arts 'n' Crafts section and one of them is a 6mm brush. The Works bookshops also sell sets of synthetic brushes ideal for model making for under £5.00
We have brought this starter kit along with the red arrows Hawk, for my son for Christmas.
Very helpful tips and instructions from this video.
TY.
Glad it was helpful!
Well I've literally just bought this , I always wanted to give it a go and at 45 years old I thought why not now ?
I am going to try and add a bit more detail to the paint work maybe some streaks and used look, I've bought a few extra paints and brushes, but hopefully my model can look half decent
If it looks 50% as good as this is I'll be over the moon 🤣
Your newer Starter Sets are really good and well thought out. And so is this how-to vid. Excellent job!
I'd agree a flat brush would be a great add-on/replacement to the round brush provided in the set, much better suited for painting all those flat surfaces a plane or a tank is made of. But the I imagine the cost would go up.
Have you any plan to update/re-imagine the basic tool set, like you did so well with the Starter kits? I mean, the only tools I'd keep from the Basic Tool Set are the knife and the file (the video shows clearly how to use it, btw). The side cutter is a must have too, but there are *much* better alternatives out there than the one provided that certainly would not cost anything more. Ditto for the tweezers, imho 😅
Great video for beginners. Feel much better about attempting my first build.
Highly recommend this kit. Even if you are a starter or a advanced builder its still really fun to build.
Beautiful Done 👍😊
Thanks for Your VERY worthful instructions 👍🌷
Thanks for this build video. It shows what is achievable with the standard kit and paints. I look forward to other build videos for my next kits.
Oh lovely a updated spitfire starters video
That's a pretty decent coat of paint, applied like that. It can be quite tricky to get such a smooth finish on flat surfaces.
Other thoughts:
• It might be possible to do the panel lines (if recessed) using a cheap and easily accessible water colour set for kids, just to subtly pick out the details with an appropriate tone. Water colour dries matt (no recess glares) and can be wiped off an acrylic surface with a bit of water (making it easy to adjust). It can also be used for dust, rust and soot type weathering (usually very matt). Other weathering techniques can require a lot of special coats and weathering paints/thinners.
• Throw some hot orange water colour into the light gray acrylic (separate on the pallette) and you've got a flesh tone for the pilot face.
• Would recommend using a wet palette => sandwich a plastic lid + wet tissue paper + and baking/oven paper. The paint sits on the baking paper which is kept moist by the tissue paper underneath. This prevents the paint from crusting as quickly, perhaps improving surface finish once applied. And it saves paint.
• Like others have mentioned, if you mess up the canopy it's possible to scrape off the dry paint (if acrylic) using a toothpick. Using something like white spirit for removal (when using enamel paint) will fog up the clear plastic iirc.
Brilliant! I got the 1:72 Airfix Mitsubishi Zero and RAF P51 Mustang starter kits for Xmas recently but was too intimidated by the paints and brush to get started on them. After this excellent video, I'm raring to go! Liked and Subscribed!!!!
Edit: found two Airfix starter kits at home yesterday - the Spitfire and ANOTHER Mitsubishi Zero in white!
I love Zeros but only in white, not the camouflaged ones. The wooden stirrers you get at a McDonalds are very handy for stirring those long dormant modeling paint containers too :-)
I’ve just bought a standard spitfire kit. Always wanted to make a kit like this since I was a kit.
Thanks for this video explaining how to make this kit with everything included.
I want to keep it simple but maybe learn to add some details later like weathering. Need to look that up.
I've got one of these to build as a complete beginner.....the bar is set pretty high!
While I think of it.. the corner flap torn off the box is a perfect right angle so could be used to check alignment if say a horizontal stabiliser was 90 degrees to the vertical.
Great video for beginners. If you do get any paint on the canopy use a wooden toothpick to take off the excess. I think the experienced modeller could use this as a base kit to make an excellent detailed kit because the mouldings are so good. Huge improvement on the early airfix kits.
Thank you for the tutorial and the info, I wanted to start a hobby while I have Zero or even Sub-Zero knowledge of painting with all those brushes, thinners, coats and terminologies. However I know it will be fun to build and finish. I'm buying this model (I was searching for beginner kits that include the needed paints and this model from Airfix came across) so this video really helps.
Also If you can recommend any more beginner kits , tutorials and a place to get that basic knowledge to build on, it would be great.
Thank you again 👍
Thank you for the wonderful narrative and explaining the detailed steps. Looking forward to building it !
Great little build and explanations. Thank you for posting.
Fantastic narrative and instructions, thank you !
Nice video for beginners! However I have noticed the extras (glue, brush and paints) included in starter sets make them a lot more expensive than normal model kits without them. However when you start from scatch, or maybe you are not sure if you want to pursue any further modelling after a starter kit, I guess it's handy they are included.
Good afternoon Airfix crew,
I’m an avide fan of the airfix line in general and the war ship kits in particular. After watching your teaching method I must applaud you for your technique. I also wish to give you high marks on the front cowling and the way you got rid of seam. I wonder if you had continued to the cockpit and do away with the seam altogether making the seam on the actual lines of the aircraft.got our I have built the Hood and Bismarck and made the Hood my favourite. Might I suggest that you improve the warships by adding improved artillery and such that are of very poor quality. Might I also suggest that you create an Avro Arrow to your new aircraft entering as this aircraft was a phenomenal aircraft that has been way ahead of the fighter development of the world. It was the first “Fly-by-wire aircraft on a delta wing structure that, if one could suspend it, one could cover a spitfire mk5 under its wings. It was also twin engines, all weather with two crew structure that was creating speeds of Mach 1.7 without afterburners. Not bad for 1957 eh!
Forever in His service
Really nice video I’m going to buy this set
thats way better than the ones i tried to make in the eighty's! 😀 but the poly cement out the tube must be quite strong just sitting there🤣, and i was desperate for you to use the black diluted as a pin wash over the panel lines, that would have been cool. Its excellent airfix is still going, i'm pretty sure nearly everyone's first model was an airfix!
Thanks for the video 😊 got some really useful information for my spitfire. Cheers 🍻
Excellent video ! Thank you.
In the painting part they said to be careful with the black on the landing gear and propeller, would it be safe to paint on them before hand like at the start of the video with the cockpit?
I usually do, I just don't paint around connection points.
Excellent video but i have one small constructive criticism, as this is aimed at beginners you never mentioned dry fitting parts to ensure a correct fit and understanding of how the parts go together, I'm sure this would be helpful advice for newcomers to the hobby in future, all the best 🐦.
Very good point.
Wonderful , really inspired, thank you 🙏😁👏
Ww2 planes are my favorite, i also like plane models
making mine soon cant wait!
More kits like this and videos!
Excellent video.
Are there any plans for Airfix to reintroduce the Mk IX Spitfire in 1/72 scale? I think that was my very first kit, many decades ago!
While painting, instead of an old paintbrush handle, if this kit has a stand supplied why not temporarily insert that and use that to hold the model?
I've painted and put together some Warhammer space marines before but i got this as a present for my birthday, wasn't sure how to go about it because i assumed it was going to be a bit different from building Warhammer but this video helped a lot, this middle is a nice pastime after a long day at work id recommend it, i have a question though is it worth putting primer on the model before. because i know with Warhammer its a bit of a must.
another great video!!!!!!
Masking fluid would be a great help.
How long you leaving the Glue/paint to dry between coats
One can take all of one's clipped sprues down to one's local Beatties or family-owned toy shop, and the toy shop owner will collect together and sort all of this modelling plastic to be melted down into future tanks, aeroplanes, pilots, soldiers, Jeeps, women and racing cars.
I missed it, did they paint the nose cone the base grey? Would you paint the blades on the sprue?
You can use dilute soapy water to thin the paint and the soap will stop the surface tension problems...................
Hello do you colour the guns or leave them as they are???? Regards Damon
It’s a great little kit but one really annoying thing is the number 30 green looks nothing like the green on the box art.
I got a starter kit and the shop had them sitting so long the paint was hard, ruined my day
This is the first model I’ve built and loving it so far. It’s a shame the black paint came rock hard and unusable and I got two 64 greys in the box rather than a 64 and a 106.
How long does it take for the poly cement to set once it's on the plane???
About 30 minutes but won't properly set for at least a day!!
I wish Airfix would do a Hurricane as starter kit like this,not everybody likes Spitfires.
Very sad, the exhaust piece was bent horribly when it came out the box, when I tried to fit it in place, a huge gap was there 😔
I really should have watched this through properly before I started, I got the majority done pretty well apart from thinning the paint, didn’t know to use paintbrushes and wet the model before applying roundels and annoyingly the cockpit roof didn’t go in properly, I’m fairly pleased with it but usually display it to one side because the other sides roundels are a tad wonky, this is only my second build I’m buying more starter kits till I’m confident enough to do the proper ones
Is it just me that thot their green in a solid form?
Or is that supposed to happen
Хорошая фирма...и развивается!!😂
every time i start one the paints are dried
Doinh it tonight
I really love my Airfix models, last year in Newcastle I went and got some Africa corps soldiers from WWII and some WWI fighter craft. I'm looking foreword to building them. Airfix are such an awesome company, I like how all their products are based on real history and not fantasy or Harry Potter. I've always been into my history and science then make belief and sci fi/ fantasy stuff. I also like to watch old films such as money pit and Kelly's heroes! Not Avatar and stupid 300, a terrible film!!!!
Il pilota va dipinto e non colorato in modo approsimativo. Tutto apennello e niente areografo e mascheramento ?
Wow. the new starter sets have really taken a step backwards
Why do you think this ?
I've just bought the set was wondering how it differs to the older set ?