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Paper models, photos and musings of a Paper Kosmonaut

12 July 2020

Douglas Bader's Spitfire 1/33

Hi there, friends. Here I am again.
I really have done some extensive building the last few months. I still have to finish the Shuttle stack, I know, and I will. But I got a little frustrated after printing the boosters out wrong twice on very expensive paper (silly, of course, it just is a few euros at most - if not less).
I put the SRB’s aside for the time being went on and did the Eoles. After that I went and made one of my favourite aircraft models of all time, the Supermarine Spitfire. It is the well-known Anwalt model, available via Kartonmodellbau.de and via the Papermodelers forum. The model is designed as the plane Douglas Bader flew and it is a dream to build. Everything looks nice and fits just great.
While buildiing this I also have my daily jobs and a very nice girlfriend I have to take care of. So this build went slow. Slower than I wanted and perhaps even slower than I ever have been. I started this in the end of january. Feels like a long time ago. Different times.
For those of you who easily get bored by a building story, here's a photo of the final result. Click it to expand. The rest of the story is below!