Airfix Spitfire MkIa - Part II

Well, it took me a while to figure it out, but the cockpit is now finished. Some traces of my earlier mishap still remain, but the extreme closeup pictures look tad more dramatic than the real thing, which is rather tiny.

I painted entire section with  Lifecolor Interior Green, after which the details were painted in  black and silver metallic paint. Cockpit of this model is rather sparse when it comes to details and instrument panel is represented with help of a simple decal. Pilot seat color is a bit speculative - Airfix wants to use buff color here, while a quick search on the Interwebs showed me pictures of Spitfire seats in all possible color variants ranging from dark greens to pale browns. In the end I decided not to dwell over it and used generic light brown shaded with sepia wash from Games Workshop.

Once I was done with the cockpit, I took advantage of the fact that the airbrush was already loaded and sprayed interior green on insides of fuselage and wing components before removing them from the frame. Acrylics without a solid base coat of some sort are notoriously fragile, but as long as I don't scratch the paint I should be able to get away with it.

Final step was addition of thin wash of water solvable oil paints to provide a little shading and voila, I'm ready for next step - putting together the fuselage and wings.