It did orange peel and it wasn't intended. I have been painting outside because I'm not allowed to paint in the house and one theory I had was the paint partially drying in the space between being in the airbrush to on the surface of the model. Unlikely, I know, but so far that's all I could think of. It is possible thought that I didn't clean the airbrush properly or I'm not thinning paints well enough to cause them to spit out as little blobs randomly at the same time as the smooth flow of everything else. I do have another airbrush I could try but it's not a top-fed one and is a little inconvenient for something as small as this.
You mentioned earlier that the camouflage was from the desert theatre and this is correct. The instructions for this kit (for the variant I'm doing) say T-L flew from Malta in 1942. The second desert schemed spitfire variant able to be made from the kit is for the 'clipped' wing AB502 of North Africa in 1943. The kit also gives a third option, a US air force Spitfire flown from the UK in green and grey scheme - not quite as interesting!
You mentioned earlier that the camouflage was from the desert theatre and this is correct. The instructions for this kit (for the variant I'm doing) say T-L flew from Malta in 1942. The second desert schemed spitfire variant able to be made from the kit is for the 'clipped' wing AB502 of North Africa in 1943. The kit also gives a third option, a US air force Spitfire flown from the UK in green and grey scheme - not quite as interesting!
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