Phil's 1/48 Hasegawa Typhoon Mk.Ib car door

[PhilJ]

Nice work Phil. There was a big gap to fill on mine between the inserts as well. I'm glad I was experienced enough with Hasegawa kits to know not to glue the inserts together first and then attach to fuselage as the instructions tell you to do.Would have ruined the model trying to put it right

Cheers Dave. Excuse my ignorance this is my first hasegawa kit, what do you mean by gap between the inserts? Where abouts is this?

[PhilJ]

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Here's where I'm up to on the cockpit so far, after a seal of klear I treated the cockpit to some ak interactive wash for green and some oil paints to lighten/darken some areas, just trying some new techniques really. Some placards were touch/dry brushed and some (like the red one on the floor of the cockpit) were airscale 1/48 raf placards.

[PhilJ]

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A couple of pieces together under hopefully some better light, before closing up.
Thanks for looking, any constructive critism is welcome as always.

[dave]

Coming along nicely

[Ian M]

This is a very helpful thread and a great build. I'll be looking back to this when I get round to my tiffy.

[flyjoe180]

Looks very good so far, nice work.

[Dave W]

Nice work Phil

[PhilJ]

Cheers guys appreciate that, some assembly next all ready foe my dedicated primer airbrush that hopefully I'll be getting for my birthday... fingers crossed.

[colin m]

That's a flippin' good looking cockpit.

[PhilJ]

As I'm slowing the pace awaiting my new AB, I thought I would scratch build some lighting. Here's what I have done so far.
First of all I made the flat plastic standard light piece concave with the appropriate size round sanding head bit on my battery operated multi tool, hopefully you'll see the effect.
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[PhilJ]

Next I prepared some bulbs which were tag ends from the clear parts spruce, I got two pieces of similar size and held them half way in a pin vice while sanding it to a round shape. Now this is fiddly and they ping off into oblivion on a couple of attempts but the result is good as I hope you can see here:
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[PhilJ]

Next I drilled the back of the "bulbs" and glued some copper wire in place and drilled the appropriate size hole through the reflector dish to take it.
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Next I will glue the tops of the wings on and make some reflectors for the lights before final fit of the bulbs.

[Guest]

Wow, those bulbs look fiddly! Great work here, watching with interest.

[PhilJ]

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After painting the whole light area matt black I treated myself to a mince pie and punched a couple of reflectors.

[PhilJ]

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With reflectors in place a hole was drilled in the middle of both and the dummy bulbs were introduced.
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