Revell 1/32 Typhoon 1B with car door canopy (Build)

[RM6239]

Richard
Nice work mate, cockpit looks good.

cheers
Ross

[JR]

Richard.
I don't know what league of modellers your in but one day I'd like to be in it ! Dedication coupled with madness produces work like yours, that office is brilliant, along with the undercarriage.
No doubt you have seen the footage on U tube of Typhoons causing havoc in France , certainly lived up to their name .
John.

[rtfoe]

Thanks Ross and John, the large space in the Typhoon cockpit allowed for some extra work so I went for it... had a few swigs from the whiskey bottle first to calm the nerves...I think that did the trick John. :tongue-out3: There are no terror leagues of modelers, just loonie ones. :tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy:

It was a coincedence when I was researching for the Typhoon that I found out about the Talalla brothers. One of them actually flew one of my favorite planes. Also an article in a magazine featured a build of a 1/48 scaled Typhoon in the same squadron markings as Henry Talalla was from which was another coincedance. I had only pieced together the engine and left the kit in the stash for years so the timing was right.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Ok...I broke out the airbrush and did a pre-flight check... "Flaps, check...magnetos, check...oil gauges and switches on, check...brakes on, check...contact...BANG!! SPLUTTER!!...VROOOOM!!"

With all checked out smoothly grey primer was sprayed on...then the pre-shading with diluted Nato Black commenced... at 1/32 it was easy keeping the lines consistant and straight.

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Everything that needed coating and pre-shading was covered...

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I forgot that I had added a modification like some sort of a strengthening structure just ahead of the navigational light benind the cockpit...

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I blu tac'd all the flap and covers before attacking the underside...

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Stain streaks were added with the airbrush at this stage, hopefully they would appear more subtle under the base coat of paint.

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Under primer you can see the newly added screw heads from plastic rod slices and notched in the center. The molding was so soft that these had to be replaced.

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That's it...next the anti Focke Wulf stripes...

Cheers,
Richard

[JR]

Richard.
This video on U tube has a very interesting section on the white markings, apparently quite a few Typhoons were shot down by friendly fire, being mistaken for German 109's, resulted in the planes having white lines on them prior to the landings.

John.

[Jim R]

Hi Richard
Those scratched flaps look great. Your additions to the cockpit have really paid dividends.
Jim

[Steven000]

Nice progress Richard :thumb2:
Have fun,
Steven

[rtfoe]

Hi John, on top of the stripes, the nose was painted white and a single yellow band on the top of each wing. Thanks for the Video, enjoyed it.

Only just recently I repainted the Typhoon with the correct shade of grey and sharper demarkation between the camouflage. I've posted them on the finished thread.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Thank you very much for the comments Jim and Steven,

I have some more new pictures in the finishe section. It's been repainted. You'll see the marked difference.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

In the early days, many Typhoons were shot down by friendly fire thinking they were Focke Wulfs so a solution was needed. It was decided that stripes be painted on the underside of the wing as that would be the area spotted by ground gunners. These stripes were different than the D-Day identification stripes being thinner and with two more stripes added.
Even with the stripes friendly planes still mistakenly shot at Typhoons in the heat of battle so some spotted white painted noses and a yellow band across each wing.

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White was sprayed first and then masked to take the black and then covered over. Extra white then was sprayed over the propeller tips as a base for the yelloe later.

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The spinner too recieved the extra white paint. It must have been the largest spinner cone of its time.

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Thats it for now...

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi,

This was my first run by spraying the dark green freehand without masking. I would later re-mask and spray both the green and dark grey.

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Care was taken not to let the paint creep under the masking of the canopy. I used enamel Humbrol paints for this and had to occasionally brush off the build up of paint powder in the corners.

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Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Somebody was saying that my builds were neat and tidy...:tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy: I told them the workbench was in chaos. The pictures above was without the blue backing paper I usually use as a backdrop for my photography. Now you see it.

The table area space is 4'x2' but I always end up using only a clear space of 10"x10"...sometimes smaller. :smiling6:

Cheers,
Richard

[scottie3158]

You are not alone mate. What's the strawberry syrup used for ?:smiling:

[rtfoe]

Scottie, I think we all need wives to remind us to clean up. :tears-of-joy: I recycle and found the strawberry syrup bottle handy to contain water...saves time getting up to get water from the bathroom or kitchen sink. It has a squirt tip so I can get precise amounts of water when cleaning up my airbrush.

More on the finishing touches...

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The colours darken a little after a coat of varnish. It's now ready for decaling...lets break out the decal juice...

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I forgot to elaborate on the landing gear. Brake lines were fitted using copper wire with strips of foil for fasteners. The picture also show the weathered flaps.

Cheers,
Richard

[Steve Jones]

Very nice Richard. I notice the green camo is a lot darker now. Is that because of what you have done or because of the lighting from the camera?