In December I bought an airbrush and experimented with it, painting the Typhoon 1/72 and a F-86D 1/48. Today I continued working on the big Typhoon. A lot of small parts for the cockpit, but the instrument panel is missing! So waiting for Airfix.
Another layer of details added to the engine. Again surprised by the perfect fit. It's a bit tricky to get the parts in place, but suddenly they fit and everything is nicely lined up.
The engine controls can be seen in the traingle of engine supports. I wish I had those for my Mosquito, since I still have to make them for those engines.
Four guns, painted and ready for installation. I needed to enlarge the holes where the barrels go. It wasn't possible to get the cannons in place, otherwise.
I bought some nice aftermarket cannons, only to find out that only 2 mm would be visible! So I removed the front piece of the shrouds, to reveal the cannon as if undergoing maintenance
A pity that so much detail is hidden for ever! I wanted to open up the wing, to show the fuel tank, but I didn't find any pics showing this in real. Only one pic of a Tempest showed the fuel tank from the underside.
I saw pictures of the side panels from the cockpit removed for maintenance, so I decided to do the same with the model. I'm only not sure about the oil tank. Can the panels be removed or were they fixed in place?
The sidewalls installed. There was a nasty gap at the wing root. After studying some pictures and the panels, I saw that Airfix fitted the wing root to the engine cowlings. So I cut them from the panels and added them.
The underside covered. I thought the suggested Vallejo paints were too dark, so it took me some time to find the correct colour. Recently Vallejo issued new colours and they are much better.
The beast got his legs. Halfway the build, I discovered that some had problems with the undercarriage. I decided to use the metal gear. But I already used some plastic parts. Fortunately the merger of metal and plastic went without problems!