AndrewR
Airman
Hello everyone, here's my first work in progress on the forum. I've been on vacation, during the heat wave here in North America, and I've been building an Academy Typhoon as a little relaxation, in between swimming. 
I only brought a minimum set of modelling gear with me, basically everything I could cram into one plastic container, so this will be out of box and hand painted with Vallejo paints.
The box-art. Nice kit, good detail in cockpit and wheel wells. Rockets provided, but no bombs. Both 3 and 4 bladed propellors are included, but the horizontal stabilizers are the small ones for the 3 bladed version.
I've never got on that well with Academy decals, so I bought a sheet of Techmod decals for 4 different Typhoons. My original interntion was to do one one of the stripey versions, but for simplicity during the vacation build I'm going to do the Mid-stone/Earth Brown/Azure Middle Eastern variant. I'm going to take a big liberty and hang rockets off it, although I suspect that really it would have been bomb-laden. Only three machines went to the Middle East, for testing in 1943.
It's gone together very well so far. The cockpit was painted in Vallejo black-grey (as I'd forgotten to bring the black...!) and then drybrushed with neutral grey, white and silver.
A tiny bit of filler was necessary at the wing roots and at the front of the radiator.
Vallejo middle stone and azure on so far. Painting in the heat proved to be a mixed blessing. The paint dried very quickly. It would be tricky to make up a custom mix and get it all painted, so I used the colours straight from the Vallejo squeezy bottles.
Next step is to paint the dark earth.
cheers
Andrew
I only brought a minimum set of modelling gear with me, basically everything I could cram into one plastic container, so this will be out of box and hand painted with Vallejo paints.The box-art. Nice kit, good detail in cockpit and wheel wells. Rockets provided, but no bombs. Both 3 and 4 bladed propellors are included, but the horizontal stabilizers are the small ones for the 3 bladed version.
I've never got on that well with Academy decals, so I bought a sheet of Techmod decals for 4 different Typhoons. My original interntion was to do one one of the stripey versions, but for simplicity during the vacation build I'm going to do the Mid-stone/Earth Brown/Azure Middle Eastern variant. I'm going to take a big liberty and hang rockets off it, although I suspect that really it would have been bomb-laden. Only three machines went to the Middle East, for testing in 1943.
It's gone together very well so far. The cockpit was painted in Vallejo black-grey (as I'd forgotten to bring the black...!) and then drybrushed with neutral grey, white and silver.
A tiny bit of filler was necessary at the wing roots and at the front of the radiator.
Vallejo middle stone and azure on so far. Painting in the heat proved to be a mixed blessing. The paint dried very quickly. It would be tricky to make up a custom mix and get it all painted, so I used the colours straight from the Vallejo squeezy bottles.
Next step is to paint the dark earth.
cheers
Andrew
mid-day i felt like i was melting.Going to the airport coming home at 2 in the morning the bus shelters in the capital have temp read outs, 32 degrees i aint going in June again
have you got air-con?
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