**** DONE: 1/48 Tempest MkV - Allied Advance and Defense of the Reich WWII.

[Wayne Little]

 

[Crimea_River]

Another thing that should really have been done before painting was to detail the deck behind the seat. Working with detailed pics, I fashioned the canopy seal out of lead wire and added the attachment gussets for the head armour out of sheet styrene. The rail is a kit-supplied PE part. After all this was done, the area was masked and painted a lightened black. While I was at it, I masked and painted the non-skid walkways as well.

Next it was on with the decals. Lots of stencils on this one so this took quite a while.

 

[fubar57]

Nicely done sir.


Geo

 

[Airframes]

Liking that rear deck detail, and it;s looking sharp with the decals on - nice work Andy.

 

[rochie]

Vary nice indeed

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

Like it!

 

[JKim]

Looks great Andy. Nifty work on the rear deck details and the decals look dandy! Not used to seeing the yellow on the wing roundels.

 

[Gnomey]

Great work so far Andy!

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks all. Sealed the decals with another spritz of Future so she's off limits tonight.

 

[T Bolt]

Looking very sharp with those decals on

 

[Crimea_River]

I applied a wash to the panel lines and tried to keep it somewhat restrained. Happy with the result:

To finish off the landing gear, I added brake lines and straps, then painted everything in bare aluminum. In hindsight, I'm thinking that perhaps the inner surfaces of the gear doors might have been Medium Sea Grey and am leaning toward redoing that area. Thoughts?

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Looks awesome.

 

[Wurger]

 

[le_steph40]

great work

 

[Airframes]

Nice, subtle panel line work Andy.
The interior colour of the wheel wells, doors etc on Hawker aircraft was normally 'silver'. However, I have seen a short film clip, and one colour photo only, where the wells and only the inner (small) door appeared to be the cockpit grey green, but silver seems predominant.
That said, in some B&W photos, the inner face of the main gear door looks like it might be MSG, and if so, probably re-painted at a MU or even in the field.

 

[T Bolt]

Very nice detailing Andy

 

[Crimea_River]

Cheers guys and thanks, Terry, for responding. I agree silver was common, certainly on Hurricanes, but I'd suggest the majority of B&W pics of Tempests suggest a colour difference between the inner door surfaces and the oleos, which are almost always silver. I think I will strip these off and repaint them MSG. Easily done.

 

[Catch22]

Looks fantastic.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far Andy!