**** DONE: 1/72 Typhoon Mk.Ib – Defence of Britain/Atlantic.

[Wurger]

 

[T Bolt]

Pictures 1-3 The "innards" in place
Picture 4 The fuselage glued up and test fitted to the wings

 

[Airframes]

Looking good Glenn. I hope to start on the 1/48th scale 'car door' Typhoon by the end of this coming week, if I get the Spitfire finished.

 

[T Bolt]

The Hasegawa Kit? I have that one in the stash too and was really tempted to build it in this GB, but with a normal work week this summer of over 70 hours I knew I would never get it finished.

 

[Airframes]

Yep, it's the Hasegawa kit, which I've had in the stash some time, to add to my 56 Squadron collection. Got a Monogram kit too, with resin 'Tempest' tail-planes and resin RPs, to build in a small diorama, liet he P-47 I did some time ago.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

Lots of nice Detail Glenn!

 

[le_steph40]

Very good detail for the scale!

I agree

 

[JKim]

Nice work on the cockpit! The Hase Car Door kit is a nice one but I had some fit problems on the upper fuselage, which is modular to accommodate the bubble top and car door versions in the same molding.

 

[T Bolt]

Nice work on the cockpit! The Hase Car Door kit is a nice one but I had some fit problems on the upper fuselage, which is modular to accommodate the bubble top and car door versions in the same molding.

I saw that when I had a look in the box and was wondering if that may be the case. Too bad

 

[fubar57]

Nice details on the teeny innards.




Geo

 

[Gnomey]

Great work so far Glenn!

 

[T Bolt]

I worked on some wing light improvements tonight. I imbedded short pieces of tubing in the opening for the landing lights to give the impression that there is something behind the clear plastic cover. I tried something a bit different for the red and green nav. lights. I cut them out and replaced then with pieces of clear sprue, but instead of painting a dot of color (red or green) and then adding the clear sprue, I tinted Testor's tube cement with the color and glued the sprue on. Hopefully it will turn out all right. At first I tried tinting CA glue with the paint (enamel) but found the CA and paint would not mix.

 

[rochie]

Nice improvements Glenn

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Good experiment Glenn, be interesting to see how it turns out.

 

[Wurger]

I agree with Vic. However the glass cover of the nav lights was made of clear glass. The light-bulbs were of a colour glass bulb.

 

[T Bolt]

I know, and I usually paint a dot for the bulb or sometimes drill a hole in the clear plastic and fill it with paint, but in this small scale it was too small to do it that way.

 

[Wurger]

I see.

 

[JKim]

Nice job on the lights! I think I would fill in the hole of the plastic tubing to disguise it a little or otherwise it looks like what it is... plastic tubing.

 

[T Bolt]

Nice job on the lights! I think I would fill in the hole of the plastic tubing to disguise it a little or otherwise it looks like what it is... plastic tubing.

I plan on putting a small piece of foil on it and pressing it slightly onto the hole of the tubing so it looks like the reflector of the light