**** DONE: GB-47 1:48 Hawker Typhoon FR IB - WW2 D-Day and After – Western Front

[Wayne Little]

Doing a great job there George, I strip my airbrush every time flush out with water first then use IPA cleaning inside and out with my own little cleaning brush thingy....really high tech gizmo....will have to take a pic.....

 

[rochie]

Looks great Geo

 

[N4521U]

As always we can count on a great job mate!

 

[Crimea_River]

Looks like you're getting that effect Geo.

 

[fubar57]

Clear coated the dust and sprayed thinned Tamiya XF-24 Dark Gray for the exhausts. The clear didn't tone down the area behind the cockpit as much as I expected and my exhaust work always looks better on the mule. I may have this done by Tuesday

 

[Crimea_River]

Arrr, there be grunge......

 

[fubar57]

Just an oddity to throw out here. I'm left-handed yet I hold the airbush with my right hand

EDIT: adding to that oddity, the propeller tips aren't yellow.......any more

 

[Crimea_River]

I'm right handed but swing my golf clubs left. And my clubs don't have yellow tips either.

 

[fubar57]

Doing the sticky-outy bits and found a photo of the stirrup footstep that is coloured brassish and the support a lighter grey than MSG, done. It also showed the underside antenna as being yellow. Was this correct? This isn't the first mentioned photo....copyright thang, but its a photo of the same aircraft

 

[Wayne Little]

Progress is Good George.

My high tech cleaning gizmo.....I remove the plastic moulded handles and fit the "brushes" into a section of brass tube crimpted with pliers to keep them in place, gets right into the hard to get places.....

 

[Crimea_River]

Never seen yellow spike antenna but there's lots of things I haven't seen. If that's the RAF Hendon sample then there are a few things not original to it.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Andy, thought that as well. I'll stick to a grey. You would not believe all the left handed golfers we have here, possibly 35%. When we have our Men's Night "Iron Man" wrap-up, we have 90 three man teams and one of the team is a leftie. Good stuff Wayne. I used a similar thing for cleaning around the slotted nozzle cap. I'm looking for a crown cap replacement at the moment for ease of cleaning

 

[Crimea_River]

I played in a company tournament in the 80s where 3 of my foursome were lefties. Just happened by chance.

 

[Airframes]

The spike antenna beneath the fuselage is for the I.F.F. and, as far as I know, was pale yellow.
On1950s RAF aircraft, these were normally a "solid" yellow, but in colour footage and stills of, for example, wartime Lancasters, the I.F.F. antenna looks to be a faded or pale yellow.
The boarding "stirrup" step would normally be either bare metal, or painted silver, as on the Hurricane, with the underside of the step itself in MSG.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks for that Terry, changed the stirrup and don't have a pale yellow so left the I.F.F. antenna as grey. Drilled out the navigation light and put in appropriate colors. Added a whip antenna to the spine. The wheel location holes are over sized for the axles so I used CA for attachment. This took some doing as the wheels have flat spots and I needed to make sure everything aligned before the glue set. As mentioned earlier, the clear parts are a tad under-sized so the fit is the best I could. The canopy wouldn't sit flush no matter how much I scraped material off the inside. In the end, I put three small dabs of CA on each side and pressed into place. HOWEVER..........a bit of CA escaped onto my thumb and left about a 2mm² fingerprint on the left side. A coat of Future managed to remove some but not all. I should be able to get the finals up before the bus

Something I forgot to mention, the hole for the pitot tube wasn't added. I checked the instructions to make sure that I hadn't missed the part that said to open a flashed over hole but it wasn't there. Step 7 shows the pitot tube being inserted into a hole. I estimated and drilled in a hole

 

[Airframes]

Sounds good.
For "pale yellow", just add a tiny spot of white to the yellow paint, or, give a thinned coat of yellow over the grey.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks for the heads up on the pitot tube hole Geo.

 

[T Bolt]

Great job with the weathering George