Looks good Greg but you could have saved yourself some tape and not bothered with masking the outer edges of the white, provided that you spray the white wider than needed for the stripe. You'll need to mask these edges for the camo colours anyway.
Bit more progress this weekend, with most of the painting completed. Next up will be the decals, which i am a bit nevous of as these are the ones supplied with the kit. Fortunately there are not too many.
Many thanks, once again, for all your comments, likes, and encouragement, it all makes the journey so much more enjoyable.
I am happy to say i have now completed my Typhoon, which has been a really nice kit to work with. The end result looks very much like the real thing, albeit there are a few small inaccuracies due to Hasegawa using the molds for the earlier model. An example being the leading edge landing lights which i can't see on period photos on this version of the Typhoon,
Now all i need to do is try and take some reasonable photos of it, which will appear in the finished thread, which i will post in a while. Theres also a bit i will add about the pilot of the particular machine i have modelled dug up from the net.
Meanwhile here is a couple of bench photos of the beast, armed and ready! Thanks for looking, cheers Greg.
Nice looking model. The reason that you don't see landing lights in period photos is twofold. First, later Typhoons only carried the port one and secondly, the rocket carriers often had the lenses faired over as the they could be damaged from the rocket exhausts.
Nicely done Greg.
I agree with Andy regarding the landing lamps, although I've also heard / read that two lamps were originally fitted, but that one, or both, were faired over, for the reasons given by Andy.