GB-47 1/48 Hawker Typhoon - WW2 D-Day and After – Western Front

[Crimea_River]

"slowly" would be right!

This afternoon I trussed up my model and glued everything. The port side needed to have the wing lifted higher to get the right angle and the other side not so much - a shame because the starboard side had the bigger gap - hence the asymmetrical placement of the elastic bands in the following pics. The gap on the starboard side was filled with copious amounts of stretched sprue, Tamiya Extra thin, and then some CA for good measure. More filing and smoothing - yay.....

With the landing gear temporarily fitted, I checked that the distance from the wing tip to the bench top was the same on both sides with my dial vernier gauge - bang on!

So we file, sand, prime some more until the next update, which could be a while.....

 

[Wurger]

 

[rochie]

Putting me off doing mine !

 

[Wayne Little]

Please enjoy.....

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys.

Putting me doing off mine !

Karl, this lockdown has you talking like Yoda now!

 

[rochie]

Thanks guys.



Karl, this lockdown has you talking like Yoda now!

Can't even blame it on drink, haven't had any !

 

[Airframes]

What, no JD and Coke ? Shame on you Karl !!!

Nicely done Andy. A dial Vernier gauge eh - that's just too bl**dy posh !

 

[fubar57]

Good fix

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys.

.....A dial Vernier gauge eh - that's just too bl**dy posh !

Not really - it's a cheap plastic one that I inherited from someone and it's handy for the adjustable calipers.

 

[rochie]

What, no JD and Coke ? Shame on you Karl !!!

drank it all

 

[Airframes]

Hick !

I have a cheap, plastic caliper / circle cutter, but the adjustment for accurate measurement is so darned stiff, it's virtually useless. Think I've used it twice.
Bit late to help you now, but I've just found my detailed scale drawings for the Typhoon !

 

[Crimea_River]

No worries. I just needed to eyeball things rather than check accuracy.

 

[T Bolt]

A lot of good progress there Andy

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks Glenn. So....I think I'm finally done with the seam fixes and can move on with the next steps.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Airframes]

That's all turned out nicely Andy, well done.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys. My next Typhoon will use the small tail planes!

 

[Wayne Little]

Agree with Terry.....

 

[Airframes]

Andy, if you want to do another with Tempest tail-planes, then the "Ultracast" examples are designed to just slip over the Hasegawa mouldings.
I have some to be used with the old Monogram kit (my Hasegawa kit is the 'car door' version), and it looks like they'll also fit on that kit without much extra work

 

[T Bolt]

Bet you glad to get past that tail joint. It did turn out very nice