One-Oh-Four
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YOUWSER!!!!! She's 13.
If the artwork is of your niece and she's 13, by all means, marry her. Supposedly a good American custom!
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane,
You broke my will, uh, uh, oh, what a thrill...
Goodnesss, gracious, GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!!!!
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Totally forgot I started this one already!!
Anyway, it was always my intention to build an early tailplane - 3blader Tiffie and a Tempest-tailplane - 4blader.
Since I started the 3-blader now, this thread will be under
for some while longer!Hmmmm, I think that our esteemed escape-Hatch has indeed uncovered a trend in my WIP's never proceeding past the first post....
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I say this kit a few days ago (too expencive here for me) but very nice... looked very straight forward and lovely details...
come on erik.. prove these Bast....s wrong mate!!
Yes, Sâh!!!
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Hi Erik I try this in the weekend post them later.
Have Fun
johan Bos
Lovely!!!
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Gets oooooold............
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Thought it was your daughter, you dirty old man!!
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Johan, again a truly great build!! Great spray-work, very good weathering!
I wonder if you are able to put your camera on a tripod (statief) and use it's timer (zelfontspanner) function? If you do that and your camera has the ability to set the aperture / diafragma at f/22 then you can get the whole model in focus in one shot!
Oh yeah, and I really LOVE Felix the Cat!!
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I've plunged into the deep and started Airfix 1/24 Hawker Typhoon.
It'll be MN131, a 3-blade, rocket-armed, bubble-top Typhoon that was fitted with the small tailplanes. EagleCal's terrific decals will be used.
I have to run now to get to work in time, update follows quickly!
The update:
These are the decals on the sheet, to give you an idea:
I also plan on using Airscale's instrument decals:
The seatbelts supplied in the kit are not the "standard Sutton-harness" used RAF-wide during WW-II, so I turned to Radu Brinzan for his lovely set of harness. It looks quite daunting but that hurdle will be taken when we get to it!
Staying with Radu's RB products, I plan to use the photo-etched radiator parts, keeping in mind that the kit parts may need to be sanded down a bit to get the whole assembly to fit.
Barracudacast's resin air intake promises to be a part that refines the radiator assembly effectively too!
And finally I'll be using Barracudacast's resin Typhoon wheels. I find them worth the small investment in money, seeing as how much finer the detail is.
Well, onto the kit then!!!!
This kit certainly isn't a "weekend-kit", you only have to glance at the heap of plastic to become aware of that....
One of the first things to tackle is the framing around the cockpit. That's also where you see that Airfix isn't in the Tamigawa league yet, no matter what all the fanboys may say! There are heaps of detail moulded in but here and there it reminds me some of the mouldings of Monogram.... The parts show really distinctive mould-seams and sometimes the mould halves aren't exactly "calibrated". In parts with a circular cross-section, that means that you easily end up with an oval cross-section...
For my taste, the plastic is somewhat too soft, I prefer the harder Japanese plastic. But no fear, I'm enjoying myself with this Tiffie!
Cleaning up the right (errr... starboard) frame took me the entire modelling session of an evening. Do observe the difference between the basic part and the cleaned-up part, though. I used a No.11 Swan & Morton scalpel to scrape off the seams on the verical sides and the top sides. I didn't bother with the bottom sides as these will not be seen from the cockpit aperture.
Top is the treated part, bottom the raw part as it was cut off from the mould-tree.
To be continued.
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AFAIK the shortcomings are in the field of some inaccurate panellines? And -of course- the kit is around for some while so the latest mods won't probably not be incorporated... But for a sweet price, go for it!! Jake Melampy is working on a new Eagle book and over on LSP there is always geedubbleyer (or similar!) who has built some Eagles and knows the stuff!
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Yeah, I'm doing quite allright again, thanks!
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Jeroen,
Get this finished.
Too much sushi and prosecco isrotting your brainNice work!
What he said!
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The crowd would like to see some pics. Otherwise it did not happen.
Please the peasants.
Cees
Yes, please please them!
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Thanks, Cees!
Mine will be MN131, a Gloster Hucclecote-built (produced late 1943 - early 1944?) Typhoon Mk.Ib that flew with 609 Sqn.
The Duxford cockpit section shows aluminium painted framework and what seems to be interior grey floorboards.
The only surviving "complete" Typhoon -MN235- has had too much done to it for me to consider it original.
Thanks for your steerage, although MN131 should probably be labeled "mid-production", I'll go with your recommendation for a "late" Tiffie!
Cheers,
Erik.
BTW, are your iPad problems sorted yet?
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BTW, Jeroen & Cees, what do you like; the boat on Thursday night or the train on Friday morning?
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I should be there too! Although in earlier years I could have my autumn furlough guaranteed, because of some silly red tape it isn't guaranteed this year until the Thursday the week before!
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Cees, what are the correct colors for the cockpit and the firewall, etc.?
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I love it! I don't think it's too dirty at all! If you look at how wet and muddy Northwest France and West Belgium can be....
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Great results, Jim!!
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I should've stated initial insertion/landing of armor. But Erik is correct, A1's were the next batch in.
Hmmmm, the DD's were built on M4A1-hulls, weren't they? At least if the website below is correct...
http://the.shadock.free.fr/sherman_minutia/duplexdrive/duplexdrive.html
Quote: In January 1944, the most technologically advanced tank in the US arsenal was the M4A1(76), which was just beginning to roll off the assembly lines. These were wanted for the DD project until it was found that the first 160 were "already earmarked for another project". (They were being sent to the UK for troop familiarization). The Stock Control Branch advised the Army that 350 unused M4A1(75)s could be made available, and a Production Order was placed. The project was classified as "Secret", and therefore much of the documentation was not preserved.
During the course of work on the various US swimming tank experiments, one officer observed that the rounded contours of the cast hull Sherman gave it better "hydrodynamic properties". Perhaps this played into the US decision to convert only M4A1s? The tanks that were provided were unallocated, late 1943 models. Many were of December Pressed Steel Car production, and had such late features as "large" drivers' hatches and high bustle turrets. Two such examples were salvaged from the sea, and are on display in Torcross, England (above left, courtesy Alf Adams) and Port-en-Bessin, France (above right).
But okay; that's "searching for nails at low tide", another "Dutchism", as the DD-variant is a special conversion and really something else as the regular M4A1 issued to the troops.
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A Sherman is not a Sherman as a Sherman should be. It is very confusing to the non Shermanholics. The last time I tried to explain something Sherman to Mikester his eyes rolled up to the back of his head, Had give him an emergency shot of Yukon Jack. By the by…… at the beginning of the Normandy invasion the Yanks only landed the M4 75mm (dry) to keep the logistics problem to a minimum. Class dismissed.
And the M4A1 75mm (Dry) as in the kit. The 2nd AD landed at D+3 or D+6 IIRC...
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Now if a Junkers could be converted into a Hampden........
Naaaah!
Cees
You'll finish just as many as I do!
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Great progress, Jeroen!
I'm busy at the moment with a 1/72 He 111P-2....
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Very good looking progress!!