1/32 Westland Whirlwind

[KevinM]

She is looking great Jeroen(always have to go look every time for spelling)

[JeroenPeters]

1 hour ago, KevinM said:

She is looking great Jeroen(always have to go look every time for spelling)

Good man! The oe in dutch sounds like the ou in ‘you’. 

[KevinM]

2 hours ago, JeroenPeters said:

The oe in dutch sounds like the ou in ‘you’.

Really! Always figured Jer-rone  in English?

[JeroenPeters]

6 minutes ago, KevinM said:

Really! Always figured Jer-rone  in English?

Haha i know. But it’s more like yuh-roon. Anyhow: i’d respond to a loud Jer-rone just as well

[JeroenPeters]

Here we go again…. The Czech MH models masks for the numerals and codes prove to be uniseful. The inner shapes of the letters P are gone and positioned somewhere else on the vinyl. Looks like an error i sometimes have with my software as well. Anyhow… drew my own (again) and cut my own masks (again). I will not buy MH masks again.

 

[JeroenPeters]

Sprayed the P7111 serial. All masks are cut by myself sofar. MH models did reply to my reaching out. They said the inmer shapes of the letter P was deliberately postioned elsewhere on the masking sheet to prevent shifting of the mask during cutting. I guess that makes sense, but my Cricut has no issues.

[JeroenPeters]

Nom nom nom…

i’m sorry I can’t say who cut these masks for me, but theyre too good not to share.

 

[Martinnfb]

Sweet!

[belugawhaleman]

Really enjoying this build! NICE WORK!!!

[JeroenPeters]

Here’s the P7111 in close up. Clearly showing the overpainted older camo scheme with three Bellows text spared out.

 

[JeroenPeters]

Yellow leading edges painted and underwing roundels sprayed. 
Now i need to source a 1manarmy spitfire or hurricane mask set for the W/T stencils.

 

[JeroenPeters]

Might as well go all out! Only needed the W/T mask for 10 decal replacements. Bought the 1manarmy mask set for the Spit mk1 for that purpose. I used one mask 10x and it’s still perfect!

 

[JeroenPeters]

Started the panel line washes. Can’t wait for some matt finish and pencil weathering…

 

[JeroenPeters]

Somehow the distance between the code and the Bellows Uruguay is way bigger on my model than the reference. At least i fixed the spacing between the two words. I need to get this bird finished or it will end me!

 

[JeroenPeters]

So. A few people noticed the red upper roundel was too far inboard. I couldn’t live with it so i stripped the wing. Resprayed the camo and reapplied the roundel. Pfff.

Let’s weather the heck out of this thing now!

 

[JeroenPeters]

The colours are maybe better in this light.

 

[JeroenPeters]

Another thing I was wrestling was this: How would the colour be like UNDER the extended slats? Would the camo pattern stop there? Impossible to find any photographs. The only thing I have to go by is this in game footage of the Warthunder game. You can see the green of the camo stopping there.

I will change this on my model.

 

[Count0]

On 5/14/2025 at 2:10 AM, JeroenPeters said:

Warthunder game

I wouldn't trust that game as a reference for a moment. 

[JeroenPeters]

2 hours ago, Count0 said:

I wouldn't trust that game as a reference for a moment. 

I understand. But if reference is lacking you have to use common sense. This makes sense.

[KevinM]

8 hours ago, JeroenPeters said:

I understand. But if reference is lacking you have to use common sense. This makes sense.

I concur looks more reasonable than my first thought of a primer of some type.

[Count0]

4 hours ago, KevinM said:

primer of some type

Primer is possible. I guess it depends on how the slats work, powered or gravity.  I always wonder about this. After listening to the Tank Museum chats about the qualitative shortcoming of (some) British tanks seems like they would have done whatever was easiest.