1/32 Hawker Tempest

[JeroenPeters]

Spent the day cutting and sanding the armament bay and flaps. 
Most work goes into the thinning of the plastic around the edges.

 

[JeroenPeters]

First work on the armament bay

 

[JeroenPeters]

Added a shim to the front of the pit.

 

[JeroenPeters]

This is where I need to pay attention. The cmk armament set was not designed to go with the eduard flaps. The rear of the armament set is also modelled in the pe flap. So either cut that section from the flap or sand down the bottom resin detail and join the two. Tricky

 

[JeroenPeters]

Painted the armament bay. Just because it’s impossible to do later. Now to the rear of this bay. It needs to be lower Photo etch part and upper cmk resin. This will require a lot of modification. We’ll see…

 

[JeroenPeters]

Getting there. A bit more sanding on the wheelbay sides to get the fuselage to fit.

 

[CANicoll]

Your Gun Bays look amazing.  I never could get my ammo belts to look as good as yours.  Nice work!

[BlrwestSiR]

Nice to see you got the cockpit to fit between the wheel bays. 

[JeroenPeters]

Getting a better and better fit. Top left wing is glued on. The other will be tricky.

 

 

[JeroenPeters]

Inserted one of the resin CMK gunports.

 

[CANicoll]

Looks like it fit pretty well?

[JeroenPeters]

Started work on the PE flaps

 

[CANicoll]

That looks terrific.  Nice detail in that flap - can't wait to see it painted.

[JeroenPeters]

Fitting, sanding and fitting. Armament bay is glued into position.

 

[Martinnfb]

Impressive detailing as always. 

[CANicoll]

Damn, this looks really good.  ALL of it.

[BlrwestSiR]

Stunning work. 

[JeroenPeters]

The photo etch flap under the armament bay. To obtain upper detail i’ll need to seriously thin the resin upper part.

 

[JeroenPeters]

This is by no means shake and bake. A week of sanding, fitting and more sanding got to to a decent fit between fuse and wings. 
 

[JeroenPeters]

Dryfitting the engine. So far so good. Cees warned me for gulwings if the pit and fuse pushed the wings apart. You see this often with this model turning it into a Stuka. Glad that after a lot of sanding this is averted.

 

[BlrwestSiR]

An incredible amount of quality work there Jeroen. 

How much of the and cockpit did you need to sand back for things to fit?

[JeroenPeters]

1 hour ago, BlrwestSiR said:

An incredible amount of quality work there Jeroen. 

How much of the and cockpit did you need to sand back for things to fit?

Almost nothing. Took a bit from the outside of the wheelbays. Had to thin some plastic in order to get the resin bulkhead to fit nicely though

[JeroenPeters]

Finally!!!

from the start i knew i wanted to make Ron Pottinger’s mount. He downed a few v1’s after he climbed up from infantry to the ranks of RAF pilot. He was shot down over Germany at the end of the war and taken POW. Grew to be very old, wrote a book and i have his signed photo. I knew i had seen a photo of his plane at Volkel (the Netherlands) somewhere. Searched for months. Then found it in a book i have on loan from Cees! Had it on my desk all this time. Goes to show Google isnt always your best friend.

 

 

[JeroenPeters]

Turns out the same photo is in the Wingleader book!

 

[CANicoll]

Masterful work!