Hawker Typhoon 1/24 "Pulverizer IV"

[Spitfire]

This is looking great, love the paint job

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

[Trigger]

Waiting for paint masks now, meanwhile busy with some weathering on the leading edges and putting on the yellow line on the outer leading edges. painted the canopy and a lot of loose parts.  Before i put on the camo colours i first sprayed the leading edges in flat aluminum withe the idea when the camo was put over it i could then give a slight rub to get the aluminum to shine through the camo colours. Some pictures here to see what i mean,

 

 

 

Also placed the chin radiator, sprayed that one to dark, must change that to match the rest of the aircraft

 

 

Dry fitted the bombs under the wings,  looks awesome, i can imagine that those germans must have been pretty scared when an aircraft with such a load came down on them

 

 

 

 

Just a small update, as soon as i got my paint masks i can get going  on the roundels and the insignia, so till next time,

 

 

Frank

[Wingco57]

Wow Frank,

That looks great. How does the chincowl fit?

Cheers

Cees

[Trigger]

Wow Frank,

That looks great. How does the chincowl fit?

Cheers

Cees

 

Hello Cees,

 

Thanks for the comment,

 

The chincowl in my case is a poor fit, but this is because i wanted to build the Tiffie with al cowlings of, and decided further in the build to place the chin radiator because it looks awesome, and really gives this aircraft an "aggressive " look. that's when the problem occurred, you really have to decide in advance what version you are going to build and then stick to it. i now have a "gap" from approximately 1 mm where the under cowling meets the underside of the wing, clearly visible on my last photo's. i also fell in to the trap that George has encountered when fitting the engine. I also had to remove a piece of the rear part of the engine to make it fit to it's support's

and to make  it fit to the firewall. i have not removed enough, resulting in that 1 mm gap. so beware when you fit the engine, i believe it's better to remove the entire support that should fit in the firewall before fitting the engine, then the engine simply falls in to place on it's supports, and you should have no issues when placing the radiator.

The key word is dry fit, dry fit and again dry fit.

In my case i will keep the chin cowling as a loose part, as i intend to make a diorama around this one with complete re-armament crew.

 

Looking forward to your progress photo's by the way,

 

greetings,

 

Frank

 

(p.s received my masks today from maketar, they make the masks with the right insignia for the Pulverizer IV, complete with canopy masks, wheel masks etc., so i 

 can get busy with that, looking forward to that job)

[Layton]

Excellent paintwork so far

Can I as if you will do/add some chipping effect or weathering?

 

Cheers

[Trigger]

Hello guys,

 

Here's an update on the Tiffie, been busy getting  the roundels sprayed on, tedious job and a lot of masking, specially because all the roundels have four colours.

Here are some pictures,

 

 

Now  i have to do some weathering on those roundels and insignia, now they look to "fresh" . Next step is to put a coat of clear on the aircraft to get a good underground for the other little decals that can not be sprayed on, but that's all for the next time,

 

Frank