Administrators James H Posted December 21, 2016 Administrators Share Posted December 21, 2016 Hi all, My car-door Typhoon is now finished. As much as this kit can punish the senses, I really do like it very much. Watch out for it in the next reprint of the 'How to Build...' book from Doolittle Media: 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikester Posted December 21, 2016 Members Share Posted December 21, 2016 You stud! Superb work, Jimbo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drifter Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 That is an insane good build. Well done. Something to strive for. for me personally. I will just need to get my skill levels up 2000%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingco57 Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Beautiful build Jimbo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators JeroenPeters Posted December 22, 2016 Administrators Share Posted December 22, 2016 Loving it!! Even more than your last one! Very noisy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Fran Posted December 22, 2016 Administrators Share Posted December 22, 2016 Beautiful piece of art!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolboxx Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Very classy build, top stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dances With Wolves Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Hi Jim. Cracking 'car door' - you say the Tiffie kit 'punishes the senses'; what's meant by that exactly? TTFN Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators James H Posted March 19, 2017 Author Administrators Share Posted March 19, 2017 1 hour ago, Dances With Wolves said: Hi Jim. Cracking 'car door' - you say the Tiffie kit 'punishes the senses'; what's meant by that exactly? TTFN Steve The endless hours, days scraping the seams on the cockpit parts due to tooling misalignment, and the cowls. Fitting those is enough to make a saint swear. Two of these, and the second was no easier. Still, it's a kit I love, and I'd easily build another. If this was tooled by another factory instead of those clowns in India, this kit would be perfect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dances With Wolves Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 23 hours ago, James H said: The endless hours, days scraping the seams on the cockpit parts due to tooling misalignment, and the cowls. Fitting those is enough to make a saint swear. Two of these, and the second was no easier. Still, it's a kit I love, and I'd easily build another. If this was tooled by another factory instead of those clowns in India, this kit would be perfect. Thanks for that Jim - yes, that does sound quite reminiscent. I think I referred to the cowl sanding on my North African car door as 'industrial'. I have slider and car door production kits in the loft and will build them both eventually. I was reminded by the Tamiya 1/32 Mossie I finished recently, what accurate mould alignment looks like. No reason why Airfix can't hit that standard too and now tooling is a UK based exercise, hopefully it'll become the case. I had a chat with Matt on the design team at Telford last year and the 'other' reason for repatriating the injection bit was 'problems with the plastic'. When the canopy issues on the slider were all the rage, one of the Indian operatives remarked 'but it's only a toy aeroplane'. Stone the bleeding' crows... Steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Wow, wonderful result, great convincing finish. I'm looking forward to build my non car door version, albeit since I read your comment about the seams I am a little afraid . Cheers Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padubon Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Whatever was wrong with the kit you surely corrected it. It looks very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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