African Storm...1/48 Hawker Typhoon Mk.Ib cardoor, RAAF
Built in 2012.
In mid 1943 five Typhoons were intended for desert trials but only three made it to Egypt where they served and were tested by 451 Sqn RAAF until October 1943.
They were fitted with a trop filter. Sadly found no (close-up) pic of these filters, rare information in general, so back then my dad looked what other modelers did, added some self interpretation and did some scratchwork.
Hasegawa kit, serials are from Techmod, Gunze and Tamiya acrylics, the Azure is from Model Master.
20 additional images. Click to enlarge.
John vd Biggelaar said on January 30, 2021
First time I see a Typhoon in desert scheme.
It looks beautiful, Reinhard.
Like the weathering a lot, especially on the bottom it looks awesome.
An absolute "Like".
Roland Sachsenhofer said on January 30, 2021
Wonderful pictures of a somewhat different Typhoon- an impressive model!
Joshua Zwierko said on January 30, 2021
Awesome. Typhoon is probably my favorite planes of ww2
Spiros Pendedekas said on January 30, 2021
Love this Typhoon in desert colors!
Tom Cleaver said on January 30, 2021
I love the out of the ordinary scheme.
DE4EVER said on January 31, 2021
🙂 ... Greetings ... 🙂 :
Nice work on that model Reinhard.
That desert camouflage gives the Typhoon a different look, love it.
Good work on the light weathering.
Doug Humphrey said on January 31, 2021
Great looking Typhoon. Liked.
Reinhard Spreitzhofer said on February 1, 2021
Thank you very much!
Greg Kittinger said on February 2, 2021
A beauty! Anything looks better in desert garb...