Hawker Typhoon 123 Wing 6 June 1944
This is Hawker Typhoon MN570 flown by W/Cdr Peter Brooker on D-Day. The model is in 1/32 scale, being the MDC resin and white metal kit. A challenging but rewarding kit, now scarce but the only one available in this scale.
Excellent job and really great result, especially for a resin/white metal kit, Max!
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Thanks Spiros…..and a happy and healthy 2025 to you!
Well done, Max!
Nice work. Too bad it’s no longer available.
Agreed….managed to find one on eBay for a good price recently so I have another one to convert to an early car-door Tiffy, a “Bombphoon” this time!
Great work on this!
Excellent looking Typhoon, Max @maxw
Is that propeller really spinning or did you use imaging software for that.
Really spinning John, old school! Hairdrier!
I love the final result here Max (@maxw). I wish I had the room for 1/32 aircraft.
That is an impressive taming of the beast. I wish we could see the cockpit. MDC did a nice job of recreating the front office. Will you use a Revell canopy or one from Falcon/Squadron on the bomb-phoon? Recently I found a photograph of 187 Squadron flying with RPs. All except one were the car door variant. The caption for the photo did not say whether it was a training flight or an operational one. I mention this to say you have the latitude to use RPs and not limit yourself to the use of bombs on the car door Tiffies.
Thanks Russell for your comments. I have an incomplete old Revell car-type type that I'm going to do some "surgical" work on to graft usable bits on to the MDC Tiffy including of course the smaller horizontal tailplane. I have a friend who is printing some 500lb bombs and carriers for me because I want a Bombphoon to sit alongside the later RP type. I must admit I didn't go to town on the "office" since so little is visible, especially with the pilot in place.
2 attached images. Click to enlarge.
Impressive!
Great job Max!
Very nice!