Coming along fine, George, she's looking great and some nice research I may add.

Thanks, George (@chinesegeorge). I haven't built many Typhoons or Tempests, but I always thought they were an elegant-looking plane. I wanted to see what I could do with the old Monogram kit. Some of the old Monogram kits are very detailed, but this isn't one of them. It is a good, basic kit, so I think it will still come out fine.

This is looking very good George. I particularly like the work on the cockpit.

Just found this George. I used the Hasegawa kit for my build here...https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/done-gb-47-1-48-hawker-typhoon-fr-ib-ww2-d-day-and-after-western-front.54197/ It also contains other photos of the aircraft which should be helpful to you

I got a lot of prep work done today. I added the three apertures in the bottom of the port wing for the two downward-facing cameras and the one oblique (side-facing) camera. I initially cut the rear apertures too far back, so I filled them with some plastic rod and added the new apertures in a more appropriate place. I added some plastic tube to each hole, and then cut a cone shape to each tube. The outboard of the 3 cameras faces down the axis of the port wing, so I tilted the plastic rod to resemble the photograph I had of the apertures. The planes in the photos I had did not have rocket rails, so I filled the 8 holes in each wing for the rails. The inboard cannon on the port wing was removed on the actual plane, so it was also removed from the model. I cut the inboard cannon on the starboard wing to match the installation of the high speed movie camera on the actual aircraft. I did a quick dry fit of the wing and fuselage and found that the wing seems to fit perfectly. I am keeping my fingers crossed.

The wing position lights are separate parts, so these were painted red and green and added to the wings, along with the wing leading edge light covers.

I sanded some of the stiffeners off the rear fuselage when I was smoothing the seams, so I added a few to replace them.

Finally, I replaced the really sad gunsight that is molded with the instrument panel shroud. I scratchbuilt the framework for the gunsight, and then added a scratchbuilt gunsight. I still need to add glass, but I think it looks a lot better.

That's it for today. Hopefully more tomorrow.

Thanks, Louis (@lgardner). I am always looking for something a little different to do, and the PR/FR versions of the Typhoon popped up when I was searching for a scheme for this model. Of course, I pick something that has very little information available.

Some great techniques used, George @gblair
The new stiffeners and gunsight do look excellent.
You are doing a great job transforming this kit into a reconnaissance aircraft.

Hi George @gblair, I’m really impressed with the detail improvements you’re making to this old kit, along with the changes you are having to carry out for this photo reconnaissance version, it certainly had a lot of cameras. During my time In the RAF I could never understand why there were so many photo staff, now I know why. This was obviously in the pre-digital era. I’m really enjoying following this build.