Hawker Typhoon
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Closed up, landing gear details, filling and sanding next. Might have to take out a lone to pay for all the paint for this thing!
Starting to look like sumpin. Lots of scraping and sanding, but the plastic is soft so it goes fast!
This is the Airfix 1/24 Hawker Typhoon Mk.1B.
A complex build across 220+ steps of a 45+ page instruction guide, areas have been stripped back further to view the airframe "under the skin", and I've added details not found in [...]
In 1983, Britain, France, Spain, Italy and West Germany formed a consortium to produce a European answer to the Su-27 and the Mig 29. France left the consortium in 1985 and Dassault subsequently produced the Rafale. In August 1986, [...]
A wee tutorial of getting that worn look to an aircraft’s camouflage by working with dry pigments. This is part of an ongoing video blog by Mr. Gary "Making Models Again" Bottoms.
Example kit in this case is the Airfix 1/72 [...]
Hi Yawl, Finished at last my little addition to the D-Day Build, the Academy Hawker Typhoon b1 in 1/72 scale
originally i was going to build the MPM A-20G Havoc but got completely bogged down with that one plus as per MPM's usual kits it [...]
Tiffy, a well-known British single-seat fighter-bomber. This is addition to my previous two models. HobbyBoss "Easy Assemble" 1/72 kit, very funny and fast build. Build thread here - (link)
The Monogram Typhoon is copyrighted 1967, though I don't remember seeing it before 1969. Whatever. It's old. Supposedly been completely replaced by the Hasegawa kits in 2000-2001. They go for US$45.00 or so. This goes for $16, and the [...]
Traditionally, the hallmark of a successful aircraft manufacturing company has been that future requirements should always be the concern of the Chief Designer and the project team. In other words, when the latest project has been [...]