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- Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:24 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Work in Progress
- Topic: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
- Replies: 25
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Re: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
Thanks Tom! Appreciate the kind words! Hey, you're no slouch yourself! Honestly, I think the cockpit details here are a little "heavy-handed" but I think that is residual from my 1/32 scale builds. It's hard to adjust the detail level to this scale because everything is so much smaller. Bu...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: Aircraft Work in Progress
- Topic: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
- Replies: 25
- Views: 153
Re: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
Fantastic work as always John. Even in this scale! Thank you John! I appreciate it! Repair....I don't see no stinkin' repair. Looks great, you'd never know you had an issue Thanks Johnny! Because of how the part broke, I was able to align the breaks so that the parts fit back together naturally. Th...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:21 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Work in Progress
- Topic: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
- Replies: 25
- Views: 153
Re: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
Thanks guys! Last night, I went a little further and tried to get the instrument panel into place. https://i.postimg.cc/hjWc23Wk/IMG-5757.jpg A little too much pressure and the starboard side sidewall collapsed. https://i.postimg.cc/GtbrC8pz/IMG-5759.jpg I managed to get the tubular frame back toget...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:15 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Work in Progress
- Topic: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
- Replies: 25
- Views: 153
Re: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
Time to start cobbling the cockpit parts together. Here is the floor board with the foot rests and control stick in place. https://i.postimg.cc/BZgCV53y/IMG-5748.jpg I've decided to use the decaled instrument panel instead of the photoetch. Detail is noticeably heavier than the PE but this might be ...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:56 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Work in Progress
- Topic: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
- Replies: 25
- Views: 153
Re: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
Moving along now, I've painted most of the cockpit components separately. The green color is AK Real Color RAF Cockpit Grey Green (RC293).
The tail wheel well has been painted and weathered.
The tail wheel well has been painted and weathered.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Work in Progress
- Topic: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
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Re: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
The Eduard resin exhausts are nicely detailed despite their small size. Each array is about 1/2 inch long and I was afraid of them dropping into the fuselage when it came time to install them. https://i.postimg.cc/fRx2FRd8/IMG-5739.jpg So I boxed in the area with small pieces of sheet styrene. https...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Work in Progress
- Topic: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
- Replies: 25
- Views: 153
Re: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
Thank you Remco! The parts with PE enhancements have been given a coat of Mr Primer Surfacer 1000 including some scratchbuilt levers on the throttle quadrant. https://i.postimg.cc/rpQpb17s/IMG-5736.jpg The other cockpit parts are here including the footrest, tubular sidewall structure, seat and rear...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:51 am
- Forum: Aircraft Work in Progress
- Topic: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
- Replies: 25
- Views: 153
Re: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
Thanks guys! I've cobbled together two versions of the instrument panel. One is pre-painted Eduard photoetch panels glued onto the kit plastic parts (right). The other is the kit plastic parts with the molded detail and the kit decals placed over it (left). It took a bit of effort to get the decal t...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Work in Progress
- Topic: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
- Replies: 25
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Re: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
Yeah, it's good to try and do something different. And I'm planning on an overall NMF finish, which will be a first for me. From what I've read, its a quality kit so this should be a good way to hone off the rough edges after a long absence. Airfix as a relatively new Sea Fury in 1/48 that seemed to...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:13 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Work in Progress
- Topic: Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
- Replies: 25
- Views: 153
Eduard 1/48 Hawker Tempest II
Coming off a long break from modeling, I momentarily jumped back onto my Spitfire XIVe conversion but now as I await some additional 3D-printed parts from Laminar Flow Design, I am going to start something new and a little different. Straying from my normal WW2 fighter subjects, I am going to do a p...