Polux's Hawker Typhoon Cut-Away.

[papa 695]

Some great pictures for your reference there Polux

[Ian M]

Rather you than me!

I could not bring myself to cut up that kit like that. I have confidence in you P.

Ian M

[takeslousyphotos]

Well...I can’t start the model, but I can play with the colour paints, searching a good future option. I took an old piece and primed with Vallejo black. Just five minutes later I applied the three different products. These are the results after I has been applied and polished thirty minutes later ONLY!!!

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Why I go so fast?? The reason is I want to know the “resistance” of the product and the other one is I habitually work with the colour coats not dried....

My surprise is the resistance of the wax one as the final colour as well.

Tomorrow I will prove the washes

Ps: The Alclad one is the dull aluminium.....not the normal one!

Polux .............. I really like the AK True Metal finish ............ I think you've given me the colour for my Last Exile "Vanship" when it arrives ........... Thanks.

Peter

[Dave W]

Good luck with the surgery Polux.I couldn't bring myself to do that to such an expensive kit.

[tr1ckey66]

Thi is a very ambitious project Polux, but I have absolutely no doubt at all that the end result will be stunning.

Cheers

P

[Guest]

Hawker Typhoon Cut-AwayI propose myself to separate this build on two parts or sides.

First Side.

The first one will be a cut-away side. The major part of the job has been done by Airfix....I just need to recreate, principally, the wings edges and the back tail as well. I’m not a habitual scratch build modeller, so this will be an interesting challenge for me.

I found some useful pictures and photos, but I will need to research more info to reproduce a relative accurate model.

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Second Side.

The second side will be built as a normal kit. The challenge there is the paintwork.... I commented sometime ago I don’t like the colour scheme on the Typhoon o_O, so I decided to do an absolutely different paintwork process. I will keep the original form of the camouflage scheme, but painted over metallic finished parts.....like transparencies! The real challenge is the product that I will use....

This new product is like an oil colour with a wax base....

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Not...! I never used it before!! So it will be a new discovering

As you can deduce, I will paint the entire Typhoon with brushes or sponges

A SSIG, that hope, teaches me a lot of new tips and skills

Cheers

Polux

Suspect this product is an update of the Rub 'n Buff product I used on my E.E. Lightning a few years ago, it was an oily wax, and very good. I know you like challenges Polux, and you have certainly picked a hard one, but I know you will achieve an excellent result, be watching you. Derek

[BarryW]

Suspect this product is an update of the Rub 'n Buff product I used on my E.E. Lightning a few years ago, it was an oily wax, and very good. I know you like challenges Polux, and you have certainly picked a hard one, but I know you will achieve an excellent result, be watching you. Derek

Phil Flory did a review of True Metal and he said that he thought it might be like this rub 'n buff, but his conclusion was no, the TM is a lot better (he did not like rub 'n buff at all).

I am looking forward to the Polux... great reference material.

[Guest]

Funny how different people get different results from the same product. Derek

[colin m]

Funny how different people get different results from the same product. Derek

I used rub 'n' buff on a B36 - took forever, but worked well. I had silver fingers for days afterwards.

Polux, I'm still not quite believing I'm about to watch one of these get cut up. I salute you.................