BarryW's Hawker Typhoon Airfix 1:24

[grumpa]

EXCELLENT ! Typhoon my favorite WW2 British fighter, strafer, bomber . Built one many moons ago, long gone I'm afraid Carry on! Great work Jim

[BarryW]

Here she is in her invasion stripes. It has taken longer than I thought but the spacers provided by Miracle Masks worked well. You just have to get the first tape laid just right.


I have some touching up to do and some details to paint before getting the masks out again to paint the RAF roundels and fin flashes.


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[stona]

Nice! I do like a set of invasion stripes


Cheers


Steev

[Guest]

looks great. paintwork is fantastic

[Guest]

Great paintwork Barry. This is going to get a lot of great build medals!


Francesco

[Dave W]

Great paintwork Barry.The sort of standard mere mortals like me can only dream of achieving.

[Dave W]

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I'm not saying blue is wrong, just that I have never seen blue bulbs used for starboard navigation or position lights before. Coloured bulbs were used inside a clear cover, that much I know.

Just to add to this we have a French 757 in our hanger at Southend undergoing maintenance .One of the jobs we are doing is fitting winglets to it.Heres a pic of the removed original wing tips.Red and blue Nav light covers in this case.

[Dave W]

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I'm not saying blue is wrong, just that I have never seen blue bulbs used for starboard navigation or position lights before. Coloured bulbs were used inside a clear cover, that much I know.

And here's a Thomas Cook A321 with green bulb in the starboard wing!.

[flyjoe180]

Red and blue Nav light covers in this case.

That looks dark green to me, maybe a blueish tinge to the lens, but I'll bet you that it illuminates as a green.

[Ian M]

Looking great Barry.


Re the nav lights. I have often seen models with blue starboard lamps I think I read some place the early on green lamps where to light/bright and appeared almost white. Thus they used blue...


I don't have a clear blue, so use green..

[Dave W]

That looks dark green to me, maybe a blueish tinge to the lens, but I'll bet you that it illuminates as a green.

As you will no doubt know Joe,Civil aviation regulations dictate a red light on the port wing tip and a green light on the starboard tip showing from dead ahead ,through an arc of 110 degrees to aft (remember that from my LAE exams some years ago).Just thought I'd be a bit mischeveous and throw that pic in!.Green can look blue under certain lighting conditions.

[papa 695]

That is coming along very nicely indeed Barry

[tr1ckey66]

Hey Barry


What can I say?! Your Tiffy is looking absolutely stunning. It certainly looks as though you've enjoyed the build so far and the result is quite simply brilliant I hope my turns out as well.


When I do get round to opening that box and starting the Typhoon I will definitely be referring to this excellent build for tips and reference.


Great work


P

[BarryW]

I have touched up where needed and painted in some details such as the panels in the invasion stripes for the codes plus the exhausts. Mind you the exhausts are looking a bit shiny and bright but that will change after some washes and pigments. Tomorrow I will start the masking up ready to paint the roundels and flashes.


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[BarryW]

I have now finished painting the markings.


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I will do a bit of touching up later today but not much is needed.


I will then leave it for 48 hours to make sure all the paint has cured before applying a gloss coat. Then after that has also had 48 hours to cure I will apply the codes and stencilling using the decals. I will probably update next Saturday when that is done.