TimHepplestone

Calling it finished. Revell He 162. First time using MIG paints which I must say spray beautifully. OOB except for some Eduard etch in the cockpit. Left wing left "unpainted" to represent its wooded construction. Call it artistic licence.
 
 



 

I'm lucky enough to have acquired an Echelon kit which seem to appear as a result of estate sales. Which mine actually was.
 
Unfortunately it seems the Trumpy kit is likely to be the only release by a major manufacturer for this generation at least. And yes, a Revell kit by for instance the Ju 88 design team would have been light years ahead of the Chinese team in both basics and finesse. 
 
However, as I would really like a short tank triangular fin companion to the heavyweight F6  (why did they never strap 4 x AIM-9Ls a'la Crusader to it in the early '80s? Yeah yeah i know, short life expectancy), I think the most likely route will be via an increasingly rare Trumpy kit mated with Iain's correction sets.

Not really a blow torch guy but this bird is certainly impressive.  I hope somethings comes of this article because it always great to see one finished.   What a looker she is .   All the best going forward gent’s.  
 
Troy.  

The canopy/windshield and afterburners are the most glaring of the faults of the kit.
Build it with open canopy and add resin in the cockpit, and you're halfway there.
Afterburners? Aires are good, but you have to spend the rest of your life filing and sanding to get them in place!
Ian (32nd Group) worked on replacements, but they never showed up in the marketplace.
 
Stein M 

A lot of the problems can be tweaked away to the satisfaction of most. It's the windshield quarter panels that let it down for me — they're level, but look slightly angled up, instead of angled slightly down. Hmm, judicious use of filler, masking tape and painting might fix it.
 
F.1A/3 problem is the chunky wings with camber that shouldn't be there, but again fixable to pass the "will it bother me looking at five years after I finish it?" test. 
 
Have an F.1A/3, F.6 and an already chopped F.6 to convert into a T.53/55 trainer using Whirlybird parts. The Aires resin jetpipes are super but you almost have to destroy the rear fuselage — down to waffer-thin or gaps — to make it fit, then fill the gaps. 
 
The E E Lightning is the kind of subject Revell should have done for fifty quid a pop back in the old days, along with its alleged Hunter T.7 which never quite made it. But the Trumpeter kits look impressive built-up even just OOB.
 
Tony 

I started this a long time ago but it hits many of the problems to build a more accurate Lightning. I have seen some very nice OOB renditions but if you are a fan of the aircraft you will see many of these issues. No model is perfect it is just a shame that this one is less perfect than most :-(
 
 
 
 

In the defence of all reviewers all over the internet, they cannot be "experts" in everything. Reviewers are like competition judges. Mostly, they can only judge "quality of execution". They can just tell you about quality of finish, quality of detail and how convincing it is.  If they happened to know the subject inside-out, then they might be able to point out eventual issues. But, honestly, how do you expect the reviewer of a website like Hyperscale (or LSP, for that matter) who has to review a bewildering variety of a multitude of models to know everything about everything? 
Radu 

I'm sure others will detail the good and points of the kit  and  there are pleny of downsides - the main one being the simplistic feel of the kit, rather like a 1/48th scale kit pantographed upto 1/32 , and the simplistic engines/Wheels/cockpit  and the incorrect fusalage length 
 
But I'm more intrested in the fact that you found one in the first case, I've got a T5 conversion sitting on the shelf waiting for find an F1/F3 kit for less than a king's ransom! - they seem to be rarer than hen's teeth these days
 
colinR
 
 

I have build the F.6 a couple of weeks ago and it shure was fun..., i just added a pilot, Eduard Interior, a new pitot, correct length landing gear and resin wheels...
I like the kit....

I started this to take a break from the vacuform ATR kit, after a solid week of building (great enjoyment though) I have most of an engine glued together and painted and very slightly weathered. 

I’ve just picked up the Trumpeter English Electric second hand. I was wandering if anyone on here has built one and if so any comments to concerns with the kit? Also , What am bits might be worth adding? Any advise would be appreciated .
 

With mojo running low I decided I needed a cheap and cheerful build. Out came Revell's Mk IX Spitfire. Adding a pilot obviated the need for lots of cockpit detailing (as well as demonstrated my ineptitude at figure painting). Aside from the pilot its OOB. Markings are RCAF  416 Squadron out of Tangmere in 1944 as per the kit. The major markings are sprayed using montex masks. The invasion stripes are speculative on my part as I have no evidence this aircraft ever had them. Call it modelling licence and anyway  I just like the look of them. 1944 Spitfire without invasion stripes is like alcohol free beer - missing something. Painted with  Mr Color RAF late war set. I must confess that I'm really impressed with the paints. They spray easily and dry quickly to a hard satiny finish,
 

 


 
 

With mojo running low I decided I needed a cheap and cheerful build. Out came Revell's Mk IX Spitfire. Adding a pilot obviated the need for lots of cockpit detailing (as well as demonstrated my ineptitude at figure painting). Aside from the pilot its OOB. Markings are RCAF  416 Squadron out of Tangmere in 1944 as per the kit. The major markings are sprayed using montex masks. The invasion stripes are speculative on my part as I have no evidence this aircraft ever had them. Call it modelling licence and anyway  I just like the look of them. 1944 Spitfire without invasion stripes is like alcohol free beer - missing something. Painted with  Mr Color RAF late war set. I must confess that I'm really impressed with the paints. They spray easily and dry quickly to a hard satiny finish,
 

 


 
 

With mojo running low I decided I needed a cheap and cheerful build. Out came Revell's Mk IX Spitfire. Adding a pilot obviated the need for lots of cockpit detailing (as well as demonstrated my ineptitude at figure painting). Aside from the pilot its OOB. Markings are RCAF  416 Squadron out of Tangmere in 1944 as per the kit. The major markings are sprayed using montex masks. The invasion stripes are speculative on my part as I have no evidence this aircraft ever had them. Call it modelling licence and anyway  I just like the look of them. 1944 Spitfire without invasion stripes is like alcohol free beer - missing something. Painted with  Mr Color RAF late war set. I must confess that I'm really impressed with the paints. They spray easily and dry quickly to a hard satiny finish,
 

 


 
 

With mojo running low I decided I needed a cheap and cheerful build. Out came Revell's Mk IX Spitfire. Adding a pilot obviated the need for lots of cockpit detailing (as well as demonstrated my ineptitude at figure painting). Aside from the pilot its OOB. Markings are RCAF  416 Squadron out of Tangmere in 1944 as per the kit. The major markings are sprayed using montex masks. The invasion stripes are speculative on my part as I have no evidence this aircraft ever had them. Call it modelling licence and anyway  I just like the look of them. 1944 Spitfire without invasion stripes is like alcohol free beer - missing something. Painted with  Mr Color RAF late war set. I must confess that I'm really impressed with the paints. They spray easily and dry quickly to a hard satiny finish,
 

 


 
 

Lovely finish and beautifully photographed 

Brilliant build Gary.  So good you’ve made want to go out and buy one . Not that I think I good pull off that nmf as well as this one 

With mojo running low I decided I needed a cheap and cheerful build. Out came Revell's Mk IX Spitfire. Adding a pilot obviated the need for lots of cockpit detailing (as well as demonstrated my ineptitude at figure painting). Aside from the pilot its OOB. Markings are RCAF  416 Squadron out of Tangmere in 1944 as per the kit. The major markings are sprayed using montex masks. The invasion stripes are speculative on my part as I have no evidence this aircraft ever had them. Call it modelling licence and anyway  I just like the look of them. 1944 Spitfire without invasion stripes is like alcohol free beer - missing something. Painted with  Mr Color RAF late war set. I must confess that I'm really impressed with the paints. They spray easily and dry quickly to a hard satiny finish,
 

 


 
 

I enjoyed mine. Cockpit detail is a bit thin so I stuck a pilot in. Nothing that can’t be sorted with some scratch building and some belts.. Looks every bit a spitfire after painting and weathering. I used masks for the painting on mine as I was worried about the decals settling a around the lumps and bumps. Especially the large roundels on the wings
 
 

With mojo running low I decided I needed a cheap and cheerful build. Out came Revell's Mk IX Spitfire. Adding a pilot obviated the need for lots of cockpit detailing (as well as demonstrated my ineptitude at figure painting). Aside from the pilot its OOB. Markings are RCAF  416 Squadron out of Tangmere in 1944 as per the kit. The major markings are sprayed using montex masks. The invasion stripes are speculative on my part as I have no evidence this aircraft ever had them. Call it modelling licence and anyway  I just like the look of them. 1944 Spitfire without invasion stripes is like alcohol free beer - missing something. Painted with  Mr Color RAF late war set. I must confess that I'm really impressed with the paints. They spray easily and dry quickly to a hard satiny finish,
 

 


 
 

With mojo running low I decided I needed a cheap and cheerful build. Out came Revell's Mk IX Spitfire. Adding a pilot obviated the need for lots of cockpit detailing (as well as demonstrated my ineptitude at figure painting). Aside from the pilot its OOB. Markings are RCAF  416 Squadron out of Tangmere in 1944 as per the kit. The major markings are sprayed using montex masks. The invasion stripes are speculative on my part as I have no evidence this aircraft ever had them. Call it modelling licence and anyway  I just like the look of them. 1944 Spitfire without invasion stripes is like alcohol free beer - missing something. Painted with  Mr Color RAF late war set. I must confess that I'm really impressed with the paints. They spray easily and dry quickly to a hard satiny finish,
 

 


 
 

With mojo running low I decided I needed a cheap and cheerful build. Out came Revell's Mk IX Spitfire. Adding a pilot obviated the need for lots of cockpit detailing (as well as demonstrated my ineptitude at figure painting). Aside from the pilot its OOB. Markings are RCAF  416 Squadron out of Tangmere in 1944 as per the kit. The major markings are sprayed using montex masks. The invasion stripes are speculative on my part as I have no evidence this aircraft ever had them. Call it modelling licence and anyway  I just like the look of them. 1944 Spitfire without invasion stripes is like alcohol free beer - missing something. Painted with  Mr Color RAF late war set. I must confess that I'm really impressed with the paints. They spray easily and dry quickly to a hard satiny finish,
 

 


 
 

With mojo running low I decided I needed a cheap and cheerful build. Out came Revell's Mk IX Spitfire. Adding a pilot obviated the need for lots of cockpit detailing (as well as demonstrated my ineptitude at figure painting). Aside from the pilot its OOB. Markings are RCAF  416 Squadron out of Tangmere in 1944 as per the kit. The major markings are sprayed using montex masks. The invasion stripes are speculative on my part as I have no evidence this aircraft ever had them. Call it modelling licence and anyway  I just like the look of them. 1944 Spitfire without invasion stripes is like alcohol free beer - missing something. Painted with  Mr Color RAF late war set. I must confess that I'm really impressed with the paints. They spray easily and dry quickly to a hard satiny finish,
 

 


 
 

With mojo running low I decided I needed a cheap and cheerful build. Out came Revell's Mk IX Spitfire. Adding a pilot obviated the need for lots of cockpit detailing (as well as demonstrated my ineptitude at figure painting). Aside from the pilot its OOB. Markings are RCAF  416 Squadron out of Tangmere in 1944 as per the kit. The major markings are sprayed using montex masks. The invasion stripes are speculative on my part as I have no evidence this aircraft ever had them. Call it modelling licence and anyway  I just like the look of them. 1944 Spitfire without invasion stripes is like alcohol free beer - missing something. Painted with  Mr Color RAF late war set. I must confess that I'm really impressed with the paints. They spray easily and dry quickly to a hard satiny finish,
 

 


 
 

With mojo running low I decided I needed a cheap and cheerful build. Out came Revell's Mk IX Spitfire. Adding a pilot obviated the need for lots of cockpit detailing (as well as demonstrated my ineptitude at figure painting). Aside from the pilot its OOB. Markings are RCAF  416 Squadron out of Tangmere in 1944 as per the kit. The major markings are sprayed using montex masks. The invasion stripes are speculative on my part as I have no evidence this aircraft ever had them. Call it modelling licence and anyway  I just like the look of them. 1944 Spitfire without invasion stripes is like alcohol free beer - missing something. Painted with  Mr Color RAF late war set. I must confess that I'm really impressed with the paints. They spray easily and dry quickly to a hard satiny finish,