MDC + Revell car door Hawker Typhoon kit bash

[Kaeone57]

Mmmmmm, Typhoon, Mmmmmm! NICE!!!!

 

Car door, or, Bubbletop? My apologies if mentioned before!

 

Alfonso 

[mozart]

28 minutes ago, Kaeone57 said:

Mmmmmm, Typhoon, Mmmmmm! NICE!!!!

 

Car door, or, Bubbletop? My apologies if mentioned before!

 

Alfonso 

This one is a car-door converted from a bubbletop kit Alfonso.

[monthebiff]

Fabulous work Max but that all looks very close and probably very difficult.

I'm. Intrigued !

 

Regards. Andy 

[DerekB]

5 hours ago, mozart said:

So the front end has been cut away:

Nothing is as simple as it seems. 

 

This is so much fun watching this Max! Bravo!

[mattlow]

18 hours ago, mozart said:

I wasn’t sure how the fit of the engine and bearers would go, but it’s now clear that there’s a lot of resin to grind away:

As you've got the Revell kit in pieces now, couldn't you graft the relevant thinner parts on here...? Might be an option.

 

Matt

[mozart]

Well no Matt, the whole idea is to use as much of the MDC kit as possible, just the Revell tail end and the canopy/windshield. 

  

[mozart]

A good hour's bench time this afternoon!  I started by grinding away the excess resin as highlighted in the last post, and by the way thank goodness I invested in one of these recently:

 

 

The "heavy duty" work that I have been doing would have taken hours with a knife and sander, but it's literally a few minutes with this beastie!

 

But when I offered the engine up, the prominent wing interlocking tab got in the way:

 

 

 

So it had to go.  

 

 

The plan is to pack the wing internal surfaces with plenty of epoxy :

 

 

I'm planning to fix the wing in place shortly and before joining the fuselage halves together now that I am confident that the engine in its present state (it's not quite finished especially the underside) fits:

 

 

It would be true to say that this simple conversion has thrown up a couple of unanticipated difficulties, but that's what makes life interesting int' it? 

Edited May 6 by mozart

[mozart]

No sooner said than done,

 

 

Solid as the Rock of Gibraltar! 

[dennismcc]

Nicely done Max, looking good.

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

[D.B. Andrus]

39 minutes ago, dennismcc said:

Nicely done Max, looking good.

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

+1

[Greif8]

You did a masterful job dealing with the fit issues Max!  Engine conversions always come with fit headaches it seems; even when using the kit parts, and aftermarket engines/bearers rarely fit right out of the gate in my experience.  I had to do some trimming and sanding on my recent FW 190 A-8 build, but it looks like you had a more complicated surgery which you did with your usual excellent workmanship.

 

Ernest

[mozart]

Thank you Ernest, I must admit this really is the kind of modelling that I love and find the most fulfilling, which probably explains why my Kotare Spitfire is currently sitting unfinished right now….It’s just too straightforward! 

[Tolga ULGUR]

Very nice progress Max 

[LSP_Kevin]

14 hours ago, mozart said:

Thank you Ernest, I must admit this really is the kind of modelling that I love and find the most fulfilling, which probably explains why my Kotare Spitfire is currently sitting unfinished right now….It’s just too straightforward! 

 

I suffer from the same preference!

 

Kev

[mozart]

Rather a lot of shrinkage on the flaps, “fits where it touches”: