airscalePro 1/32 Typhoon - kit design WIP

[mozart]

Port and starboard…..what’s the issue? 

[LSP_Kevin]

Yep, port and starboard are standard (and logical!) terminology in aeronautical parlance.

 

Kev

[GMK]

2 hours ago, geedubelyer said:

 

Ummm, it's the car door version. See above.....

This is what I get for accidentally skipping some pages!

[airscale]

seems there will be a couple of unintentional options in the kit

 

Spoke to Chris Thomas and he said JP843 would have had the later car door and seat, so given I have designed the others already I will just have to find a marking option that uses them

 

Note the simplified internal panel and the jettison handle has been replaced by a wire loop somewhere

 

 

 

Peter

[mozart]

Hmmm, I had wondered about the seat. The initial “Hurricane-style” bucket seat was so rigid that the vibrations from the Sabre engine made it very uncomfortable to such an extent that there were rumours amongst pilots that it would affect their fertility! So they were gradually replaced during 1943 by the sprung version.

 

 

 

[mc65]

I haven't been around much lately, my fault... when I read about the Typhoon project, my heart sank. I love that mix of brutality, brutality, and... well, brutality. A real flying, lovely beast.
 

If I were asked to give an opinion, I'd prefer the bubbletop. The car door version was made by Revell. Anyone who wanted to try their hand at it would be well worth it... My two cents, of course.

[mozart]

7 minutes ago, mc65 said:

I haven't been around much lately, my fault... when I read about the Typhoon project, my heart sank. I love that mix of brutality, brutality, and... well, brutality. A real flying, lovely beast.
 

If I were asked to give an opinion, I'd prefer the bubbletop. The car door version was made by Revell. Anyone who wanted to try their hand at it would be well worth it... My two cents, of course.

The Revell kit was produced more than half a century ago….ie 50 years!   There is no comparison between models available then and now. There is of course a market for both car door and bubble too, both are equally desirable and I sincerely hope we may see both before too long. 

[airscale]

howdy pardners

 

the good news is the base IM designs are done and approved by the mouldmakers

 

..the bad news is it has taken 2 days to do 8479 recessed and 380 domed rivets on the fuselage and I am not even at the fin yet...

 

..for now they are just datapoints..

 

 

 

 

I don't doubt some won't survive the mould separation audit and will have to be removed, but hey, shoot for the moon right

 

Peter

[mozart]

Goodness gracious me Peter, you must have square eyes after all that! Makes the rivetting that you have done on your 1/18 scale models seem like child’s play I imagine. Looking superb though, can’t wait! 

[alaninaustria]

Now, that is dedication! Amazing to see and lovely to know that this will become available at some point!

Cheers

Alan

[quang]

56 minutes ago, airscale said:

the bad news is it has taken 2 days to do 8479 recessed and 380 domed rivets on the fuselage and I am not even at the fin yet...

I can tell a rivet-counter when I see one. 

[JayW]

1 hour ago, airscale said:

it has taken 2 days to do 8479 recessed and 380 domed rivets on the fuselage and I am not even at the fin yet...

 

..for now they are just datapoints..

 

Oh my Peter.  So I have incorporated rivet marks in 3D printed panels before, on panels I did not skin with aluminum where the awl punch was used instead.  For flush rivets, I just created little circles on the surface and did a "pipe' function to create a thin donut, which I could subtract away from the panel, leaving a rivet mark.  Times however many rivets.  I found that file size increases at quite a rate when such functions are done many many times.  With 8479 rivets, not including the protruding head types, is your file size going to go through the roof?   

[monthebiff]

2 hours ago, airscale said:

howdy pardners

 

the good news is the base IM designs are done and approved by the mouldmakers

 

Peter

Forget the rivets, surely this is the big news on this latest post. Peter mentioned earlier in this thread that as annoying and difficult as it is learning how to come up with an IM template, once you have learned how to do it the sky is the limit!

 

Regards. Andy

[CraigH]

12 hours ago, airscale said:

howdy pardners

 

the good news is the base IM designs are done and approved by the mouldmakers

 

..the bad news is it has taken 2 days to do 8479 recessed and 380 domed rivets on the fuselage and I am not even at the fin yet...

 

..for now they are just datapoints..

 

 

 

 

I don't doubt some won't survive the mould separation audit and will have to be removed, but hey, shoot for the moon right

 

Peter

Oh no Peter, you've miscounted. There are 8480 ! 

[airscale]

a question to my learned friends...

 

It seems the port side door of the typhoon was never really opened - Chris Thomas, the expert & Wingleader author only has one pic with it open when an airframe was in maintenance.

 

Should I mould it shut and tool up the fuselage & transparencies so that side is just part of the structure?

 

I am leaning that way, but again, it is more redesign work...

 

Thoughts?

 

Thanks

Peter

 

On 8/6/2025 at 9:24 PM, JayW said:

 

With 8479 rivets, not including the protruding head types, is your file size going to go through the roof?   

 

Hi Jay - no, these are just points for exactly that reason - the fully detailed fuselage file is 70mb whereas the 3D wing with all the rivets I did before is over 400Mb and slows everything down. They use the lines and datapoints to generate panel line and rivet recesses when they get the 'lightweight' file