mozart Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 Love it Dennis, thanks for the inspiration. dennismcc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 1 hour ago, thierry laurent said: Hi Max! I love that kit as well. However, one recommendation from me: if you still have some available pounds, get new wheels from Baraccuda... They are FAR better! The rockets are still available from MDC but Special hobby also released some plastic ones (used for the Tempest). Cheers Thierry Finding Barracuda wheels is another issue though Thierry! I’ve no idea what’s going on at Hannants, search engine timed out twice, postage from Barracuda is crazy, some possibly from China (!). Just keep watching I guess. thierry laurent and Christa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 8 minutes ago, mozart said: Finding Barracuda wheels is another issue though Thierry! I’ve no idea what’s going on at Hannants, search engine timed out twice, postage from Barracuda is crazy, some possibly from China (!). Just keep watching I guess. I had that problem with Hannants yesterday, page eventually loaded late in the evening, taking a while just now, using my phone, they have nine sets of wheels in stock. thierry laurent, GeeBee, mozart and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 I'd really love to see an LSP car door Tiffie in a new tool form someday. R Palimaka, Pavel Vacek, mozart and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 (edited) 2 hours ago, Kagemusha said: I had that problem with Hannants yesterday, page eventually loaded late in the evening, taking a while just now, using my phone, they have nine sets of wheels in stock. I finally got there also using my phone Andy but helpful “H” flagged up that I had already bought some…..and sure enough there they were in my unfinished Revell car-door Typhoon! If I do ever finish it I’ll use the kit, or MDC wheels! Win - win! Oh, and I also have a Squadron bubble-style vac canopy too that I bought years ago! I was delighted to read on the instructions that the kit was mastered by Brian Fawcett, who of course also did the Hurricane corrections (dog kennel, nose and lower wing centre section) that I've used on my PCM build. Edited January 16 by mozart thierry laurent, Rick Griewski, R Palimaka and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warbird Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 On 1/13/2024 at 9:04 AM, mozart said: This iconic aeroplane is very poorly represented in our scale, but why? Bob at MDC produced his excellent resin one (I had one but stupidly sold it…why???) and then there’s the ancient (1973!) Revell car-door version which I have partially built but apparently is now as rare as hen’s teeth! A pretty big gap here for a kit that would have quite a large market methinks! The pilot of the current book I’m reading: flew Typhoons with 184 Squadron in the latter years of the war but the number of engine failures that he records in frightening, not to mention the vulnerability of the air intake and cooling system. Pilots were being sent on highly dangerous shipping and ground attack operations where 20mm flak from Vierling cannons took a huge toll, in, it seems, flawed aircraft! A Typhoon being re-armed at Warmwell: Back in 1994, I recorded an interview of SL Stevenson for a highschool history work (he was living in Switzerland). We made the interview at his place around a cup of tea (or course!). He spoke french with a very strong british accent - not many in the classroom could understand him. Nice memories! Tristan mozart, GeeBee, MikeC and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 2 minutes ago, Warbird said: Back in 1994, I recorded an interview of SL Stevenson for a highschool history work (he was living in Switzerland). We made the interview at his place around a cup of tea (or course!). He spoke french with a very strong british accent - not many in the classroom could understand him. Nice memories! Tristan You lucky man Tristan! Derek (Steve) Stevenson comes over in a very self-effacing way in his book, I’d have loved to have had a chance to speak to him. “Six Crashes Later” (not a great title in my opinion) ranks alongside Geoffrey Wellum’s “First Light” and Paul Richey’s “Fighter Pilot” as an accurate recount of the life of a WW2 fighter pilot. CharmyDown and Kagemusha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthebiff Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 The Squadron canopy is excellent Max and well worth it. Also the Barracudacast seat is excellent and a step up as well as CMK Tempest exhausts which fit very nicely as well Regards. Andy Kagemusha, mozart, CRAZY IVAN5 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 Cheers Andy, good to know. I think the seat in my Revell Tiffie is a Barracuda one, will check it out later, but also good to know about the exhausts. Out2gtcha and Rick Griewski 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigC Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 looking forward to following your build Max. I have one too in the stash. Still working on my skills to do it justice. If you want a bubble top there is no other option. HELLO Kotare !! mozart and Out2gtcha 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee White Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 If I could ever find the markings info, I’d love to do Sydney Pigden’s Typhoon, he seems to have been one helluva nice guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Oh my. I found My MDC kit. It was lost in the “auxiliary” stash. I thought I sold it. So I cleaned it up and I am lucky. No warped parts casting seems to be perfect. Maybe early run off of a set of tooling. I maybe going for the Normandy invasion GB. I need to do a bit of research about August 1944 timeframe. back to Max’s thread. coogrfan, mozart and Kagemusha 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 7 minutes ago, Rick Griewski said: Oh my. I found My MDC kit. It was lost in the “auxiliary” stash. I thought I sold it. So I cleaned it up and I am lucky. No warped parts casting seems to be perfect. Maybe early run off of a set of tooling. I maybe going for the Normandy invasion GB. I need to do a bit of research about August 1944 timeframe. back to Max’s thread. That’s brilliant news Rick! For D-Day and post time frame, check out p82 to 85 here, Boxart Den. Rick Griewski 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 (edited) 1 hour ago, Lee White said: If I could ever find the markings info, I’d love to do Sydney Pigden’s Typhoon, he seems to have been one helluva nice guy. He was with 164 Squadron Lee, here's a selection of the Tiffie's he flew in October 1944: and the fate of one of them 2 months later, MN237, which has squadron codes of FJ-F. He, as a Warrant Officer wasn't senior enough to have his "own" plane. There you go Lee....model on...... The Typhoon at the bottom is most likely to be closest to the scheme applicable in October 44. Edited January 18 by mozart Kagemusha, Lee White, Christa and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 This thread has got me to check up on my Typhoons and Tempests, I found my Revell kit and the Paragon bubble conversion and I have another PCM Tempest and an SH Tempest. But I only had one Squadron Typhoon/Tempest canopy so I checked the stock at Hannant and elsewhere but could not find any, so I put 2 on my backorder at Hannants. Today got an e mail from Hannants saying that they were back in stock, so have put my order in. I noticed that the canopy in the Paragon bubble conversion one was yellow so that is now sorted. I used one on my MDC Typhoon and it worked out great much better than the one with the kit so having a spares will be nice. Cheers Dennis mozart and Rick Griewski 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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