shadowmare Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Hi all, I started Special Hobby High Tech 2 kit Tempest MK V. Its a mix of nicely done details, not worse from mainstream kits with old-time imperfections bonded with their earlier short runs - for example cockpit collides with wheel bays, wheel bays with wing halves, gaps between fuselage and wings. I will skip adding engine, its a petty but this requires cutting and trimming plastic, lot of work basically. I found this scheme of Tempest from first years after war when RAF stationed in Germany. Fortunately Montex was producing mask for PCM containing W2-Y. Some details like bell and question mark was not provided. I will add Eduard PE with IP and some cockpit details. This is my idea on spinner correction, I glued plastic "core" from old droptank then poured few layers of two-component epoxy glue. When it cured I sanded and used Tamiya (thicker) and Gunze (thinner Surfacer 1200) for correcting small imperfections. Cockpit ready for paint, rear "wall" needs to be sanded to not expand fuselage. HB252, Shoggz, Uncarina and 21 others 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PEYSSON Gilles Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Good evening I like the Tempest ! Very nice cockpit waiting the paint ! Gilles shadowmare 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 A really bright way of correcting the spinner…..sheer genius, and it works well! shadowmare 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles87 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 I started on the cockpit of mine a while ago but haven’t got any further so I’ll watch yours instead. John shadowmare 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowmare Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 Next steps, some parts are real deal to be fitted corectly, extensive filling and sanding needed. Borsos, Landrotten Highlander, denders and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil88 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 I like this plane, i will follow you. Good start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Great start and a superb subject, I'm pretty fond of the Typhoon/Tempest family. Cheers Dennis mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 13 hours ago, dennismcc said: Great start and a superb subject, I'm pretty fond of the Typhoon/Tempest family. Cheers Dennis Let’s make that a Hurricane/Typhoon/Tempest family and I’d agree with you Dennis! Those fit issues don’t give me any confidence in doing the SH kit though, pretty poor show I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles87 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 A possible solution to the underside wing/ fuselage would be to score across the inside of the wings just in front of the lamp recess then glue that section with tube glue and wrap it tightly with rubber bands. I haven’t tried it on the thicker plastic of a 1/32 kit but it’s worked worked for me on 1/48 in the past. Good luck. John mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowmare Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 Cockpit finished, resin seat and HGW seatbelts from the box. I added Eduard instrument panel. 12 hours ago, Biggles87 said: A possible solution to the underside wing/ fuselage would be to score across the inside of the wings just in front of the lamp recess then glue that section with tube glue and wrap it tightly with rubber bands. I haven’t tried it on the thicker plastic of a 1/32 kit but it’s worked worked for me on 1/48 in the past. Good luck. John Thank you John, I decided to bend underside fuselage part to met with fuselage halves. Troy Molitor, Dragon, TankBuster and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowmare Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 Progress - fuselage closed. I always check correct wings lift, in kit fuselage pushes them so they're facing down too much. Maybe that's not perfect comparison but it is some reference. This gap needs to be filled, it was not existant on real plane: gap behind engine cover, i filled it with CA glue then cleaned with Debonder - CA remover. to be continued... denders, TankBuster, Victor K2 and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowmare Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 Painting stage, all of "decorations" painted using mask or handpainted like bell-emblem on tail (not perfect but had no decals unfortunately). Im not a fan of black-basing rather like to brighten surface using surfacer as a base, then I modulated primary colors making efects of worn metal surface. I will use decal roundels i'm not patient enought to mask them :). Anthony in NZ, Landrotten Highlander, Troy Molitor and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampenfest Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Looking good, great paintwork! Cheers! shadowmare 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Nice! shadowmare 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 I like it shadowmare 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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