Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: KiwiZac on November 19, 2019, 08:06:39 PM
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Hi all,
Currently there are two* airworthy Hawker Typhoon restoration projects underway, one in Canada (https://www.typhoonlegacy.com/) and one in the UK (https://hawkertyphoon.com/).
RB396 is being worked on by Airframe Assemblies and ARCo in England and is hoped to be flying by 2024. The aircraft is a combat veteran and will be the star of many an airshow but that's in the future, and we don't even yet know what colours she will wear. But, using Neil Hipkiss' painting Warbird RB396 (https://hawkertyphoon.com/webshop/?product=warbird-rb396-neil-hipkiss) as a reference, I've built my interpretation of what G-TIFY - the UK civil registration reserved for '396 - might look like on the Duxford flightline.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49087523938_9309c69cf6_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hMGoFC)Airfix 1/72 RB396 (https://flic.kr/p/2hMGoFC) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49088245827_3d5ef8391f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hML6gZ)Airfix 1/72 RB396 (https://flic.kr/p/2hML6gZ) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49088245857_392583de81_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hML6hv)Airfix 1/72 RB396 (https://flic.kr/p/2hML6hv) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49087523888_efb4019328_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hMGoEL)Airfix 1/72 RB396 (https://flic.kr/p/2hMGoEL) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49088245627_37be375236_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hML6dx)Airfix 1/72 RB396 (https://flic.kr/p/2hML6dx) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
This is the lovely recent Airfix kit - have I mentioned I love New Airfix? - with the XP-W codes cobbled together from the kit and part of the serial from my spares. I handpainted the Sheila noseart and would have posted the build two weeks ago, but I somehow lost one of the eight RP rails. Fortunately Airfix's spares department sent me a replacement (along with all seven of its brothers...) at no charge so she was finished today.
*OF COURSE I want to build JP843, the Canadian project, I just don't have another kit lying around. But if someone happened to have a spare Airfix A02041A and were feeling generous... :angel:
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Nice one, Zac.
Brian da Basher
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Oh, that is nice :smiley: Are you going to do JP843 as well, 'zac ?
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Thank you, gents!
Are you going to do JP843 as well, 'zac ?
;)
*OF COURSE I want to build JP843, the Canadian project, I just don't have another kit lying around. But if someone happened to have a spare Airfix A02041A and were feeling generous... :angel:
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*OF COURSE I want to build JP843, the Canadian project, I just don't have another kit lying around. But if someone happened to have a spare Airfix A02041A and were feeling generous... :angel:
I can help you out here Zac. I burnt off my last pair of "wings" when the driver in-front of me was driving at 80 KM/h on a 100 KM/h highway. The things I said to him about his parents and ancestors .... >:D
PM me your address please.
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Good on ya Carl :smiley: Looking forward to this :D