Thursday, 10 May 2012

Airfix Typhoon - part 2 - in the buff

The Typhoon has now seen the dangerous end of a paintbrush.  After sanding down the filler I had applied earlier, the underside got a coat of pale blue-grey.  As revealed in my earlier post, I have decided to finish this model in the colours of 451 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force based in Egypt in 1943.  The upper surfaces have now had two coats of Vallejo ‘Buff’ with a camouflage overpaint of Vallejo ‘Khaki’. 
 
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13 comments:

  1. Rodger10 May 2012 at 10:47

    I can see that this is going to look very nice.

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  2. Tim Gow10 May 2012 at 10:52

    Rodger
    Nice? Hopefully, but I'll settle for 'different'.

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  3. Paul10 May 2012 at 12:30

    Steady on Tim, this is a good late run mate.

    It will certainly look special in the desert scheme.

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  4. Conrad Kinch10 May 2012 at 13:01

    This aeroplane nonsense will never catch on.

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  5. Dan10 May 2012 at 13:01

    Interesting choice of colours, it will look pretty cool.

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  6. Tim Gow10 May 2012 at 13:53

    Paul
    You know me Paul - daring to be different!

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  7. Tim Gow10 May 2012 at 13:53

    Conrad Kinch
    Think of it as a momentary lapse.

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  8. Tim Gow10 May 2012 at 13:54

    Dan
    It's a creative way of covering up my inability to paint invasion stripes!

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  9. AlFront10 May 2012 at 14:16

    Dam' quick work! How come everyone else seems to be related to that Stakhanov bloke? Yours, a slow Hobbit.

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  10. Tim Gow10 May 2012 at 14:19

    AlFront
    Surely Stakhanov would be building Yaks or Sturmoviks?

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  11. Wg Cdr Luddite12 May 2012 at 18:03

    Sadly the tiffy never served in North Africa.

    451 Sqn's aircraft in 1943 were as follows:

    May 41 Hurricane I
    Jan 43 Hurricane IIC
    Mar 43 Spitfire VC
    Dec 43 Spitfire IX

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  12. Tim Gow12 May 2012 at 18:40

    Wg Cdr Luddite
    Apparently 451 had 3 Typhoons on strength for evaluation during the latter part of 1943. There is no record of them being used in combat.

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  13. Nick Grant13 May 2012 at 06:58

    Oh, I see why you did it now. Please ignore my previous question!

    Nick

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