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’. 
 

13 comments:

Rodger said...

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

Tim Gow said...

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

Paul said...

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

It will certainly look special in the desert scheme.

Conrad Kinch said...

This aeroplane nonsense will never catch on.

Dan said...

Interesting choice of colours, it will look pretty cool.

Tim Gow said...

Paul
You know me Paul - daring to be different!

Tim Gow said...

Conrad Kinch
Think of it as a momentary lapse.

Tim Gow said...

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

AlFront said...

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

Tim Gow said...

AlFront
Surely Stakhanov would be building Yaks or Sturmoviks?

Wg Cdr Luddite said...

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

Tim Gow said...

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.

Nick Grant said...

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

Nick