Airfix Typhoon –part 4 – Tiffie finally finished. Phew.

A burst of activity early last week led to the completion of the Typhoon.  The colour scheme was sufficiently striking that I have gone for a ‘clean’ look and not bothered with any weathering.  Red spinner aside (it should really be black…) the model is finished as one of three Typhoons which was tested in North Africa by 451 Squadron RAAF.  The roundels and tail flashes are from the kit, while the serial (EJ906) was pieced together from three different sheets in the decal box.  See more at http://adf-serials.com/research/Typhoon.pdf and http://www.cbrnp.com/profiles/quarter2/typhoons-1.htm

My model features a number of glaring errors, including the tailwheel (it should be recessed) and the bomb racks (not as far as I can tell fitted to the RAAF Tiffies), but despite having committed such heinous crimes against modelling accuracy I’m still able to sleep at night.

I really rather enjoyed trying to complete this kit to an decent standard so I may well tackle another model in this scale soon.  After I sort out the 25mm Sassanid army I picked up at Triples.  And the FLW British.  And refurb the 1/1200 fleet.  And…..well you get the idea.