GB Chat thread - Hawker Tempest

[Yertis]

DieselGriff said:

Yertis said:

I think it's absolutely OK to build a Typhoon – whats 21" and a laminar flow wing between friends?

If we were building a Spitfire, there would be a lot more difference between a Spitfire Mk5 and a Spitfire 24 than there is between a Typhoon and a Tempest.

I don't think you've been trying hard enough

There are currently 19 suitable kits on evilbay, 14 of which are advertised by "Top rated sellers"

Don't look at me, I've got my Academy Tempest alongside me here!

I was just offering sympathetic words to other less motivated souls. By the way, if Typhoons are permitted, they should be built as part of this GB, not "oh well if Typhoons are included here's one I knocked up earlier".

[DieselGriff]

Sorry Yertis but some oddness is occurring with quotes! Curry Burns had posted the last post when I quoted him and then did the check on ebay to get numbers - When I first quoted him you hadn't even posted!

[perdu]

I am building a Tiffie but I wouldn't want to add it to the GB

If we said that Typhoon was just another version of the later Tempest, we could then say that the Sea Fury is just as much the same and have to allow it. [guess what is in my spare room too?]

I will post a build thread at the exhortations of my friends dr_gn and Eric, but I hope there's not going to be any complaining if I do.

My model is not being built under the time restraints and such of the GB, (it didn't ought to be 'cos I started last Wednesday before the GB began) and may take nearly forever.

('spect I would have voted for the dear old Shagbat or suggested the Lysander, cos dad worked on these back in '40. But I didnt vote. If building my Tiffie works out nicely I would consider joining the next GB, let's see shall we?)

[pacman1]

Careful with those modelling knives chaps!
http://dudelol.com/airfix-yeah-right-itll-look-jus...

[Curry Burns]

ok i won't enter the GB this time, but will do a build thread cos I've already got the kit.

I'll join in properly next time.

[kenny Chim 4]

I'm entering this contest despite having neither constructed nor painted a model aircraft before.
Today I bought this: http://www.magictoybox-online.co.uk/acatalog/info%... and, much as it doesn't have the detail or sharpness of the Academy or Airfix versions, I relish the challenge. For the record, I won't be using an airbrush but may add a few figures.

I do appreciate the time scale for this GB though- especially as I start a new job on the 20th and free time may be tight thereafter.

I wish all contributers the best..

[Eric Mc]

Kenny - that is the same model as the Airfix one. The moulds were originally made by Heller in France and the model has appeared under the Heller, Airfix and Smer labels.

[kenny Chim 4]

Eric, forgive my ignorance but is that good or bad?
Have I bought a lemon?

[perdu]

it is a very good model to use for this Kenny

have fun

at the end of the day, it's only a game

[kenny Chim 4]

Thanks for your assurance Perdu.

Are you participating? I do hope so. My field tends to be figures/busts and your speciality is representing beautiful miniature barges but, hey, give this a try.

[perdu]

Hi Kenny

My real speciality is "ex-modeller" with an open list of made models from the seventies and eighties, you might have seen before there's a couple of mine at Cosford too.

Not doing this build, having fun working a Frog Typhoon into a decent shape. It is a good basic kit but nowhere near as good as your Smer/Heller/Airfix Tempest.

If you take note of the postings that your fellow participants put up here and work round its idiosynchracies (don't worry ALL kits have those!) you can have fun. This GB looks like a good place to be developing an enjoyment of the aircraft side of the hobby.

Mind you, thanks for the kind words for the narrow boat. I really must de-dust that poor old thing some day...

edited to stop looking like a patronising tit, which wasn't intended

Edited by perdu on Saturday 15th January 22:59

[kenny Chim 4]

I'm sorry Perdu, but that is not good enough. "Ex modeler" indeed! In my mind there is no such thing!

I loved those shots of that narrow boat but I was more drawn to the scenery surrounding it- which was very well rendered.

[Eric Mc]

As Perdu has said, the Airfix Tempest is a nice little kit. Heller kits from the mid to late 70s were very nice indeed. I've recently built a Fieseler 103 Reichenberg and Bachem Natter from that era and they were both rather nice. Their main drawback (if you consider it a drawback) is that the panels are represented by raised lines rather than recessed lines. Raised lines were the norm up until the early 1990s on most models (with some exceptions).

I'm looking forward to starting mine in a couple of weeks - hopefully sooner.

[Curry Burns]

Well my Typhoon is built, not to the standard that some of the Tenpests will be built to, but it's looking neat to me.

Started painting the underneath, will get some pics in here at some point.

[Ayahuasca]

Gentlemen, let's be having some pics please!

[dr_gn]

Ayahuasca said:

Gentlemen, let's be having some pics please!

Not much to see from me so far:

[perdu]

Aha

paint, I see paint

(I really must get one of they posh cutting boards, been relying for years on an old kitchen worksurface in my workroom...)

4 inches

the standard length of a yellow tip on propellors (one of those oft remembered, frequently wrong factoids that lurk unwanted in the old bonce)

Yours looks pretty good doc

[Shar2]

These have been posted on my build thread as well, just shocked at the amount of resin I had to remove to get the wings to fit.

[dr_gn]

perdu said:

Aha

paint, I see paint

(I really must get one of they posh cutting boards, been relying for years on an old kitchen worksurface in my workroom...)

4 inches

the standard length of a yellow tip on propellors (one of those oft remembered, frequently wrong factoids that lurk unwanted in the old bonce)

Yours looks pretty good doc

If you get a cutting board, get the biggest you can. I got an A4 one and it was too small - you really want a size you can cover your entire modelling area with. I got an A2 one at the weekend and it's much better.

[Eric Mc]

They are usually cheaper in stationery shops than in model shops too - loathe though I am to point this out.