1/48 Hawker Tempest V
Discussion
I decided the undercarriage legs were a bit vague looking. I looked online to see about getting metal replacements, but to be honest they just looked a bit roughly cast and still vague.
I was thinking it was really just the damper strut that looked a bit ill defined, so I cut it out.
Then I realised whilst looking at photographs that the parallel motion links were a bit, well, vague too, so I did a little carving of the kit items to give an impressionist representation of what they look like from a distance if you squint a bit, and then thought I'd have a crack at representing the hinge pins so I drilled them out (whilst also drilling in through the bottom link from below)
Some sprue was stretched and stuck in the holes (the damper strut has since been sliced off where it protudes in this photograph having dried sufficiently)
I'm pretty shattered after a very busy week of day-jobbing so the rest of the Tempest has had a flat clear coat, the nav lights painted on using Duncan's old technique, the exhausts (re)painted and a few touchups around wheel wells and stuff. That'll do for tonight.
I was thinking it was really just the damper strut that looked a bit ill defined, so I cut it out.
Then I realised whilst looking at photographs that the parallel motion links were a bit, well, vague too, so I did a little carving of the kit items to give an impressionist representation of what they look like from a distance if you squint a bit, and then thought I'd have a crack at representing the hinge pins so I drilled them out (whilst also drilling in through the bottom link from below)
Some sprue was stretched and stuck in the holes (the damper strut has since been sliced off where it protudes in this photograph having dried sufficiently)
I'm pretty shattered after a very busy week of day-jobbing so the rest of the Tempest has had a flat clear coat, the nav lights painted on using Duncan's old technique, the exhausts (re)painted and a few touchups around wheel wells and stuff. That'll do for tonight.
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