Typhoon ZY-Y

My second Tiffy! This time with all covers closed. It saves a lot of time, because Airfix indicated which parts not to use for this model. 

It even strikes me more this second time to see how perfect the model is. You could fit many parts without glue! 

The cockpit under construction. 

The seat in place. 

The first time ever I painted a pilot! My wife painted the other pilots for the big kits and I didn't like to paint figures. But now I've got some for the Mosquito to paint. 

The pilot in command. 

The cockpit with wing spars 

The wings beginning to take shape 

Guns in place 

Wingtips added 

Wings are ready 

The cowlings in place 

The beautiful nose: just a little filling needed 

A four bladed prop with red spinner this time. 

My first attemp at preshading. Don't know if it works. 

I used the metal rockets from Master. 

The rockets are very good, including the pigtails 

Lots of perfectly fitting pieces make eight nice rockets 

The decals were a bit of a problem. Very thin an difficult to apply. Fortunately Master was kind enough to send me two sparesets of decals! 

Read for the second colour. Unfortunately there is not much to be seen of the preshading, still have to learn a lot. But used blue-tac and this made nice soft edges. 

Masking for the black and white stripes. I covered the whole aircraft, because somehow the paint always ends up in places where it shouldn't! I used aluminiumfoil, because this can very easily be applied, for example in the wheelwells. 

THe first colour is on, now the black. 

And the result: I was very pleased, because there was no overspray and hardly any creeping. On my previous Typhoon it took me hours to correct, but this time it was near perfect. Seems I've learned a bit. 

And now readay for glosscoat and decals. The landing gear and the flaps have been fitted, the canopy sits in placce and only some small details need to be added. 

Stateportrait of this beauty! 

Almost finished! The beautiful rockets in place and the decals and black and white stripes. 

The final result 

Pilot in command 

Brothers in arms. The colours differ a bit. The first time I picked my own Vallejo colours, the second time Vallejo issued a special RAF set and they are better 

Armed and able 

Side by side!