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All this buzz nowadays with magnificent Tempests, amazing Tiffys in the small scale and general Hawker appreciation I felt that I needed to join the fray. I got one of these way back when. It was started at least 4 years ago with what at the time was my first resin cockpit, but has laid dormant for at least 3 years. The last outing was this family shoot with it's Airfix brothers I was staring at my second Airfix 1/72 Tiffy with the plan to do a RCAF Bomb-phoon as a quickish build when I heard whispers from another box in the stash. "what about me? I'm I not good enough anymore?" That Siren call was too hard to pass up on, so there was only one thing that I could do (was ding-a-ding-ding my dang-a-long ling-long as Ministry tells you to) Right. I'm planning to do one of the three desert test machines that Churchill himself ordered to be sent down to Egypt for trails. The Tiffys were of the early Car-door type, adorned with the glorious desert paint scheme that looks so good, tropical air intake and uncovered guns. The last thing is a wee bit like Magnum P.I I reckon, or what to do say @Procopius A suitable set of decals have been procured which also includes a tropical air filter. During the years I've had the good idea to add more stuff to a stalled build in order to get in done. I'm sure it's a terrific idea What's actually been done so far? Ah yes, Aires gun bays. I've added a gun heating pipe, and painted it brown according to what I knew at that time, but nowadays I think it should be aluminium through and through. I also need to add a few shims to the side, and prepare for the installation of Masters excellent turned Hispanos. Inserts for the car-door version was a bit of a pig, so here I need to make a few new panel lines :shudder: The Aires Cockpit seems to be almost finished, except for a trim wheel that is MIA. I should still have the Hasegawa plastic somewhere, so that will be used instead. Here's hoping that the Cockpit was painted interior green and black, and not aluminium and black... On with the show!
