Hawker Typhoon Riverts

[Geoff Williams]

Hello Chaps.

I am in the final stages of completing the Airfix 1/24 scale Hawker Typhoon IB. I have decided on the 247 Squadron, 124 Wing of 2nd TAF.
Flown by Squadron Leader Basil Gerald 'Stapme' Stapleton from Eindhoven in December 1944. Currently I am working on the tail plane control surfaces and have a problem with size of the raised rivet heads - they look too big. So I want to sand the surfaces clean and then replace with rivet heads closer to scale. I have thought about decals from HGW or Red Fox (do they make them?) or maybe making my own?? What would you advise? Very interested in your thoughts.

With regards

Geoff Williams

 

 

[dov]

On all my photos of flying aircraft from 2000 to 2010 I checked the Tempest (stationary in Hendon & Duxford) , Sea Furry and Hurricane and some others. No one had rivets on the control surfaces.

Tail control surfaces of the Sea Furry are smooth

Tail control surfaces of the Tempest are smooth

Tail control surfaces of the Hurricane are smooth

Even je rivet queen the Avanger in the FAA museum is quite smooth!

I know it from riveting on a real Trojan, that rivets are almost 1 mm out of surface. If you want it in scale: Consider in 1/24 0,1mm on the model is 2,4 mm in reality. In 1/48 4,8 mm in reality.

This is a special point of interest, but does seldom meet reality.

In AFV tanks, yes here it is necessary on a Lee or Grant!

Save energy, safe your pocket.

Happy modelling

 

[JasonC]

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[Bozothenutter]

The generic HGW sets might have what you need, just have to find the right spacing. (They do silver ones as well)