Deanflyer Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 Hello all. Now the February edition of AMW has finished selling, I can show you some shots of my Revell 1/32 Tempest built for that publication. It was a struggle of a kit, very little fitting properly, and made more awkward by the editor's instruction to include the exposed fuel/oil tanks ahead of the cockpit. That took a lot more surgery than you'd believe! Lots of resin and photoetched bits went into this, and the final result was done up as a 501 Squadron machine, which was my Dad's old unit. So, here is G for Gordon: Onwards and upwards, Dean 43 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinnerboy Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 luvly, hats off sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullac2001 Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 Excellent work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilj Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 beautiful job - you captured the stance of that bad assed plane just right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan P Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Lovely build Dean 👏👏👏 I thought the kit fit together very well, shows what kind of clunkers I must have been building beforehand 😂 Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maginot Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Good job. Very effective pics on the airfield. I wonder why the editor only went for the exposed oil and fuel tank? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochen Barett Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 + bonus points for the photography! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellsprop Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 I haven't seen an old school paint job like that in a magazine for ages. It fair takes me back. 🙂 Does the kit go together well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanflyer Posted February 12, 2022 Author Share Posted February 12, 2022 On 2/11/2022 at 7:38 AM, Alan P said: Lovely build Dean 👏👏👏 I thought the kit fit together very well, shows what kind of clunkers I must have been building beforehand 😂 Alan I thought it was a struggle. The wheel wells pushed the fuselage out too far and gave the wings anhedral unless corrected. The wing was supposed to be interchangeable between marks, so had a lot of ill fitting panels to be added- there were four of these, for instance: 17 hours ago, Bertie Psmith said: I haven't seen an old school paint job like that in a magazine for ages. It fair takes me back. 🙂 Does the kit go together well? Pip pip, Bertie old cork...see the answer above. 23 hours ago, Jochen Barett said: + bonus points for the photography! Thanks, I do try to make the effort... 🙂 On 2/11/2022 at 10:03 AM, Maginot said: Good job. Very effective pics on the airfield. I wonder why the editor only went for the exposed oil and fuel tank? Apparently the exposed tanks were supposed to be used in conjunction with the exposed engine set. The editor told me that they had the resin engine in the office somewhere, but couldn't find it until after I'd built the model without it... To everyone else who commented, thanks folks. 🙂 Dean 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRMRL Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 That's superb, with the first few pictures I almost thought "where's the models then" very effective. Great finish as well, especially if the kit was troublesome, you wouldn't know it from the finished article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 Big and beautiful Dean,great job all round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spitfire Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 Nice result, one of my all time favourite subjects and that looks just the job, I do have the SH one in the stash and will build it one day, at the moment my recently built PCM Tempest will have to fill the gap in the display cabinet. Cheers Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robgizlu Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 Beautiful build Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Dyck Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 It looks very nice! And I love your photography! Best regards Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Superb work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanflyer Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 Thanks for the further comments folks... Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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