Tag: Hawker Tempest

• Hawker Tempest V – Part Three – The Buster Built

  

  Five cold and wet days in Perth saw the roses in the front garden blown down, the cat reduced to tears, and the Hawker Tempest V completed. It started out as a vehicle for experiment and in the end has proven its worth. The thing is garish, and deliberately so. After WW2 the Tempest was…

  Dick Stein

  November 9, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Hawker Tempest, paint, varnish

• Hawker Tempest – Part Two – It Might Just As Well…

  

  It might just as well be a Buster…and it might just as well be a Hobby Boss kit rather than an Academy product. The building experience has been just as rapid. I washed the sprue trees for this Tempest at about 12:30 – the basic airframe enclosing a painted cockpit was ready for the photo…

  Dick Stein

  November 9, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, workflow

  Hawker Tempest, kit fit, workflow

• Hawker Tempest V – Part One – The Elegant Buster

  

  Fired with enthusiasm for a new technique, I set out in quest of a Buster – a kit cheap enough to act as sacrificial styrene so that I could see in 3D what I had just ben trying on scraps of wood. The trip to Hobbytech is always fun, but it is always anguishing as…

  Dick Stein

  November 8, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Academy kit, Buster, Hawker Tempest, paint trials