Tag: kit fit

• 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 Sea Fury – Part Two – Hours Of Building

  

  About two, as it happened. And part of the time was spent making beef pies in the kitchen. This aircraft kit is a fair way shy of the 1000-piece puzzle… But the pieces that do exist are rewarding. Well-shaped, and with few flaws. The wings and fuselage went together with the kind of precision that…

  Dick Stein

  June 25, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  Airfix mould, engraved panel lines, Hawker Sea Fury, kit fit