Tony's Christmas Treat ** Complete**

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Dirkpitt289 wrote:I had no idea it had an optional open gun bay in the wings. Now I want it more....
The open panels are also included in the kit which is nice.
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A little progress today. Got some paint on the cannon bays and glued the upper wing halves in place.

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The upper half before being glued in place.

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The bay still needs some detail paint, but its getting there.

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I hope to have it ready for paint by the start of next week.
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Nice!
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Those gun bays look good :)
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Nice one, those gun bays do look effective now they're in the wings.
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Sweet. to be honest I have never been a fan of the Typhoon but this is tempting me to get one.

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Just a little progress. got the tail glued up and masked the canopy parts. Now I just have to make it down to the hobby shop for the right color paints for the camouflage.

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The gun bays look excellent! What sort of paint are you going to get?

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AndrewR wrote:The gun bays look excellent! What sort of paint are you going to get?

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I cross referenced the Humbrol colors over to FS numbers. Most likely, it will be Model Master Acryl paints, depending on if they have what I need.
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I used to brush paint with them, until I switched to Vallejo. The RAF colours in the MM range are good matches to reality, I think and they actually call some of the paints "RAF Dark Green" etc.

The RAF Ocean Grey matches very nicely to MM Dark Grey F-15 by the way, and I think looks about right on a 1/72 scale model.

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That kit goes together really well it seems.
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That is looking well smart.
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Got some paint on the Typhoon. The Model Master RAF Green has a bit of shine to it. Gonna have to rub it down with some wet/dry sandpaper and see if it blends it in some.

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Very nice :)
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This is coming along very well Tony. Careful with the wet and dry, it has a nasty habit of quickly revealing the underlying bare plastic!
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