1/32 Special Hobby Hawker Tempest Mk V

[speedgraflex]

Wonderful! I’m going to ask for help with scratches on mine, if I may?

[Stikpusher]

If your repair doesn’t work on the broken rail, that part looks very easy to replace with some Evergreen U channel styrene.

[jkim]

Wonderful! I’m going to ask for help with scratches on mine, if I may?

Of course! Although you probably have more Tempest references than I! FYI, there is another gentlemen over at LSP that is currently building the PCM Tempest kit so that might be worth checking out. One of the comments referred to the following online reference...

https://www.hawkertempest.se/index.php/ ... alkarounds

If your repair doesn’t work on the broken rail, that part looks very easy to replace with some Evergreen U channel styrene.

I was thinking that I could bend some brass sheeting but the U-channel sounds much easier. I'll keep that in mind if the repair doesn't work. I'm amazed at how strong the glue bond on the kit plastic is using Tamiya Extra Thin... it really seems to weld the plastic together.

[speedgraflex]

I’m thinking I could loan you the Valiant Wings book or take relevant photos. I’m not sure if you need the reference as much as I do, actually!

[jkim]

Thanks Bruce! Since the Special Hobby kit looks to be fairly complete, I don't think I'll need the book. I found some pretty nice pics of the engine...

[jeaton01]

Whenever I see the Sabre I wonder how they ever expected such a complex thing to work.

[speedgraflex]

[mustang1989]

I’m thinking I could loan you the Valiant Wings book or take relevant photos. I’m not sure if you need the reference as much as I do, actually!

Thanks Bruce! Since the Special Hobby kit looks to be fairly complete, I don't think I'll need the book. I found some pretty nice pics of the engine...

Dude....If you pull that off....I'm gonna throw in the flippin' towel.

Riveting work looks great btw.

[jkim]

Cute video, Bruce! Very nice build too... much better than the talking face videos that a lot of modelers do.

Dude....If you pull that off....I'm gonna throw in the flippin' towel.

Riveting work looks great btw.

The scary thing is that MOST of it is already there in resin!



Inching along here on this build. My two daughters are on visit so I've been trying to spend as much free time with them.

Like I said, the Special Hobby plastic, which is a bit on the soft side, takes REALLY well to Tamiya Extra Thin cement. Hard to tell which is the repaired rail (bottom) and the unbroken one. Strong bond too. I think these will actually facilitate the sliding of the canopy open and closed so they will have to be glued in very securely.


The instrument panel is crisply molded but the detail is a bit simplistic. The bar on the left of the instrument panel middle section was broken too and repaired with the magic welding glue. I don't have my RAF paints yet so I've had to hold off on any painting.


Which works out because the cockpit parts need a ton of clean up. Here are the right and left tubular cockpit frames.


Another view reveals the very defined molding ridges along every surface. And giant sprue gates, which are a pain to trim when they are on curved surface.


Clean up was slow and tedious, first scraping an x-acto blade along the molding ridges and then finishing off the upper surfaces with sandpaper. The lower surfaces were just treated with the knife since they will be hidden from view looking down into the cockpit.


Resin clean up can also be similarly tedious. The flash on the inside of the spade grip is quite thick and cannot simply be snapped out. It requires very careful cutting.

[jkim]

I managed to cut the excess resin from the interior of the grip without a mishap. But one of the four very delicate mounts for the control rods was broken. I had no choice but to cut off the bottom two mounts and replace them with simple holes at the base.


Here is the completed control stick. I used 0.3mm brass tubing for the control rods. There were also a few small PE bits added to stick.


Look what came in the mail!