1/48 Revell Eurofighter Typhoon

Gallery Article by Burt Gustafson on Feb 3 2011

 

For your viewing pleasure, here are some photos of my Revell 1/48 scale Eurofighter Typhoon. The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine, canard-delta wing, multirole aircraft, designed and built by a consortium of three companies: Alenia Aeronautica, BAE Systems, and EADS. The aircraft is in the services of the British Royal Air Force, the German Luftwaffe, the Italian Air Force, the Spanish Air Force and the Austrian Air Force.

Powered by two Eurojet EJ200 afterburning turbofans, the Eurofighter has a maximum speed of Mach 2.0 and can supercruise at up to Mach 1.5 without using the afterburners. With a maximum range of 3,790km (2,045nm) the Eurofighter can carry a typical payload of two laser-guided bombs, four beyond visual-range air-to-air missiles, four short-range air-to-air missiles, two standoff-range weapons, and an internally-housed 27mm cannon.

Construction
This was an out of the box build and the Revell Germany Eurofighter kit comes in a big box jammed with parts—somewhat daunting at first. Fortunately not all the parts are used; many are for weapons I didn’t use. Surface detail of the parts is good. Construction of this kit was lengthy, complex, and the fit of the parts was not all that great, especially for the fuselage assembly. I spent a lot of time filling and sanding to eliminate the gaps and mismatches. Some of the assembly drawings are unclear which required searching the web for photos of certain assemblies.

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Painting
The Revell Eurofighter Typhoon kit provides painting instructions for RAF, German, Austrian, Italian, and Spanish aircraft, all of which are fairly sparse. I decided to paint my Eurofighter in the colors of the German Luftwaffe. After researching the web for the correct colors, I decided on Model Masters enamel Dark Ghost Gray and Camouflage Gray. The landing gears and wheel wells were airbrushed with Floquil Reefer White. The missiles were painted with Light Ghost Gray and Reefer White.

Decals
On decaling the EuroFighter, I encountered something I have never come across before; the decal numbers on the extensive decal sheet did not match the decal numbers on the painting and decal instruction pages. I chose to use the decals for Eurofighter Typhoon, Jagdgeschwader 73, “Steinhoff”, Laage-Rostock Germany 2005. Fortunately I found many photos on the web that showed where most of the decals and stencils go. The decals themselves were thick and had a tendency to silver even with several applications of decal setting solution.

Comments
Decal trouble, fit issues, and instruction errors aside, the finished Revell Eurofighter Typhoon looks pretty neat.

Burt Gustafson

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Photos and text © by Burt Gustafson