1/48 Hasegawa Typhoon Mk. 1B

Gallery Article by Andy Stark on Sept 27 2003

 

This is my first submission to ARC. I found this page by accident six months ago and have been hooked ever since. This Typhoon was built using many of the tips found on this site. This kit went together very well except the previously noted cockpit area. Even the cockpit was not a big deal. I built the kit mostly straight out of the box except for the addition of an Eduard seatbelt kit. I also scratch built my own gun site.

 

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I primed the model in Testors silver enamel. I then used Poly Scale water base paints as a top coat. I created the camouflage by blowing up the directions until they were the same size as the model. I then cut out the patterns and wet the paper until it stuck to the model. I then carefully painted along the lines. This technique works really well. I have to do it because tape would pull the Poly Scale off of the Testors silver.

I applied the decals using Future. I did not do an overall gloss coat of anything. I was afraid that it would make the paint look to thick later. I just dipped the decals in Future, then dabbed off the excess. I am amazed at how tight it pulled the decals down to the surface of the model. Once the Future had dried for a couple of days I put on a very thin coat Poly Scale semi gloss.

I weathered the model by lightly spraying panel with grey and white paint. I used index cards to create panel lines. Then I used very thin black and brown enamel in the panel lines. I used pastels to add exhaust and gun flash marks. The final weathering touch was done by chipping the Poly Scale paint off of the Testors silver. This is very easy to do because the Poly Scale does not stick well at all to the Testors paint.

 The only thing I am not happy with is the guns. I don't like the kits late model faired guns so I installed the earl model guns until I find or make something better.

Thanks for the great site.

Andy Stark

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