Hawker Tempest Mk. V by Danstream - FINISHED - Eduard - 1:48 scale

[CDW]

On 5/20/2023 at 7:24 AM, Danstream said:

Hi Craig, I will be located at (or close to) Cape Canaveral.

 

Cheers,

Dan

Great beaches on the east coast. You will be close to Daytona Beach. If you have a chance be sure to visit Ron Jon Surf Shop. It’s an iconic shop to visit when in Daytona. Also there is the famous Daytona Speedway where the race the stock cars every year. Business trip or pleasure? Either way there be lots of interesting things to see. Not too far north of there is the oldest city, Saint Augustine. A big Spanish fort is there, a National Park.

[Danstream]

@CDW Thanks for your tips. I will be on a business trip for 15 days, so not much time to visit places. However, I should have a week-end off, in that case, I will relax and look around and surely I will consider your suggestions.

Thanks,

Dan

[Canute]

If you can, take a tour of the Cape. There is a lot going on there.

[Danstream]

Thanks for all your suggestions. One place I would like to visit is the Kennedy Space Center.

Cheers,

Dan.

[Roger Pellett]

My wife and I visited the Kennedy Space Center some 20 years ago.  I don’t know what has changed since but back then it was a wonderful visit.  The visit was based on a structured tour.  A bus took us from the visitor’s center to one of the launch vehicle assembly buildings.  Inside was a Saturn Rocket that had been painstakingly restored;  huge and impressive!  We were then shepherded into the next room that was set up with bleachers.  They reenacted an entire moon landing from conception to walking on the moon.  Even though it was simulated it was quite effective.  Much better than all of the hoopla at nearby Orlando.

 

If you have a chance to visit do so.

 

Roger

[AJohnson]

7 hours ago, Danstream said:

Thanks for all your suggestions. One place I would like to visit is the Kennedy Space Center.

Cheers,

Dan.

Yes well worth a visit, I went about ten years ago. The Space Shuttle exhibition was really good and walking along and underneath the Saturn V was awe inspiring. 👍

[Canute]

May get lucky enough to see a launch by SpaceX or one of the other commercial launch providers. I saw one last January from Cocoa Beach.

[Danstream]

Hi all,

just few pictures of the Tempest underside which I sprayed with Mr. Color 'medium sea grey' in a patchy fashion. Then I sanded all the surfaces with a wet 4000 grit pad.

I the last picture, one of the drawback of this kit is visible on the foreground aileron. In fact, the control surfaces, that are molded as thick parts, show some sink marks due to the shrinkage of the plastic. Unfortunately, I did not address these marks and I will have to live with that.

Best regards,

Dan

[CDW]

1 hour ago, Danstream said:

Hi all,

just few pictures of the Tempest underside which I sprayed with Mr. Color 'medium sea grey' in a patchy fashion. Then I sanded all the surfaces with a wet 4000 grit pad.

I the last picture, one of the drawback of this kit is visible on the foreground aileron. In fact, the control surfaces, that are molded as thick parts, show some sink marks due to the shrinkage of the plastic. Unfortunately, I did not address these marks and I will have to live with that.

Best regards,

Dan

The photos look great. I can't even see the sink marks you described so they must be very small.

[Danstream]

Hi all,

after a long interruption, I am back to my modeling bench and to this forum. My stay in Florida was quite exciting from professional point of view and also from a personal one. I enjoyed the differences between here and there, met very friendly people, had great food and had great time. I stayed there only two weeks working at Cape Canaveral and then I spent the rest of the time up to now abroad. In Florida, I could spend a complete Sunday visiting the Kennedy Space Center and I was overwhelmed by viewing the collection of hardware which made the history of space flight. 

 

I didn't have yet the opportunity to catch up with the works here, but I will do it in the next days

 

Now I am back home in the Netherlands and today, pleasantly, I resumed the work on my Tempest. I masked the lower lower surfaces and the white parts so that I could start spraying the first color of the camouflage.

I used Mr. Color 362 paint which is supposed to reproduce the RAF Ocean Grey. I diluted it to a ratio of 1 to 1.75 (paint to thinner) and spayed in many thin coats.

This time I wanted to achieve a rather uniform tonality and the paint went on flawlessly.

Now I will proceed with the green as soon as the paint had enough time to cure well.

Meantime, this guy landed on my desk for my 66th birthday:

You bet this will be soon seen here.

Best regards,

Dan

[ccoyle]

Dan, you're not helping my sales resistance. Halinski produced a card model of the Folgore in that exact same desert camo scheme. It's an older kit (2005), and I've been thinking about snapping one up before it's sold out. I just celebrated my 60th, so maybe I can justify the purchase. 😏

[Danstream]

14 hours ago, ccoyle said:

It's an older kit (2005), and I've been thinking about snapping one up before it's sold out. I just celebrated my 60th, so maybe I can justify the purchase. 😏

I would believe that the celebration of a 60th birthday with no doubt amply justifies the purchase of the kit of such spiffy and distinctive an airplane sporting that unmistakable camouflage. 😇

Catch the moment,

best regards,

Dan

 

[Landlubber Mike]

Welcome back Dan - sounds like a great trip.  Love the Tempest!  Coming along great!

 

Very nice birthday present too - I saw people were excited about this 1/32 release.  

[Danstream]

Thank you Mike for you comments and thanks for the 'like's.

 

After the Ocean Grey paint was cured, with the help of tracing paper and a double adhesive tape, I made the camouflage masks reproducing by eyeball the scheme provided in the Eduard's instructions.

It is known that RAF had a precise pattern for the camo bands and I tried to reproduce the scheme as accurately as possible. The double adhesive tape kept the masks in place fairy well, but I had to use also normal Tamiya tape and blu-tack to press down and seal the most recalcitrant spots where the masks were too stiff to comply with 3D compound surfaces.

Overall, it was not too difficult a job and I even enjoyed it. The the airframe was then ready to receive the Mr Color RAF dark green 361. The color went on flawlessly, leaving a nice satin finish. The final result, with a pile of masking material beside it:

The masks worked pretty well, with no obvious overspray.

Although I was very positive about the surface details of this kit, now I am rather dubious about the rivet rendering on the fuselage which I am afraid is a bit overstated. If I noticed it earlier I could have it sanded down, but now it is too late. I will be careful not to enhance it with the application of dark oil washes later.

I chose to spray the camouflage colors plane, with no tonal variations and I am quite pleased with the results delivered by Mr. Color paints. My intention is to apply some weathering variations later.

That's all for now,

best regards,

Dan

Edited August 24, 2023 by Danstream

[Egilman]

Looks good Brother, you going to paint the invasion stripes?

[Danstream]

10 hours ago, Egilman said:

Looks good Brother, you going to paint the invasion stripes?

Yesss! Prepared the ones on the fuselage for the black paint:

Cheers,

Dan

[Danstream]

Hi, after having masked the stripes, I sprayed the black color. Actually, it was a mix of pure black with some white to obtain a sort of off-black hue. It was sprayed in a non-uniform way to leave a blotchy appearance, although not very visible in the pictures.

Next, the yellow stripes on the leading edge of the wing will follow.

Best regards,

Dan

[Old Collingwood]

That is  looking So  good   - really nice  tidy   paintwork.

 

OC.

[Egilman]

Nice invasion stripes, clean and bright, don't dirty them too much, they weren't on long enough to get really dirty...

 

And a question? why mask off the LG bays? wouldn't it have been easier to lay the LG doors in place and paint the stripes right over them?

 

Any ways, nice work!!!

[Danstream]

@Egilman, I am not a big fun of heavy weathered aircraft models, therefore I will keep the dirt and wear constrained anyway, in addition, by coincidence, I had in mind to make this model pretty new, just with a minimum of wear to remove its toy appearance.

 

About the LG doors, good question, I don't remember exactly why, perhaps there were details and tabs which made a perfect closure difficult. Generally, if I can, I close the LG doors as you indicated for masking the wells. By the way, I have now removed the masking material and I am presently working on that area.

 

Thanks for your comments,

cheers,

Dan

[Danstream]

Hi,

I masked the yellow stripes on the leading edge and after having sealed the edges of the tapes, I sprayed a light coat of white and then several coats of yellow.

This is the result after removing the tapes which basically conclude the main painting phase of the airframe.

The edges of the yellow bands now need some light sanding to eliminate the little ridges that were formed by the many layers of paint, but this is not a problem. On the lower side, I removed the masking material from the wells and started to apply some dirt inside and some slight discoloration on the surrounding surfaces.

Thanks for following,

cheers,

Dan

 

Edited August 28, 2023 by Danstream

[king derelict]

Beautiful painting Dan. I learn a lot from following your builds

Alan

[Landlubber Mike]

Amazing paint job Dan.  Thanks for showing your step by step photos - good learning experience for me too.

 

 

[Danstream]

Hi, thanks @king derelict and @landlubber for your kind comments above.

Before tackling the finishing of the main airframe, I am tackling now the small bits.

I pre-painted with white all the details that need to be yellow, to avoid that the gray substrate make the final yellow shade to appear too cold a tint.

I also sprayed the interior of the landing gear well doors with the same color of the underside. After, I applied a clear gloss and some black liner to the doors. In the same picture, you see the landing gear struts cleaned and furnished with a brake line.

Then, I applied a very dark grey to the propeller and a black primer to the landing gear.

I used the dark grey because I want to reproduce some discoloration of the blades. For this, I sprinkled some sugar crystals on the wet blades and then I sprayed the same dark gray with some more black added to it. It is difficult to capture the result in the pictures, but, in presence, is quite subtle and nice.

Finally, these are the landing gear parts, aluminium painted, with some details picked up and with a final coat of matt transparent. 

That's all for now, thanks for keeping an eye on this build,

best regards,

Dan

Edited September 2, 2023 by Danstream

[king derelict]

Landing hear looks really nice Dan

Alan

[Danstream]

Thanks Alan, it's not hard to get the landing gears fine, in this case the kit parts helped a lot. I just finished the landing gear doors removing an annoying extractor mark, and the is how they look now under the morning light

kind regards:

Dan

 

[Danstream]

Hi, in view of the application of the decals, I sprayed a coat of gloss X-22 on everything.

For few days I was busy with the decals and with the service stencils. I find these latter really boring to apply, therefore I omitted at least those that fell within the invasion stripes. I had also few seniority moments and I misplaced the code letters on the fuselage. They couldn't slide easily, so I have to live with that.

I also started to highlight some panels and apply discolorations around the engine and ammunition panels. After the decals, I sealed everything with another coat of X-22.

It is now ready for some oil color playing. While waiting for the paint to cure, with the help of tracing paper and french curves, I drew the contours of the walkways which will be applied later.

I obtained a walkway template which I will transfer on a black painted piece of decal.

The decal will be eventually painted with a different black and will be applied after the final coat.

That is all for now, thanks for following,

Dan

[Danstream]

Thank you for all the likes!

With a bit more time in the week end, I went on with the funniest part which is the application of weathering.  I use an oil color labelled 'Ivory Black', which once diluted appears as a very dark brown. I thin it with odorless white spirit and spatter it on the parts which I want to treat.

I will limit it to the surfaces that could be likely affected by the dirt coming from the engine and to the surroundings of the LG wells, as I sow in period pictures. Once dry, I selectively removed the wash and added by brush some oil leaks and rivet trails.

The upper surfaces received the same treatment.

The good thing of the oil colors is that you can correct, remove or add them as it most pleases you. I might come back to that if I see it necessary after I let it pause for a while. Finally, I complemented the oil staining with some airbrushed black, which, in my view, is supposed to mimic the staining of the fumes coming for the engine.

The light of the desk lamps flattens the contrast, but shades are more visible in person.

I don't want to make it too dirty, so I hope you like it like that.

Any suggestion is welcome, thanks for following, 

Dan

[CDW]

Excellent

[king derelict]

Lovely subtle weathering

Alan