1/48 Revell Eurofighter Typhoon

Gallery Article by Zhou Kun on Mar 7 2011

 

Hello, everyone here, I am Zhou Kun from mainland China (Zhou is my family name). I am a doctorate student who majors in flight mechanics and flight control systems. It is a great pleasure to submit here in ARC. My Revell Eurofighter Typhoon has just been finished in the Spring festival.

Generally, Revell provided us a great kit and did a great job to capture the shape of a real Eurofighter. However, some little flaws are still found in the fitting and scribed lines. Thus finishing the kit needs a lot of putty and sanding. I did not use any aftermarket products. The kit provided a lot of configurations, thus one have a lot of options with fuselage markings and loadout schemes.

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Construction:

It took me about 2 years to complete the kit since I only build models in holidays. The fitting of the kit is generally OK, but it needs a lot of filling and sanding (especially the nasty air intake duct). The wings of the aircraft came in top and bottom halves, therefore extra sanding works were done to make the trailing edges thin enough.  I selected to build a British Typhoon F.2 at RAF Coningsby (may be FGR.4 now). So the nose and leading edge of canards and vertical tail are a little darker than  that of fuselage. For fuselage, I used Gunze C334 Barley Gray since RAF air-superiority aircraft are tend to use the same color (Tornado F.3s and RAF Phantoms also use this color). :p

I scratch built the AOA/Sideslip Sensors, rear view mirrors, and handles in the cockpit using placards. The numbers for decals provided in instructions were totally wrong, so one must re-number those little stencils carefully.

Revell provided us a whole set of weaponary in the kit. So I picked the MBDA Meteor AAMs, AIM-120Bs and ASRAAMs, alongside the Storm Shadow cruise missiles.

Regards,

Zhou Kun

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Photos and text © by Zhou Kun