1/48 Revell Eurofighter Typhoon

Gallery Article by Christopher Lundberg on July 14 2009

 

Eurofighter Typhoon Single Seater

I started to build this on 2 August 2008 and finished it on 13 August 2008. A lot of research on the web, for new markings instructions. The instructions provided were not accurate.  My model was built out of the box.  I brush painted the whole model with Revell, Humbrol enamels and some black acrylic from a Airfix kit also brush painted inside the canopy. 

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I put putty inside the nose when constructing the model with a mixture of putty and small nuts.  All in one in the nose for the ballast. The nose was not yet on the model, some nuts were super glued under the cockpit. I avoided the super glue to ran on one of the canards joint. On the other side a little mishap happened with the superglue running on that joint point.  After some spinning the superglue had dried around the joint and the canard left free. The nose with putty had hardened (only the visible part) I thought. I continued the construction, nose glued in place. I used Revell Glue and perhaps some superglue on that part. After the days went on with the construction, the nose had one day started to collapse. It turned out for me that all the putty, had not hardened inside the nose. The plastic was soft. After some wondering I drilled some holes by hand with a screw.  The nose was really soft on the top and underside had kept its form. The construction went on while checking the nose each day for more interesting moments. In the end stage of building, when only the nose was unpainted. The decals were put on the model with brush painted Revell varnishes gloss, mixture of gloss & matt and a matt coat. The nose had hardened by now I thought, the top needed some sanding with Mirka sandpaper. Putty to fill the holes on top of nose and more sanding. Then brush painted with Revell steingrau enamel and some matt varnish on the nose.

The kit comes with many weapons and decals which I found useful. The overlapping parts, I am planning to use on a other model.

Christopher Lundberg

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