Final paint and weathering.

Added salt mixture to simulate chips and scratches. Final paint coat is applied over the top of salt mixture leaving the metallic silver below. 

Salt mixture is removed to reveal silver below.

Sprayed with scratch filler primer in the home made spray booth.

Filled the low spots and remaining wood grain.

Next step is to do a final sand and start doing the finish coats of paint.

Decided to enter the Typhoon into the WRAM static competition. Therefor I have started work on a scale static prop.

The prop turns the opposite way due to the Napier Sabre engine.

I have cut out the wood and just have a lot of carving ahead!

Below shows the difference between the working prop for the O.S. FS-120 engine versus the scale prop.

Rudder Repair

Removed the damaged fabric and identified any broken structures.

Glued original parts back in place where they had split along the wood grain or come away.

Covered with new fabric using Balsarite, to prime the wood surface, and then adhered the light weight Coverite using a finishing iron.

Used the iron to heat shrink the fabric to the structural frame.

Painted the new installation using thinned enamel paint sprayed from an airbrush.

Undercarriage Finishing

DIY exhausted spray booth

Exhaust Pipes

Moulded the remaining exhaust stacks and mounted them to a some plywood ready for priming.

Mounted the exhaust stacks using spacers to allow ventilation air a route around the stacks. 

This creates a path for air to cool the engine and gives a shadow around the stacks, creating more depth and a better scale appearance.

Scale Radiator Detail

Landing Gear Finishng

Primer and final painting 

Removing some friction grease from dampers to gain a little more speed.

Scale Hispano Mk II cannon

Landing Lights

Scale wing Rivets