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This next bag contains some exterior components like the engine cover panels and resin versions of the wheels and pilot seat. I believe the small block in the front are the four gun barrel tips. I'm not familiar with all of the parts yet but I think this bag contains mostly engine components including impressively long and complex lengths of hydraulic tubing.
#Hawker tempest full#
Here are the contents of the next baggie full of resin. This resin is just too beautiful to ignore. I don't normally like to model my aircraft with open panels but I'm going to make an exception for this one. It is not a complete engine but nevertheless an impressive representation of the upper half of the Napier Sabre from the exhaust stacks on up. Inside the box, I found four separate baggies of resin parts, including this bad boy. The resin components come in their own little box. the highlight of the kit for me is the beautiful representation of the Napier Sabre engine in resin. I can fix the scratches but not the distortion, unfortunately.īack to that Napier Sabre engine. The clear parts exhibit some scratching (maybe not the manufacturer's fault since I bought this kit secondhand) and some distortion as well. But, it looks like a good result can be obtained by using the plastic instrument panels with the instrument faces represented by decals. Given the amount of included resin and photoetch, it is somewhat surprising that Special Hobby does not give the modeler a choice when it comes to the instrument panel. the stitching detail isn't overly exaggerated. I like how Special Hobby treated the fabric-covered control surfaces. Special Hobby has done an excellent job of not skimping in these areas. One of the places that manufacturers commonly sacrifice on mold definition is the interior side of the fuselage, wings and landing gear covers. Outside of the rivets, the molding quality on this kit looks very good. The dot pitch of the rivets does not align with either the RB Productions Rivet-R nor the Galaxy Tools rivet tool so any repair option is going to be manually intensive. Based on my initial observations, the riveting is good in some areas and inconsistent in others. Molded rivets are commonly too large and only a few companies can produce rivet detail that I think is great right out of the box (Tamiya and Eduard for example). The rivets made manually using a circular rivet tool produce very fine holes and result in an effect that is subtle and not distracting. I don't know if I'm happy about that or not.Īlthough I like my builds to be riveted, I don't necessarily like it when the rivets come as part of the molding. the exterior of the Tempest is fully riveted. There are plenty of online reviews that highlight the kit contents better than I so I'll simply you to Iain's wonderful review posted here at LSP if you are interested in a walk through.Ī few notes about the kit plastic. It is this powerplant that sets the Hi Tech version apart from the standard release.Īlthough I took the photos for it, I don't think I'll do a full sprue tour of this kit. The Hawker Tempest, like the Typhoon before it, was a brute of an aircraft, which is befitting of its immensely powerful 24-cylinder liquid cooled Napier Sabre powerplant. I will be referring to Chuck's build along with others that have come before and hopefully add my own things here and there. It will be tough following the bar set by Chuck540z3 so please notch down your expectations accordingly. It is not a subject that I am very familiar with but I started to think that, as a counterpart and worthy adversary to the Dora, it would be good for me to stick my toe on the other side of the fence. I purchased this one quite a while ago but after admiring the contents of the box after receipt, it went up on my shelf and has stayed there ever since.