Shaped masks for the early Typhoon Ib with the car door, 1:48 scale. The divided canopy from both sides, two sets of insignia masks and a printed sheet.
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The first production Typhoons had a cockpit the pilot got into through a door with a lowering window, as if he were getting into a car. The framed canopy above it worsened the view to the rear so much that a sliding teardrop soon appeared in production. It is the early form that is interesting for a modeler: the massive Napier Sabre, the thick wing section and four 20 mm cannons made it the best destroyer of ground targets the RAF had in 1943.
The cockpit frames are the one place on a model where no alternative exists at all. Nobody prints a sheet with which the skeleton of the glazing could be outlined; anyone without a mask has to cut every pane out of tape himself, and on a divided canopy that means hours of work with an uncertain outcome. Die-cut film turns that task into a few minutes of laying pieces down.
On this version the side door can be shown open and the whole frame is visible from inside. Inner masking is therefore not a luxury but a condition of a decent result. The shape is based on the molding from Hasegawa. Use the surplus film to cover the cannon barrels and to define the light line around the position lights in the wingtips. Anyone building a machine with rockets should close the cockpit before starting on the stores.
Naši poradci a znalci sortimentu jsou připraveni odpovídat na Vaše dotazy (Po–Pá, 8–18 hod).
Zeptejte se na co potřebujete, odpovíme co nejdříve.
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