workshop 3/5

Tempest Main Subassemblies

With model painted and decals applied another important stage of model building has been achieved. Now it is time to start weathering...

Tempest Painting & Decaling

Painting wise it is a 3-colour camouflage pattern with RAF Medium Sea Grey (RC289) on the belly and RAF Ocean Grey (RC288) and RAF Dark...

Tempest Flaps and Fuselage Assembly

While working on the Sabre engine I was moving forward with fuselage assembly as well. Application of putty requires it to dry before...

Sabre II Engine for Tempest

This is my second approach to recreation of fully visible inline engine for the aircraft. First engine I did was Jumo 211 for Ju-87 Stuka...

Hawker Tempest Cockpit

First let me say say, that making this cockpit by using original, very detailed and crisp Eduard plastic parts straight from the box will...

Tempest Main Landing Gear & Gun bays

Building aircrafts mostly starts with the cockpit and according to the instruction booklet of Eduard 1:48 Hawker Tempest Mk V series 2 it...