I still haven't got the cowling fitted satisfactorily to the KP Tempest II.  It's like the glue (Revell Contacta and/or Tamiya Extra Thin) isn't fully compatible with the styrene and so the joints are not as strong as they could be and keep letting go when I apply force to try to get the cowling sides to line up.
This all seems to be a lot of effort just to end up with a RW aircraft.  With the next one I might as well make it worthwhile and fit something not meant to be there.

I've got the Tempest cowling firmly attached to the fuselage.  I can now appreciate why Chris put it to one side in frustration.  It's going to need a lot of PSR in tricky places and i'll lose all the engraved detail.   

Tempest primed (but no putty yet),

Tempest II WIP  18-09-2022 03 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Tempest II WIP  18-09-2022 02 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Tempest II WIP  18-09-2022 01 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Not as bad as I thought, but still not as good as it should be and work needed in awkward places.  Still, seeing it in primer has improved my feelings towards it.
I do like the way it looks in the first pic with a tiny canopy (a blob of play doh).  Got me thinking about doing one as a race plane...

Nice recovery, Fred!

Quote from: Old Wombat on September 18, 2022, 05:03:15 AMNice recovery, Fred!

Indeed 

Coming along well. 
I still like the powerful and almost brutal look of the aircraft. 

Thanks folks.

Chris, I had no issues with the fit of the engine into the cowling or the ring on the front.
I aligned the engine plate with the notch at the top (and the Magneto at the bottom) and the ring so the sprue attachment points were East/West.

Thankyou, noted 

Here is a usefull pic I found on the interweb.



Just don't overlook the fact it is reversed.

So, it should look like this:

  

That thing leaks oil like a Phantom!

Quote from: kerick on September 20, 2022, 07:25:30 AMThat thing leaks oil like a Phantom!

It's English.  Everything English leaks oil.

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I bet the mechanics called it "Puddles"!

Quote from: scooter on September 20, 2022, 07:26:32 AM

Quote from: kerick on September 20, 2022, 07:25:30 AMThat thing leaks oil like a Phantom!

It's English.  Everything English leaks oil.

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But a Phantom isn't English, apart from the engines in the RAF and FAA ones anyway.