Some Tempests, Typhoons and a Supermarine thing or two

[NARSES2]

BTW, how many of those Academy Typhoon/Tempests have you built now?  Any chance of a shot of a line-up of 'em all?

Lastly, love the idea of the allies pushing to meet up around the Black Sea......mainly because it gives me all kinds of ideas for late war RAF planes in Desert Camo

About 6 of each with others in the stash and yes I will get a family photo done

My scenario then goes on to include an Allied push into South Eastern Europe from Turkey and on into Central Europe like the late WWI Salonika campaign, or it's end anyway. Also through Italy into Southern France and Austria

[NARSES2]

Excellent bunch, well done Chris.  Love the Supermarine 327 - how long did it take to build it? 

2 months or so, but that was picking it up now and again. Strangely I enjoyed it but then I can accept less then perfect. The difficulty was establishing how the undercarriage would contract and where it would go. From drawings (thanks Geoff) it appears that it may have been telescopic. All conjecture because the mockup obviously hadn't got that far unless they used a Gotha front wheel !!

[Taiidantomcat]

These are excellent! I love the desert Camo on the Russian Typhoon-- brilliant choice

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Like most of the guys have said, Chris, the French Tempest just looks right, easily one of your best. As you may have seen elsewhere, I'm reading 'Russian Lend Lease Aces' atm. In the P-40 chapter it mentions that the Soviets got a (small) number of P-40K's and M's from storage in Egypt, already painted in MS/DE/AB, so the desert Tiffie is not too hard to believe.

Keep them coming, bud 

Ian

[Tophe]

Even if my passport says I am French, my very favourite in this batch is your Twin-Engine Spitfire 327, so unusual...
Thanks for this pleasant model you show us. (The others are not bad either, just less wonderful for me prefering shapes than colours)

[NARSES2]

Thanks Gents

[BlackOps]

Chris, they are all great but i especially love that French Bird!    A job well done sir!

[Mike Wren]

really good set of models, Chris, I especially like the French Tempest 

[Mossie]

Great bunch Chris!  I'm particularly fond of the Syrian Tempest.  The Tiffie is a type that I think the Russians would have used to great advantage & that Type 327 is great!  Good job(s)!

[comrade harps]

Good set. Especiall keen on the Red one - plenty of scope with alternative WW2 Red air imports. Well done.

[van883]

Final one

Supermarine 327 Shrike of 193 Sqd operating from Sicilly circa 1943.

Developed under the 6 cannon armed fighter Spec F18/37 the 327 finally entered service in late 1942 as the Shrike. The 6 20mm cannon buried in the wings proved troublesome mainly because of their exceptional close proximity to each other and in service the middle of each three was normally removed. The aircraft still had formidable concentrated firepower however with the advantage of slightly increased range.

Operating on fighter sweeps over Southern Italy and Sardinia the Shrike buit a reputation as a decent if not spectacular aircraft. However it was during the Allied advance up the Rhone Valley in 1946 that the remaining Shrikes came into their own. By now operating in the fighter bomber role with two 500lb bombs on underwing hardpoints and increased internal tankage in the wings they took heavy toll of Axis transport and troops retiring from the advancing Allies, being able to stay over the battlefield for longer periods then the single engined fighter bombers and the newer jets.

Model is the Unicraft one with a fair few additions and a lot of miliput to sort out miss-aligned nacells etc. Still I enjoyed her  Markings are from the spares box - probably Academy.

What was the kit like to build? I've only ever attempted one unicraft kit before and it was challenging....

Van

[NARSES2]

What was the kit like to build? I've only ever attempted one unicraft kit before and it was challenging....

Van

Challenging is a fair comment Van. If I'd have got my cutting a little more accurate I wouldn't have used as much miliput 

However the major parts are ok, the smaller ones are a bit of a curate's egg and I've still not identified what one part was meant to be when it started life as two part resin ! I used some cockpit bits from the spares box and the undercarriage and wheels also came from the spares box. The props and spinners are usable although I had a couple of Italeri Spit IX's in the stash which offer a couple of options in that department so I used those.

The main thing is that I enjoyed the build, the "secret" is to pick it up, do a little, put it down ---- repeat.

Chris

[sideshowbob9]

Love the spiteful and shrike!