Is that the new Airfix TSR.2?

[nev]

Cockpit is very basic, as you can see.  If the canopies closed it shouldn't matter too much, but if you pop em open, well its crying out for some resin or EB (looks in Neomegas direction).  I added some seat belts out of masking tape just to try and add a bit of life in there.  Didn't bother with a wash or dry-brushing as there isn't any detail to highlight!    

I've done a lot of clean up work regarding sink holes (there are some really awkward ones in the gear wells) and stuck the intakes in (amid much frustration).  I'm on lates now for the next 3 days = no more modelling till the weekend.

[DamienB]

You probably won't want to hear this, but the seat bodies should be aluminium, not camo grey - Airfix have got that wrong... and the green for the rocket tubes shouldn't extend over the top.

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/ts...ll/cos97407.jpg

[DamienB]

"Admiralty Grey", if I recall rightly, was the description given of the cockpit colour during the interminable meetings on cockpit design. Airfix's cockpit decals look to be too light a shade of grey too.

[nev]

The only colour references I had were the pics on ThunderandLightnings, and those seats look light grey to me  

The cockpit is Halfords grey primer, which looks close enough to the fuzzy cockpit shots on T&L.  Meh, who cares about exact colour matches anyway when the cockpit is so bare and basic.  :dum:  

[Aircav]

If your doing a inservice a/c does it matter what shade of grey it is ?

[Geoff_B]

Now the question is are those Seat colours correct, the green tinted aluminium tubes and the aluminium sides. i know the prototype seats on display are these colours but wouldn't the actual ones on the aircraft have been painted  ?

As for the cockpit detail Nev, get your arse over to Aeroventure at Doncaster and find out if martins revised PE brass set is ready for selling as he's adapted his one from the resin set to fit the Airfix kit (changed the layout as less needed - reamining stuff fits fine ).

Only bit i don't really like about the kit is the Bomb Bay, i would have been nice to have had a seperate piece to act as the interior of the bay as detailing it will be rather hard. But thats an operational issue, at least the opening is there and complete with detailed blanking plate to represent the test equipment firteed to the prototypes.

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[P1127]

"Admiralty Grey", if I recall rightly, was the description given of the cockpit colour during the interminable meetings on cockpit design. Airfix's cockpit decals look to be too light a shade of grey too.

I beleive the correct colur is Dark Admiralty Grey, which seems to have been RAF cockpit coolur of choice since they stopped painting them black - and wqhich Humbrol do as no 5 (Which might be a new colour - I don't recall it from older charts)

[TsrJoe]

TSR.2 cockpit interior colour was 'Dark Admiralty Grey' a med grey shade with a slight blueish tinge similar to US. Neutral Grey(some of the metal panels varying slightly in shade too!)

the instrumentation thermal blankets on XR219/220 were of an orange shade originally pretty clean and bright but a tad grubby now in the museum!

im currently compiling a note as to panel differences between XR219/220 as there were a few around the intakes...

...guessing we've all noticed the black (or red?)instrumentation venturi intake on the port side? Aeroclub do a suitable piece in their white metal range and ill be adding a resin one to my own releases too!

does anyone think its worth being a jmn and releasing new tailplanes???

cheers joe  

[Spellbinder99]

OK Joe, what is wrong with the tailplanes?

Cheers

Tony

[Aircav]

Just found this page on the MB Mk.8 seat  
http://www.ejectionsite.com/mk8aseat.htm

[Captain Canada]

You probably won't want to hear this, but the seat bodies should be aluminium, not camo grey - Airfix have got that wrong... and the green for the rocket tubes shouldn't extend over the top.

Yes, and they're way to small ! Why, you can barely fit a pinky finger-tip into them ! Whereas the real ones can easily fit a full grown human !

 

[K5054NZ]