Eurofighter retro scheme

[Army of One]

That's what i used on my BoB P39 builds....looks great....

[darthspud]

yay!!

Have 29 in enamel and 30 in acrylic.
Let the fun begin!

[darthspud]

A couple of W.I.P. photo's of the Eurofighter and a couple of other concurrent builds.




Undecided what to do with the F/A18

The Eurofighter is going Battle of Britain once I get the scheme looking reasonable
The TSR2 is for the back story of the F-117D I did a week or two back.

[Howard of Effingham]

i think the silver F-18 would look very nice with an adaptation of the 56 sqn scheme when they flew lightning F1As
with a red fin and spine or it has to be said one of the early schemes of the lightning F2/2A with roundel blue fin
and spine [of 19 or 92 sqns].

either way its crying out for some colorful scheme with all that silver.

[darthspud]

I think the fin flash will have to be over-sized set from a 1/48 Hurricane project.
I've got sufficient fuselage lettering for pretty much any Sqn I choose.
I'm not doing RA '0' F though as it looks awful.

pure plagiarism for the back story!

[Captain Canada]

Have us thinking now ! The green looks pretty green to me tho, like the old Harrier GR.5s wore. I had a two pot camo system ( well, three if you add the underside ) but somewhere along the line lost sight of my favourite colours.....

[darthspud]

I thought the green was a tad 'modern', but assembled gurii here and elsewhere say Humbrol30 is the correct green for RAF WWII.

Who am I to disagree?

Working up the backstory and finishing the build this afternoon as the weather is somewhat seasonal.

[darthspud]

CC, you know you got me thinking.
You might be right, if my pics from Gutersloh are colour correct.
I was there in late 80's and GR5's went past my office regularly, and the colour I recall and photographed appear similar.

[darthspud]

Last day of my summer leave, and the Eurofighter project continues apace!
Back story.

apologies and thanks to the author John Birmingham, he wrote Weapons of Choice, and that is where i'm loosely basing this back story.

Summer 2036.
The Caliphate rulers of Turkey and several former Soviet 'stans are engaged in brutal anti Christian/jewish/hindi pogroms.
NATO has been proven a paper tiger, and the USA has become increasingly isolationist following 20 years bloody engagement in Syria and Iran.

E.U. forces under the command of a British Admiral, Dutch Marine General, Spanish Air Force General and British Army General are engaged in bitter street fighting in and around Istanbul, Marmaris, across the whole of Tashkent and Uzbekistan.
Joint scientific efforts to bring about an early cessation of hostilities are focused on a number of naval and air power projects.

Project Dieppe, as a U.K. & Japanese effort to create a cold fusion reactor , small enough to fit into military ships as oil and even coal production is vastly below the current requirements for the militarys' usage and as a consequence the civilian populations are starting to 'enjoy' severe power blackouts and food shortages.

Project Dieppe is a failure in that it fails to safely create a stable fusion reactor and Japanese and U.K. naval forces lose several warships and civilian impressed vessels, but ........

[darthspud]

HMS Queen Elizabeth sailing on her last deployment, along with two Type 46 Destroyers and several RFA vessels are subject to  ship-wide blackouts. When the crews regain consciousness it slowly becomes apparent that things are seriously wrong.
Emergency comms are ineffective and GPS and other normal nav equipment appear to be u/s.

This Typhoon (XK970) was going to be part of the newly reconstituted Royal Libyan Air Force, a gift from War surplus stocks held by the MOD and being shipped out on RFA Red Rover along with 11 other single and 6 twin seater Typhoons, when Project Dieppe went fatally awry.
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These photos show XK970 after she was flown off of HMS QE, back to Britain. Along with the other surplus aircraft she was quickly brought into RAF Fighter command and allocated to Sector Station at Tangmere to blunt the Luftwaffe attacks on the South Coast ports and industrial infrastructure.
The date,
1940 !

[PR19_Kit]

The piccies aren't showing darthspud.

[darthspud]

Photopukket playing up
Should be ok now.

[darthspud]

The kit is the early Airfix one, not high on detail  and some poor fitting parts.
Markings are a mixture of 1/48 Hurricane, xtradecal generic 1/72 lettering and odds and ends from various WWII decal sheets spares.
No engine detail, poor fit on the intake area, kit decals very flimsy and wouldn't adhere.
Other than that I enjoyed the build!

Not sure which of my stash i'll do next.

[PR19_Kit]

Yes, they're good now, and it looks TERRIFIC. 

The black/white underside is particularly striking. It'd make a good 'escort' to my Time Warp TSR2. 

[Howard of Effingham]

absolutely brilliant !!!!!!!