Italeri Typhoon
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2 3 January 2017, 11:06
Spanjaardvery nicely done gorbygould. beautiful. You only forgot to add the kit to the project, since i believe it is not "scratchbuilt" right? 😉
4 January 2017, 15:05
gorbyUppss! Forgot to add the project - what a plonker. Thanks for the reminder and your comment Spanjaard.
4 January 2017, 15:51
Murad ÖZERi like the menacing looks of te typhoon and tempest very much. excellent job gorbygould! 👍
4 January 2017, 15:53
Geoff Nadin..and you remembered to blank out the landing light on the leading edge. Apparently the rocket exhausts melted the Perspex so they had to do a quick field change. Nice project!
5 January 2017, 02:26
gorbyThanks Hanno, Eastlancs & Ulf
Unfortunately my brother-in-laws sister threw away most of Nibby's service stuff, including his flight books and many photos (he was a member of a crash investigating team after the war) so his claim can't be proved now. Nibby claimed the 'kill' long before the Allies knew of Rommel's injury, so I don't know why it was attributed to another pilot.
I do have some of Nibby's photos – I'll put them on SCM sometime.
Thanks Ulf about Amber.
5 January 2017, 16:58
Gary BrantleyGreat job on one of my all time WWII warbirds! I enjoyed the backstory as well. Beautiful work Gorby. 🙂
7 January 2017, 15:08
gorbyThanks for your kind comments Tim, Stephan and Gary. I forgot to mention that this isn't my latest build, I did it a few months ago.
Tim: It's a very good kit, I enjoyed building it a lot. The one issue with the build that I had, was that it was a bugger to get the chin radiator central when the fuselage halves went together, so watch out for that.
Gary: It's one of my all time fav's as well. I don't know if you saw one of 'Eastlancs' builds which showed a prototype without the chin radiator – very interesting.
7 January 2017, 15:35
Andrey LuganskijI never build airplanes, so I am not proff. But it is great work!
17 February 2017, 12:35
gorbyThank you very much Andrey & Luis. It means a lot, coming from two exceptionally good modellers.
17 February 2017, 13:15
Peter MollenhauerJust looked at your Tyhoon, great build! I have the little one(1:72) of Airfix in my stash
19 February 2017, 17:46
gorbyThanks very much Pete - I find 1/72 too small to work on these days, I think I'll have to go to 1/24 eventually. 😉
19 February 2017, 17:53
Holger KranichVery nice build, Gorby! And a very nice story behind it!👍 Now we all know the real famous "Rommel Strafer"!;)
21 February 2017, 10:29
gorbyThanks very much Barkhorn and Holger – my brother-in-law will be very pleased that this tiny corner of the Internet finally knows the true facts. 😉
21 February 2017, 10:38
gorbyThanks Arron, Wilky and Bill, The quality of the kit helped enormously, I would highly recommend it.
Wilky: 'Nibby' had a remarkable life – I look forward to my brother-in-law telling me about him. Unfortunately most of Nibby's photo's and other documentation were thrown away by his daughter after his death. Because she wasn't interested in them, she thought that no one else would be! aaarrrggghhhh!!!!
21 February 2017, 13:15
wilkyI lived with a woman once that loved to throw out everything except her clothes. It was very annoying to get final notices for unpaid bills because she had thrown out the original as it looked untidy stuck to the front of the fridge. I don't live with anyone now and have never had a reminder notice for a bill since I kicked her out
21 February 2017, 21:08
gorbyThanks for your comment Kamal.
Wilky: Trying to understand a woman's thought process isn't part of my job description, so I'm not going to venture onto that rocky road - that way madness lies.
22 February 2017, 17:06
Jay Mountain GoatNice understated panelling,makes it look realistic - great job.
22 February 2017, 19:00
gorbyThanks Mike, but my efforts are humble in comparison to your stunning builds!
22 February 2017, 19:41
Bart TeunisJob Well done.... iT is in nu stash as Well, hou set a standard Gorby
22 February 2017, 20:30
gorbyThanks you very much for your comments Bart and Von Drinkoften! I'm constantly surprised that this one keeps cropping up.
23 February 2017, 15:59
Gilles PepinCheck out the cow in that diorama album, pic 31. My sense of humor. The reason for the purple bull is that the fellow who commissioned it was my hall-mate at Bishop's University, and that our varsity football home jerseys, you guessed it, were purple.
24 February 2017, 02:11
Chris VandegriftI really like the weathering. Thanks for adding the in progress pic too as that will help me on my next build. Love the background info especially.
25 February 2017, 01:38
gorbyThanks Alec, Eduard helped a lot! I'm starting to think that this post is immortal, it keeps coming back to life.
25 February 2017, 15:40
Alec K🙂 I am to the point that the more I use this platform, the less I understand how it works!
25 February 2017, 16:16
Album info
To prove I don't just do Luftwaffe stuff.
I did the 'Jasper' version in memory of my beloved dog Amber, who I miss every day.
Out of the box build other than the Eduard zoom.
Warning – Waffle ahead.
One of my many brother-in-laws is called Tony Fellows. Why am I telling you this? Because his dad was an RAF fighter pilot during WWII – 'Nibby' Fellows. He flew many different aircraft during and after the war (apparently second only to Eric 'Winkle' Brown in the different types he flew). The Typhoon was a particular favourite of his. On 17 July 1944, he was flying his Typhoon over Normandy looking for something to pump lots of holes in. He saw a German staff car with motorcycle out-riders, so he attacked – doing the aforementioned hole thingy. This is the exact day, and in the same area, that Rommel suffered major head injuries as a result of being strafed in his staff car. Some other pilot got the credit, but me and my brother-in-law know the real story (well, our version of it anyway).
