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their undersides. A further issue

occurs when you come to join

the fuselage halves together.

The rivet detail on these

pieces is gorgeous and would

have been so much easier to

preserve, had Eduard supplied

the top section of the engine

cowling as a separate piece. As

it is, much of this detail is going

to disappear in the eradication

of an unnecessary seam. I

like my airscrews to rotate

and I was disappointed that

Eduard would have you glue

this large and signiicant item

in a static position. Another

preference is to show radiator

outlet laps open. Eduard have

moulded what is a another

very prominent part of the

Tempest’s distinctive outline

in its blandest setting - closed.

So, it was out with the razor saw

and plastic card to display this

area of the aircraft as it should

be. My inal thought concerns

the large number of ishplates

that are supplied as part of the

PE set – twenty-one little bits

of steel in fact, with no spare.

I appreciate that the moulds

will be used for later variants

and only early Tempests had

these reinforcements on

the tail, but what a pain!

It’s hardly the fault of

Eduard that all Tempests of

this period looked the same.

Every option on ofer requires

Medium Sea Grey undersides

with Dark Green/Ocean Grey

topsides. All sport a Sky tail

band and all except Beamont’s

aircraft have matching Sky

spinners. I wanted to do an

aircraft with invasion stripes

if only to experiment with

making them look ‘roughly

applied’ as suggested by

Eduard, so I went for aircraft

JN763 from No. 486 (RNZAF)

Squadron based at Newchurch

in June 1944 and tasked with

bringing down V1 Flying

Bombs launched from occupied

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