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Eurofighter Typhoon; 1:72 Scale (03952)
Topic Started: Feb 4 2017, 10:24 AM (1,149 Views)
Johni044
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Eurofighter Typhoon
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Background

The development of the Typhoon can be traced back to the Future European Fighter Program that was a multinational endeavour between UK.Germany, France, Italy and Spain. National interests affected the development and ultimately France left the group and proceeded with their own similarly styled Rafale. The remaining members carried on development resulting the British Aerospace EAP as a technology demonstrator which utilised many parts from existing aircraft including the then relatively new Tornado.

The plane is a highly agile twin engined, canard delta swing role aircraft with capable of carrying a wide range of offensive weapons on up to 13 hard points on the wings and fuselage together with an internal Mauser BK-27 277mm cannon. It is produced in both single and twin seat configurations.

The type finally started to enter service in 2003 and so far has entered into the inventory of the Air Forces of the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austrian, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Kuwait with 599 units being on order as of 2016 of which 488 had been delivered by November 2016.

The Kit

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This brand new tooling for 2017 comes on 4 runners of grey styrene with two of clear plastic containing the 85 parts requires to make the plane which when finished will be 22.2cm long with a 15.5cm wingspan.

Features (from the box)
Detailed cockpit and ejection seat.
Detailed engine intake.
Choice of open and closed exhaust nozzles.
Air brake can be either deployed or retracted.
Detailed undercarriage.
Extended or retracted refuelling probe.
2 External tanks
Choice of weapon fit.

The Plastic

Gate A

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Gate B

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Gate C

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Gate E

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Gates I & G

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A clear instrument panel is a nice introduction, however the seam line down the center of the canopy will need to be polished out.

Inspection of the parts shows fine engraved and raised detail commensurate with the scale of the kit. It is flash free and what ejector marks there are are not on any visible surfaces. Care will be needed detaching some of the finer undercarriage parts from the sprue, they are not particularly thick but the parts look very delicate.

Looking at the gate breakdown you will notice that gates D,F and H are missing, given the breakdown with the fuselage spine and separate windshield and canopy I will suggest that sometime in the future a twin seat version will be produced and the missing gates will be fore the Fuselage, spine and canopy of two seat airframe.

One area which I am surprised about relates to the weapons fit. This kit only comes with that decal option of the TaktLwG 71 “Richthofen” special scheme and l consequently a full weapons callout is not required. However the plane can be fitted with 4 wing pylons and the kit comes supplied with three with the wing only having three location holes on inner surfaces. Perhaps this might be catered for in subsequent releases.

Decals

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As stated before, only one decal option, that of 30+90 TaktLwG 71 “Richthofen Juli 2016. The decals themselves have good colour saturation and are in perfect register if a little flat looking in appearance.


Instructions

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The new style all colour instructions show the construction concisely over the 35 stages plus two painting and decal placement guides. Colour callouts are standard Revell fare quoting Revell paint numbers only of which 4 will need mixing.

Link to Instructions

Conclusions

This is the third time that Revell have tooled the Typhoon (1988 and 2004, although they did re-box the Italeri kit in 2001) but not having made or seen their earlier releases I must presume that Revell want a kit produced to their latest standards for an airframe that is going to be part of many air forces for decades to come. The release of a special scheme as the introduction to the kit seems a little strange but they did the same with the 1:48 Tornado so the practice must be financially viable for them.

The kit looks good, the issue I have had with any Typhoon kit I have made is the fit of the intake and I will report back regarding this area after I have made it. With this proviso a kit I can readily recommend.

Many thanks to Revell for the review sample.

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peebeep
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Interesting that this is subject to re-tooling, as the earlier kit was well regarded, maybe the older tooling was damaged or is somehow no longer suitable for manufacturing kits? Another curiosity is the wing pylons, the older kit came with two, when generally Typhoons were seen fitted with three, now they have three when generally Typhoons are fitted with four! The older tooling also came with a nice selection of weapons, AIM-9L, AMRAAM, ASRAAM, Stormshadow, Taurus, Iris-T, Meteor and 1000L tanks. Maybe an enterprising aftermarket manufacturer will do the extra pylon and a selection of ordnance, we could do with some LGBs and you see photos of Typhoons carrying a mind boggling amount of weapons.
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johnnyb
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Great looking kit. Thanks for the review.

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Martin
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I still have tooling from 2004 which looks good to me (in some areas it could be engineered a bit easier in my opinion)
It is interesting as some Revell kits are re-tooled so often and some are 30 yers old untouched :)
Anyway I like some old scholl 1:32 kits as Corsair, Lightning not too complicated, good in shape and after nice colour finish and weathering they looks still great.
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