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Model Forum / General / Models / June 2008Typhoon and Thunderbolt bubble canopies
I vaguely recall having read that when the Hawker Typhoon cage type canopy was cut down and replaced with a bubble canopy the same type bubble canopy was also used to convert the Thunderbolt. Is this correct? If so it will be worth my while to do the same to the old 1/32 Revell Typhoon and Thunderbolt. They are cheap and big enough to cut up and modify. > I vaguely recall having read that when the Hawker Typhoon cage type > canopy was cut down and replaced with a bubble canopy the same type > bubble canopy was also used to convert the Thunderbolt. Is this > correct? If so it will be worth my while to do the same to the old > 1/32 Revell Typhoon and Thunderbolt. They are cheap and big enough to > cut up and modify. Hate to "burst your bubble", but this seems highly unlikely. The canopies might be somewhat similar, or even identical, but if so, this is purely coincidence. Both aircraft were converted to "bubble" canopies as engineered, production-line design revisions, not some kind of chainsaw field modification with leftover canopies. Thunderbolts were built in the US by Republic; Typhoons were built in England by Hawker. I doubt that they collaborated on the canopy design. Check your drawings before you go firing up your 1/32-scale Husqvarna - maybe they're close enough that it won't matter. I suspect the Typhoon has a more slender fuselage (and therefore narrower canopy) than the T-bolt, though. John > I vaguely recall having read that when the Hawker Typhoon cage type > canopy was cut down and replaced with a bubble canopy the same type > bubble canopy was also used to convert the Thunderbolt. Is this > correct? If so it will be worth my while to do the same to the old > 1/32 Revell Typhoon and Thunderbolt. They are cheap and big enough to > cut up and modify. ========================================================================= Hi there. If you do cut up the Thunderbolt can I get the 8 .50 cal wing guns from you? Cheers from Peter >> I vaguely recall having read that when the Hawker Typhoon cage type >> canopy was cut down and replaced with a bubble canopy the same type [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >Cheers from Peter I haven't opened either box yet and likely wouldn't get to this project for some years. Usually if an idea crosses my mind I mull on it so that I am in the right frame of mind to pick up more ideas along the way. I have something like a dozen unfinished model on the bench right now and enough stashed away to last me until I join that great big hobby club in the sky. Worse. I joined my local ship modeller's group and that's a whole new area (RC scale) that I am already quite deep into. Anyway back to your request are the wing guns just tubes or are all 8 in detail items that can be displayed with the gun panels open? I don't do that kind of "open for inspection" and all moving parts "moved" models. If they are separate items I can probably open the box and let you have them. >I vaguely recall having read that when the Hawker Typhoon cage type >canopy was cut down and replaced with a bubble canopy the same type >bubble canopy was also used to convert the Thunderbolt. Is this >correct? If so it will be worth my while to do the same to the old >1/32 Revell Typhoon and Thunderbolt. They are cheap and big enough to >cut up and modify. The very first bubbletop Thunderbolt used Typhoon canopy hardware, so you sort of have your story backwards. Typhoon canopy -> Thunderbolt; then both Typhoon and Thunderbolt develop parallel production versions using similar canopies. The Typhoon kept the same windshield in both versions so I'm not sure if a Thunderbolt canopy would necessarily fit. Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922 {Sig Quotes Removed on Request} > I vaguely recall having read that when the Hawker Typhoon cage type > canopy was cut down and replaced with a bubble canopy the same type > bubble canopy was also used to convert the Thunderbolt. Is this > correct? If so it will be worth my while to do the same to the old > 1/32 Revell Typhoon and Thunderbolt. They are cheap and big enough to > cut up and modify. The first bubble-top Thunderbold, the XP-47K, was created by cutting down the fusilage decking of an early P-47D and installing a Typhoon bubble canopy. The bubble canopy used on the production Thunderbolts was a different design. Unless you just wanted to spend money on a T-bolt, you could just get the vac Typhoon bubble canopy from Squadron................ > I vaguely recall having read that when the Hawker Typhoon cage type > canopy was cut down and replaced with a bubble canopy the same type > bubble canopy was also used to convert the Thunderbolt. Is this > correct? If so it will be worth my while to do the same to the old > 1/32 Revell Typhoon and Thunderbolt. They are cheap and big enough to > cut up and modify. > Unless you just wanted to spend money on a T-bolt, you could >just get the vac Typhoon bubble canopy from Squadron................ This is my other project. I had always wanted to do vacuum forming. I don't like the idea of using the kitchen oven. I thought through all manner of wiring up a stove heating element, building an oven equivalent, temperature and timer controls, the whole enchilada. The it crossed my mind that a $24 toaster oven (on sale) had all the elements I wanted - a safe container (from shocks and from fires) and a temperature control plus a timer. The toaster oven even has a glass window to watch for melt plasticity. Just the two controls alone from a parts shop would have cost me a lot more than than 24 bucks. I have already made the vacuuming platen and box. All that remains for me to do is to carve the pattern. Has anyone come up with a safe and sure method that can use the plastic model canopy or part as the vacuum pattern? |
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