There aren’t many Typhoon’s out there and it was an important aircraft. I had a good experience building a T-6 recently (my first Revell since the early 1960s). As I understand it, these old kits varied in quality (the news ones do, so it would make sense): the Typhoon a good one? (I’ve got their Ju-52 high on the build list: I think that’s a plane that could benefit from raised lines and I’m going to weather the thing to make it fit for a flight to Stalingrad. Sounds fun.)
Eric
It’s not “bad”. It suffers from some dimensional accuracy issues. Details are typical from that Monogram range - enough for some people, but still leaves a lot to be added if you wish. It is comparable to the T-6 that you just completed.
Not sure about the Monogram. I have Hasegawa’s typhoon in the stash and its detail is superb!!. It has fit issues that I’ve read about, such as inserts around the cockpit for the different variants not fitting well and needing some putty and a shim or two. The decals look good and from my experience with Hase decals should give you no trouble.
Considering the cost of the kit and that is from the sixties it is a very nice little kit. It does not have a lot of detail but to me it looks like a Typhoon.
I enjoyed building the Revelogram offering and for a kit you can easily get for under 15 bucks its a winner in my book. Raised panel lines and a sparse interior would be my only ‘gig’. The fit was nice ,no major gaps to deal with.
I built the T-6 after spending nearly five months rebuilding an antique battleship engaging in the kind of complex project I don’t really have the skills for. (I’ll grant it was the best model I’ve ever made, but I can’t say it was a lot of fun.) Something basic was good for the morale. And that’s a nice looking kit you’ve got there. Not sure that I shed tears over the T-6 interior. My planes don’t go to contests and, frankly, nobody looks inside the canopy. Clean build and good camo shows up though. IMHO most models of WWII aircraft are underweathered - that would be one way to handle raised lines. And a fighter bomber that spent most of its time at 10,000 ft or under would look like your car does after driving across Nebraska. (Sometimes I wonder if engraved lines lead to the right place: you can certainly see the major breaks along the control surfaces on a real plane, but I find most other lines quite indistinct at fifty feet. Models that have pre-shading, washes and post shading often have lines I find much too prominent. Depend a lot on the plane.) Appreciate the opinion.
Eric