After being a bit busy these last few weeks ive got a bit more done on the typhoon this weekend. The main thing has been the cockpit which is now done, the seat is painted with a few extra straps and cables and doesnt look too bad, the rest of the cockpit is fairly plain,as the modern ones are, with just switches and a throttle lever. The instrument panel is the same being just buttons and lcd display screens, the kit supplied item having raised detail and also supplying no less than 10 decals for this in case you didnt want to paint the detail. I settled for a mixture of the two and the only thing added here was the supprt struts for the HUD and a circle of holographic confetti for the projector screen. Once the cockpit is done the fuselage can go together but not before i drilled out the APU exhaust vent above the port wingroot. This is what causes the characteristic sooty mark on all typhoons and is just represented by a shallow hole on the kit. I decided to add a small tube to make the hole look better and used a section of bendy drinking straw ,superglued on at an angle. The fuselage is going to get glued tonight so hopefully it should start moving quicker now, cheers tony
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