NEW Airfix Hawker Tempest V 2022 tooling full review and build - HD 1080p
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In this video I'm building the brand new 2022 tooling of the Hawker Tempest V in 1/72 scale from Airfix. Is it easy to build and is there anything special you need to know? Watch and find out!
00:00 - Introduction
01:29 - History of the Tempest
04:01 - What's in the box?
08:00 - Building the Tempest
PAINTS USED
Vallejo Acrylics:
71.002 Medium Yellow
71.057 Black
71.062 Aluminium
71.065 Steel
71.126 IDF/IAF Green
71.257 Light Blue RLM76
71.273 Ocean Gray
71.279 Insignia White
71.307 BS Medium Sea Grey
71.315 Tyre Black
71.324 BS Dark Green
72.001 Dead White
72.006 Sun Yellow
77.721 Burnt Iron
Humbrol:
33 Black
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Love the video. You've inspired me to paint my invasion stripes rather than use the decals
I want one. Now. Terrific work. Airfix's Typhoon in the same scale was a great kit.
Cheers Jake. It is indeed a very nice kit overall.
FYI, the drop tanks are on the clear sprue because the pylons were transparent on the real aircraft. I’d guess they were made out of Perspex. This was so the fuel connections between the tank and the wing could be easily inspected. The Eduard 1/48 Tempest kit also has clear pylons.
Cheers Russell and thanks for the info. That is really interesting - I'll look into it further as I've not seen it on any other aircraft. There was presumably some internal structure apart from the fuel pipes.
Love your videos. Basic and down to earth but with enough details and commentary.
Hard balance but you nail it 👍
Cheers Chris, thanks for the kind remarks. I try to do them as I'd like to see them - knowing I'm no expert but just an enthusiast!
Beautiful model and build, thanks very much.
Despite the hiccoughs the finished model looks really good.
Thanks, I did enjoy it!
Hi Gary I’m new to your lovely nostalgic channel I used to make loads of different model kits as a kid back in the 1970s there used to be a great model shop I used to go to called Beatties in Kingston upon Thames. I remember making the Matchbox Hawker Tempest two colour kit. 👍😎
I remember Beatties, I was at school in Kingston. Mind you, at the time they made 1:1 scale Harriers and Hawks just up the road!!!
@@garys_stuff Hi Gary yes my cousin Martin was an engineer at Hawker Siddeley which later became British Aerospace. I moved to Bournemouth 30 years ago I the factory site is now a housing estate as the factory and my cousin relocated down to Sussex and I guess Beatties is long gone. What school did you go in Kingston? I went to Rutlish in Merton Park
@@arrangrant4614 yes, it is a housing estate - it was still a factory in I guess the early-mid 80s? I was at KGS.
The clear fuel tanks include their mounting fairings which were, indeed made of molded clear plastic over the un-aerodynamic Pylon. Mask off the fairing and paint the tank. I see from the visible cannon barrels that this is a "Series 1" Tempest (Early Production, of which only about 70-80 were made.) These were converted Typhoon fuselages and had the Typhoon's Wing Mounts, necessitating a small bulge in the wing root on the uppers to accommodate an elbow joint strut. The later production type flipped this elbow so the bulge appears on the lower wing/fuselage area. The other change from the early series was the use of a new cannon set with shorter barrels, hiding the cannon entirely within the wing, with only the blast tube ports showing on the leading edges. Almost all of the "Series 1" machines went to 150 wing, and any replacements were of the later "Series 2" type, so as late as mid-1945 you could see a mix of them both in photos of planes from 150 wing.
Thank you for that Brett. One of the joys of this TH-cam thing is finding people who have such knowledge on things one has never come across before. Now I can't wait for Airfix to do a series 2 Tempest so I've the excuse to do the drop tanks with transparent fairings! Seriously, thank you for this.
@@garys_stuff IF you have AM decals you can do a Series 2 because they have already provided the wings, just omit the cannon barrels! and drill out the mounts for the tanks, which "Should" be already in place on the underside part of the wing. Everything else is in the kit already.
The finished product looks great. Definitely a kit add to the stash.
Cheers Frank!
Beautifully done Gary!!!
Thanks Brian!
Now , Gary , this video was worth 21.26 of anyone's time . A lovely little kit , I couldn't help but think ; Hawker Typhoon whilst watching , though . The early version mentioned in the history section , the one powered by the , Bristol Centaurus , gave rise to my all time favourite prop aircraft ; the Hawker Sea fury , which if you have ever seen one you will know it has a sound all it's own . A build of one of those , if available , would be as real treat . Keep up the good work , Gary . Always a pleasure to watch .
Thanks Tony! I will lay my cards on the table right now and say the Sea Fury is my favourite aircraft of all time. I think it was watching one at Biggin Hill in the 1970s and being captivated by the growl of the Centaurus with the whistling from the exhausts as it rocketed past. There will be a Sea Fury here, I promise - maybe reasonably soon...
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Beautiful build and you really show you care by painting all Stripes and Yellow on the wings! Really enjoied this vídeo! Thank you for sharing! 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks mate! Hope you enjoy the new ones as they come out!
Amazing job. Love your channel!
Thanks Vikesh!
Outstanding build.
Cheers Bruno!
Excellent video, with great content and very well structured. I really like how you add the exact numbers of any paints that you use. I picked up the Tempest at Telford so I’m looking forward to building this.
Great presentation. Just what’s required and the model and brief history is great too. Nicely done.
Thanks Jonathan!
Hi Gary! Great voyage through your build experience. Great result indeed. Cheers!
Thanks Ramón!
That looks great. Nice work. 👍🏻
Thanks man!
Very nice work as always Gary! 👌I think the Tempest is such a sleek looking aircraft with beautiful lines. I built the Matchbox Tempest back in the eighties so this video brought back some nostalgia for sure .. Thank you for sharing and have a great weekend 🙂👍
My pleasure! Like the Sea fury later, it has a certain brutish elegance - looks sweet but you know when you're on the wrong end of it! Have a great weekend too!
Great job, Gary. Your videos, to me a neophyte, are an inspiration.
Thanks William, that's really good to hear!
When I think of the Hawker Tempest 5, my memory immediately recalls reading the latter chapters of Pierre Clostermanns thrilling exploits in his truly amazing memoir 'The Big show'. He flew these beasts from 1944 into 45 and his accounts particularly, flying this beast over a heavily defended France, Holland and Germany are legendary and visceral. I have read no better account anywhere about such action packed 'shivering with cold naked fear' soaked but incredibly brave war heroes and these amazingly deadly but sometimes temperamental aeroplanes. PS lovely build as always. just needs a bit of weathering, oil streaks and chipping to take it from 9.9 to. 10 out of 10.😉
I read Pierre Clostermann's; the Big Show and yes it is an excellent story.
I will have to read that. I met Bee a few times many years ago and he loved the Tempest but was wary of the Sabre engine. Had a few little tricks for the unwary, especially in cold weather!
@@garys_stuff And yes Ive got Bees 'testing years' also. But You will most certainly enjoy the big show . He (Clostermann) flew throughout the war with the french RAF squadrons but at the latter end even though the allies were winning, it was still quite Terrifying . The author puts you right in the co kpit of this big fighter and fighting FW 190 D9s is brought into sharp focus. I know you will find it a thrilling account that just gets more and more tense as he seems to do tour after tour. PS. Did I miss something ? As usual your Modelling is first class but the bit I did seem to miss was ? how you got those superb panel lines defined on the finished model ? . Did I miss something ?
No, you didn't miss anything - I forgot to do a quick clip of the panel lines going on - just some slightly diluted Vallejo model wash. Problems with the camera meant I had to switch to my phone and bits of the shooting script got lost...
Excellent build Gary! Nice detail for a small scale. Happy days and model on! 😎
Thanks Peter! You too!!
Beautiful job on the Tempest V. You obviously make your kits completely differently to me but at least they look like they should when I 've finished them which I suppose is the idea!Pleasure seeing your work 👍
Thanks so much 😊
Hiya Gary, i really enjoy the history parts that you include in your videos, i just got an Academy 1/72 Tempest V as i have never built a Tempest or an Academy kit before, the kit looks really good and I'm looking forward to building it, at the moment I'm about to attempt to mottle a Focke-Wulf 190 with a (cheap) airbrush for the first time fingers crossed for that, looking forward to seeing your next build.
Cheers Eddie! There are some really good airbrush tutorials around. I think the best and most basic advice I ever got was to get the air flowing first then gently add the paint, then make sure the paint is off before stopping the air. Takes a bit of practice juggling the pushing down bit for the air and the pull back bit for the paint, but it comes soon enough. As for Tempests, I've just got the KP Tempest V to compare with the Airfix...
Last week I picked up and built my first 1/72 ( I've been a 1/48 and 1/32 fan) aircraft kit in decades. I'd forgotten just how much fun these little beaut's are. More will appear in the stash as times goes along. Thanks for a great vid mate.
My pleasure - 1/72 is getting better and takes up less room I guess. It will be interesting to compare the new Airfix Meteor F8 in 1/72 when it comes out with the beauty in 1/48...
If I haven’t already said it before your no ordinary bloke your an artist thank you for uploads I’m taking notes 🤗
Wow, thank you! Glad you enjoy them!
@@garys_stuff 🤗
Another great build , painting the DDay stripes was a good idea I think, worked really well.
Thanks John - it certainly makes adding a bit of panel wash easier!
Reminds me of Tempest pilots being torn of a strip, after the war, for flying down a river bank below 0 feet. That and wearing Barathea blazers. Gotta wear standard issue, none of this flyboy stuff. Real characters. Great job on the kit 👍
Wonder if that's 0 feet to the belly of the plane or 0 feet to the props? Could be either!
Nice kit well explained.
Thanks man!
A very nice looking build Gary, you did a nice job of that.
I picked this kit up a few days ago but haven't had a chance to get to it yet, looking forward to it though, it should sit nicely with the Matchbox Tempest II I built a month or so ago.
Cheers Stuart. Yes, it's a nice effort in the main and looks good when done.
Hello Gary, smashing build as ever, I said from the start that you could work in television, as you produce your channel so professionally. It's as good as TV quality, question, how do you get your glue to adhere to painted surfaces? As I thought that the plastic surfaces would weld together. Keep it coming mate.......
Thanks Dean! I don't use too much paint is the first thing and I try to keep it away from larger surfaces. So far (fingers crossed) I've never had an issue...
Fab build! Thought for masking cockpits etc. Maybe make the mask a bit larger than needed and then fold it back along the edge of the part. Then you get a tab you can peel back instead of risking accidentally scratching the plastic.
Good tip!
Hi Gary, firstly I've just found your channel and will do a be more exploring of it and I've subscribed. Secondly I'm 1/72 model nut and the Typhoon and Tempest are my favourite aircraft build. Thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. I find you Brit's have much better presentation way of doing kit building. Just one thing, the sound kept cutting out but it was no biggie. All the best from Australia.
Hi Barry - I'll check out the sound thing, thanks for the heads up. All the best to Oz!
The wee pilot out the newer spitfire starter set is lovely compared to what the blob of plastic is in this!
It's like they don't bother checking the quality of them, just chuck on the one they've had for ages.
Yet another kit to join the stash but YAY 486(NZ) marking 👍
Cool huh? 486 was a special outfit.
Ah, the pilot figure! Just got myself a 'new' Sea Harrier as part of my FAA kick. The pilot is a classic WW2 bloke with leather helmet!! Just as well I never use them.
This looks a good 'un. My last Tempest was the old Frog kit built in about 1974. I recall it had a rather gimmicky clear disc with blurred blade marks to represent a turning prop.
FAA kick or not, I'll be getting one of these; thanks for the video 👍
Thanks Michael! Yes, I think I had the same problem with a Harrier - maybe even the Sea Harrier - with the Biggles figure. Its probably just a mistake importing figures from a library of CAD files into the design of the sprue, but it's still pretty shabby quality control.
I too have had an FAA kick in recent years, having made one of everything flown by 800NAS during its history. I'm going to make a history video of it soon - sadly the builds are all pre-TH-cam!
@@garys_stuff Now that I would like to see 👌
Looks like a good kit and you did a great job Gary! I might be tempted to get one of these . . . ( i know i said I would get on a while back but i need to get through my stash lol)
I think the new pilot figure seems to be a bit standard now - it's been in both the new Spitfire Vc kits, and i think it's underscale
Cheers, and yes you need one! There is probably a library of CAD parts on a server at Airfix from where designers can import the pilot figure so they don't need to design it from scratch every time. Just wish it were better modelled and the right size! IIRC the Mossie one worked out to be just under 5 ft tall... nothing against that per se, but not representative of the average RAF/FAA pilot, I believe. For every Winkle Brown there's a Joe McCarthy.
Great build Gary and fantastic to see your channel growing. What airbrush set up do you use?
Cheers Jon, very kind. I use a cheap airbrush set-up at the moment, as I'm not all that good with it yet! It's a Timbertech set from Amazon for about £70 - it has a compressor but not with a tank. The other thing I got recently was an ultrasonic water bath for cleaning, as keeping it free of clogged paint seems to be the way forward!
@@garys_stuff that's exactly what I use thanks for the reply.
Hi. Really enjoy watching your builds, very informative and to the point which is ideal for someone relatively new to the hobby like me.
One question though, you seem to paint your parts and then glue together without scraping paint from the contact points. If this is so, do you use special glue?
Many thanks.
No, don't use a special glue. I try to keep the mating surfaces clean where I can, but often it doesn't make much difference anyway. Sometimes I do need to sand off a bit of primer or paint when I do a dry fit. It's often the test of how well moulded the kit is!
Exce6build there sir, it must have been a brute of a aircraft, I have a 1/48th to build, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia
Cheers Les. I know Bee rated it very highly, although he said that in terms of the best plane he flew then head and shoulders above everything else was the Lightning. Maybe I should get a 1/48 Lightning as well....
underwing tanks are on the transparency sprue as there was a clear 'cut-out' on the real thing
Cheers for that - I guess on the model 2 kit they will suggest using the drop tanks and talk about that. It's amazing what we can learn from fellow enthusiasts!
A great aircraft and it’s good to have a decent kit of it in 1/72. Although I agree with you that Airfix could have got the pilot and cockpit detail a little crisper. Thanks Gary.
Glad you like it! It's odd that things like the Warhawk have a really well modelled pilot (you can see his tie, for goodness sake) but on newer kits like this and the Mossie they are small and really poorly moulded. Maybe its a dodgy 3D file they import as a standard WW2 British pilot now when they are doing sprue layouts. Several other Airfix kits just feel that bit crisper. I'd like to see someone like Arma Hobby do a Tempest, I like their Hurricane. Cheers Ian!
Great video Gary! You inspired to build one of these. Im still quite new to modelling and so am using your video as a guide. Out of interest, what primer did you use on the Tempest?
Most of the time I use Jenolite plastic primer in a spray can, it seems to have not too deep a coverage so you don't lose the surface details and my paints (mainly Vallejo) seem to like bonding to it! If I'm just adding a small area of primer I use the Vallejo grey primer in my airbrush.
@@garys_stuff Thanks Gary. That’s really helpful. I’m planning to airbrush the main surfaces using Tamiya acrylic paints, which will be the first time I’ve airbrushed with Tamiya paints. I’ve got Vallejo grey surface primer from previous builds but I’ve read in a couple of forums that people have said that the alcohol in the Tamiya Acrylic can react with the Vallejo primer and loosen it.
Hi Gary! Great vid, quick question, did you mask the underside separate to the top for the invasion stripes or was it the same piece of tape wrapped round? Wondering how to line up the top and bottom invasion stripes as I had this kit arrive yesterday! Thanks
Thanks man! What I did was lay the lines for the top surface in 3mm tape with a little dangling over the front and rear edges so they gave me a guide for the corresponding lines underneath. Sometimes I'll wrap around the tape but it needs a pretty unswept edge as it can be difficult to get the top-to-bottom transition right - or at least I can't do it all that well. Hope you have fun wit the kit!
Gday. I can say after waiting about 6 months for my kit I am quite disappointed because I have found a number of problems with mine firstly the area where the wings slide under the fuselage created a ridge along the fuselage join and the horizontal stabilisers created a gap.
I don’t know if you have experienced these issues but I’d say you’ve done a great job.
I think there were a few places where some filler was needed but they really were very small. The horizontal stabilisers seem to be an issue with many kits these days, I don't often find them fitting absolutely perfectly.
Great Job Gary really enjoyed watching today. I have been building a Red Arrow Knat starter kit by Airfix. I have enjoyed it but have a question about a couple if parts not in the instructions. To cut a long story short I deducted that they were wing tanks. Is this kit a older moulding that Airfix has reissued. The second problem was the landing gear snapped apart when taking it off the spruw. I took you advice of being carefull and cut it off giving it plenty of room.. I had to use a landing gear from a P51 mustang that I had kept for kit bashing. Have you done anything like this ?
I would also like to add that I have bought today from my local game shop a airfix tiger tank that I am really looking forward to building ..
This kit is a new tool, never been issued before. The extra bits and pieces mean there will be other boxings of this later on - this is the early Tempest V, the alternative bits (like the 5-spoke wheels) were for the later Tempest Vs.
As for the landing gear - what I try to do is put the parts back together using something like blu-tack to hold them in position then use a drop or two of ultra thin cement on the joints. Leave them to set, preferably overnight. Of course, it the part is damaged when it breaks - like gets bent on one end - you might have no option but to cannibalise something else like you have done. Sounds like quite the repair job!
Hi Gary - just wanted to thank you for a thoroughly enjoyable channel; I particularly appreciate the potted history section you've started to include. I fully understand the focus on aircraft given your RAF credentials and know you've done one or two non-plane eps; even more, perhaps a warship or two, would be most appreciated, even if they're not from Airfix.
One (hopefully constructive!) comment on your music - the choice is up to you entirely of course, but if you could even out the volume between it and your commentary I'd much appreciate it because the differential is quite large, in favour of the music currently. TBH - if that's all I've got to moan about you must be doing an awful lot right 😄.
Thanks for the kind comments. I thought about the music and I know what I’ve been doing wrong. Another video will go up tonight, hope it is better volume control! I will explore other types of models and other stuff - I have a history with 15mm / 18mm Napoleonics for example. Glad you’ve enjoyed the content and looking forward to creating more!!!
@@garys_stuff Many thanks for the upbeat reply Gary. I did think twice about posting my whole comment but thought that if no-one mentions the music you can't have the chance to fix/improve it. I'll look out for tonight's post when I get the notification. Thanks again for not being defensive 👍.
@@Robutube1 mate I'm too new at this to think I know everything - hope I never think that! Feedback is everything to me - positive or negative as long as its intention is friendly. I appreciate that people take the time to point stuff out to me. If I disagree on anything, I'll give a reason why. No point doing this otherwise!
Build looks very nice. Not sure why you didn't use the kit decals for the stripes. They worked very well on the Airfix Typhoon, probably just as good here
Maybe so, but for these really large expanses I find it easier to paint them to get the panel lines. Microset and microsol sometimes just don’t do it for me. Might be doing it wrong, of course!
I believe there is a early version of the tempest without the air intake on the chin in cosford
I'm going up there later in the year - I'll keep an eye out!
Hi Gary, I also have this kit and was wondering how you masked the landing gear doors so that the stripes matched those on the wing.
Hi Evan, I did the layout for the wings then placed the doors where they belonged when closed and marked out the edges. You can also double check by referring to the three-view in the instructions. It really isn't difficult once you get it in your head which piece goes where!
@@garys_stuff I thought of doing that method, but the gear doors sit well below the rim of the gear bay. Did you pack it out first to get the doors to sit level?
I have a little critic to ur documentary part of the video. The tempest wasn't able to shoot down a me 262. Only while starting or landing was the me 262 vulnerable to attacks. In the sky the tempest was no match for the 262.
In a straight chase, yes but Closterman talks about the Tempest V being used specifically to counter the threat of the Me262 in the ATAF forward bases and there is camera gun footage from P-51s of Me262s getting caught and shot down in dogfights - but you're right, the best chance of bagging one was to stooge around the airfield and wait for them to land.
For the algorithm 👍
Cheers Jim, the algorithm thanks you as do I!
Hi Gary can you recommend a kit to start again as I seem to have lost my mojo, any help is appreciated thanks.
Hi John, to really go back to basics (which we should all do from time to time anyway) then the new Airifx Spitfire Vc starter set is good - their code is A55001. It's the one with the stand included. It is a nice fitting kit, so you get a decent result, but it has some detail you can exploit practicing panel washes, decals setting and so on. Without anything more than what's in the box you can build a nice Spitfire. You'll get your mojo back in no time!
I’d also add the Red Arrows hawk. Mostly one colour and was an easy and fun build.
One thing I started feeling guilty about recently, the amount of sprues I'm chucking out it's absolutely ridiculous! Never used to think about it bit now building alot and full interior armour kit's the amount gets in its 70s plus! I've only got the blue n brown ♻️ bins and the plant for recycling is miles away from me not easy to get to source guilt will have to stay just now!
Some kits, like the Vulcan, produce insane amounts of plastic waste. We are really lucky that plastics are recycled as part of the normal pick-up. Would I be bothered if I had to go to the tip (by appointment only at the moment...)? Probably not.
I cannot find the V2022 tooling version anywhere (it is not on the Airfix website). All I can find is the A02109 version. Can anyone point me to somewhere selling the V2022 version please (though not e-bay)? Is there a difference between the two kits? Thanks.
Are you confusing V2022 with a product code? The Tempest V 2022 is the 2022 kit of the Tempest Mark 5. AFAIK you have the correct code as A02109, which is available on the Airfix site and elsewhere.
@@garys_stuff Hello Gary, thanks for answering. You are absolutely right, that is what I have done! I have now ordered the A02109 Tempest, based solely on your excellent and informative video. Great build. Look forward to watching more. 😃
@@blowingfree6928 glad that's sorted out - I need to be a bit clearer in my titles!!!
It's a pretty nice kit. But it's no better than the typhoon from quite a few years ago.
Haven't made that one (yet??) - I'll look out for it.
I’m building a airfix new tool tempest best kit of 2022 you should build airfix 1/48 mustang Iv
Well, you never know what is coming up - I'm really getting into 1/48...
Nice! Oh boy would I love to see you build a Seafury! *hint *hint :-P
Well, you really never know what might be on my to-buy list at the moment and the Sea Fury is my favourite aircraft of all time....
@@garys_stuff I worked for many years with a retired commercial airline pilot who served during the Korean War and and his brother flew the Seafury. He told me so many cool stories from that time in his life. 😁
This looks a very poor moulding, Gary. I have built both the 109E4 and Typhoon from Airfix in this scale, and they were fantastic.
The pilot is an example of the softness, but i also noted the softness of rivets on the leading edge of the wings. Very poor, and I won't be getting this kit.
I am a fan of Airfix, but I'll be giving this a miss.