This will be my half of the RAF100 anniversary tribute build with Andy building the Sopwith Snipe completing the other half.

Firstly a little bit about the subject.

The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine, canard-delta wing, multirole fighter.[ The Typhoon was designed originally as an air superiority fighter and is manufactured by a consortium of Alenia Aermacchi (Leonardo since 2017), Airbus, and BAE Systems that conducts the majority of the project through a joint holding company, Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH formed in 1986.
The aircraft's development effectively began in 1983 with the Future European Fighter Aircraft programme, a multinational collaboration among the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Disagreements over design authority and operational requirements led France to leave the consortium to develop the Dassault Rafale independently. A technology demonstration aircraft, the British Aerospace EAP, first took flight on 6 August 1986; the first prototype of the finalised Eurofighter made its first flight on 27 March 1994. The aircraft's name, Typhoon, was adopted in September 1998; the first production contracts were also signed that year.
Political issues in the partner nations significantly protracted the Typhoon's development; the sudden end of the Cold War reduced European demand for fighter aircraft, and debate existed over the aircraft's cost and work share. The Typhoon entered operational service in 2003; it has entered service with the air forces of Austria, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and Saudi Arabia. The air forces of Oman, Kuwait and Qatar are export customers, bringing the procurement total to 599 aircraft as of 2016.
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a highly agile aircraft, designed to be a supremely effective dogfighter in combat.Later production aircraft have been increasingly better equipped to undertake air-to-surface strike missions and to be compatible with an increasing number of different armaments and equipment, including Storm Shadow and Brimstone. The Typhoon had its combat debut during the 2011 military intervention in Libya with the UK's Royal Air Force and the Italian Air Force, performing aerial reconnaissance and ground-strike missions. The type has also taken primary responsibility for air-defence duties for the majority of customer nations.

The Revell kit has been around since 2009 and generally considered to be more accurate than the Trumpeter one although they both have good and bad points. There are several aftermarket accessories available and some will be used on the build as well as aftermarket decals which will provide a more fitting scheme for the tribute.

Some nice parts to go with a nice kit Al look forward to the build

Look forward to the build Al, great choice.....

Regards

Alan

Nice looking kit you’ve got there. It’s good to see another Delta wing build. Think you’ll enjoy it’s build as much as we will watching

Nice kit Al, plenty of parts to get stuck in with. Looking forward to you progress.

Mark

Starting to build the seat and cockpit but found it a little lacking in detail so have decided to remedy that with the Aires upgrade and while I was at it I also got the undercarriage bay and the exhaust set and some Airscale cockpit gauge/screen decals.

As a lot of builders of this kit have already discovered the canopy and windshield suffer from having a seam line down the middle of them so some work will be needed to hopefully clean it up sufficiently.

More soon

Al

Nice start Al, can’t believe they put a seam line in the place it is. I’m sure you’ll sort it out though.

Mark

Thanks for looking in and the advice gents will get the micromesh out and give it a whirl.

Al

Made some progress on this and have removed some plastic detail from the wheel bays in order to fit the more detailed Aires ones. The second pic shows what undercarriage bays come with the kit and the third shows the new bays attached. The next couple of pics show the Aires cockpit [lighter colour] in comparison with the Revell one. I have had to modify the the kit slightly by removing some plastic in order to accommodate the cockpit coaming. The last pic shows the Pilot figure from Scalemates who will pose next to his Typhoon for the the rest of the build I will refer to him as Rupert

More soon

Al