Revell’s Little Big Kit

By Colin ‘Flying’ Pickett

Kit No: 04568

Scale: 1/48

Type: Injection Moulded Plastic

Manufacturer: Revell GmbH www.revell.de/en

I’ve long hankered after a 1/48 Eurofighter Typhoon in my collection, with only time being the barrier in stopping me realising this ambition, having a couple in my stash of kits weakening my excuses further.

Revell’s kit of the single seat Typhoon arrived in 2006, and is the most up to date kit available of the aircraft, coming in both single and two seat variants in this scale. Italeri also produce a kit of the aircraft in 1/48, with this being a much older offering. The Revell kit is formed of one hundred and forty seven different parts packed into a reasonably large but flimsy box. I have to admit that my kit was bought a good number of years ago, and has sat in the stash waiting for that opportune moment. Revell have recently rereleased the same kit in a Bronze Tiger boxing, so it’s easy enough to get hold of, albeit with Tiger Meet display markings.

Whilst the kit itself comes with a good number of options for RAF aircraft as well as those used in Spain, Germany and Italy, I chose to dip into my decal bank and create an aircraft operated by 6 Squadron RAF, using Xtradecal sheet X48090 RAF 6 Squadron History, which has markings for a Bristol F2B, Hawker Hurricane IID, Phantom FGR.2 and Jaguar GR3, as well as our subject, the Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4.

The Eurofighter Typhoon has been in operational service with the RAF since 2004 with various tranche upgrades during this time, with 6 Squadron becoming operational on the type at RAF Leuchars in 2008.

My reasoning for wanting a 6 Squadron aircraft is simple as a few years ago I was lucky enough to ‘fly’ the simulator in the training suite at RAF Leuchars, and wanted to have a suitable replica of the aircraft I flew in my display case, something to dream upon if you like.