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Hi all, Just started the Airfix Sea Fury as with most kits started at the cockpit .. I must say the cockpit looks very nice and most instruments are a separate items to ease placement over the raised detail. These are small so be careful here !! I had a case of no plastic where it should be, this is the seat support and it misses the lower bar.. And this is how it should look It isn't a big problem as I still have the upper bar and hole where the seat is placed. And in this way it is still placed very solid, the lower one is not to be seen anyway in this cramped all black cockpit!! I am still waiting for a seat harnas that I ordered as the kit doesn't provide one. The construction is relatively easy but the instructions call for closing up the fuselage in order to construct the wing in good order.. But I am still in need for the harnas before I close it up so I decided to construct all sub assembly's like the engine and wings I also glued the cockpit tub in the fuselage and leaving the left frame of the tub loose in the frame during my test fittings. This is the wing strengthening construction. in the pic below it is in place..be carefull aligning the parts and test fit a lot before you glue it in place because so many loose parts can be fiddly.. On the plus side if you like to fondle your plastic a lot you will be in heaven Here I have the joints of the wings filled with thinned putty as those joints look out of place because on some places they are to deep or leave some gaps. I thin my putty with Tamiya extra thin glue in order to get the line more consistent. The wheel wells are painted in azure blue as I have seen this on Iraqi Fury's, Airfix calls for linen which is correct but Sea Fury's seem to have been painted in the underside colours as well!! The Humbrol 157 Azure has been a color that is often subject of discussion to be of a incorrect hue but I have seen a Pakistani color pic of a Fury that was painted in the same scheme and it looked the same to me as the 157 with only being it a tat lighter in real life! I allready did put a few drops of white in the Azure. Painted the spinner.. And again a testfit, I did a little sanding on the fuselage fillets and lower part of the wing wich mates up with fuselage in order to get a good fit/sit. As it looks for now I am not in need of filler with the upper wing and fuselage joint! The engine was already testfitted and fits perfectly well, albeit not shown in my pictures. The engine cowling needs a little love and care. Did sand away some detail in order to get a proper fit but no worry's here as they are going to reinstated.. This left side was a little deformed with some loss of detail on the aft cowling ring !! The right side was a lot better.. Frontal view of the cowling. So far it is a very lovely kit to built with some nice features and I am enjoing this build a lot, it already raised some eyebrows when I took it to the club this week in this state.. Cheers, Jan