stevej60 Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Hi folks,after the disaster with the corsair and a week away on holiday,back into the fray with smers boxing of someone else,s fulmar in a 1/72 scale.looks like a very well moulded kit,excellent canopy and decals,I will leave it,s accuracy to others but it looks like a fulmar to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintsPhil Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Look forward to seeing you tackle this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Its not a bad kit at all. Not 21st Century tooling but is nice. First appeared in a Vista Box. also by Revell and Airfix!! I think I still have mine built from the Vista edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 I have this kit in the almost-completed pile and it's actually quite a nice kit. Accuracy wise it's also good. Detail is unfortunately sparse but some scratchbuilding can do wonder. The only modification I did to the shape of the kit was to angle the fin as in the real Fulmar this was not aligned with the fuselage midline but slightly canted. Looking forward to seeing what you'll do with this one ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard B. Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 A number of Smer 1/72 kits are by Heller, maybe this is one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seahawk Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 A number of Smer 1/72 kits are by Heller, maybe this is one of them. No, as stated above, it was originally produced by Vista. Based on the quality of the Fulmar kit, I would have liked to have seen more from them (ISTR they advertised some future plans) but they seemed to disappear after the first kit. Mind you, the Antares Curtiss Seahawk looked as if it might have been by the same people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 A number of Smer 1/72 kits are by Heller, maybe this is one of them. No, this one is'nt, see Pauls post #3. Its a nice kit though, I've a couple, one Vista & one Airfix. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard B. Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 (edited) I've never heard of Vista before. Thanks. I've been considering some of the 1/72 Smer kits, such as their 1930's French bombers, which are Heller. Edited August 25, 2013 by Richard B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 1930's French bombers, which are Heller. & reasonably decent kits too by all accounts. They seem to need a bit of work on the interiors being a bit bare in this area but I've seen some that have made up really nicely. I think they're quite decent value for money as well as being the only game in town for some of them. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 Progress at last,ready to join fuselage halves together not a lot can be seen especially after the glazing is painted but I added some "spurious" decals to as a bit of interest to what can be seen,the wings are assembled so more to follow soon, thanks for looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VG 33 Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Another useful subject because I have the Revell clone. Patrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Good work so far, this is a nice kit to build, I did the Airfix one last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Good luck with your build All the best Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted September 16, 2013 Author Share Posted September 16, 2013 Good work so far, this is a nice kit to build, I did the Airfix one last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Good luck with your build All the best Chris Thanks Chris,sadly it all ended in tears!after painting and decaling I totally messed up my usual method of weathering and my attempt at sorting it made it worse so this and my FAA build both ended in disaster.Oh well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard B. Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Sorry to hear about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted September 17, 2013 Author Share Posted September 17, 2013 Sorry to hear about this. Thanks Richard,I mixed a wash of black/water/washing up liquid into the panel lines as a sludge but instead of removing it as soon as it dried I had to go out and left it till the evening.I must have got the ratio wrong and no way would it clean off and the more I tried the worse the disaster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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