gishuk Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Made a start on this build a few weeks ago, my first all resin kit The Sea Fury is my favourite piston fighter and this kit is apparently one of the best, so it seems like a good one to start with. Spent quite a bit of time getting the fit roughly there on the major components before actually sticking anything at all together, so there hasnt been anything worth showing, but now im happy with how its going to fit together I have built the cockpit and the engine. The cockpit on this is the best ive seen, there seems to be nothing at all missing from the real thing. Shame you'll hardly see any of it in the end. Heres the cockpit painted in its opened state. And then stuck together to form the tub, giving an idea how little of this will be visible in the end. Next job is to stick it into the fuselage, brace it in there to make sure theres no rage inducing movement of it later on, which would be impossible to fix, and then get the lower wing joined on. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winenut Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Great start. Looking forward to this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony C Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Nice looking cockpit, got one myself so will come along for the ride... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobinsonh Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Lovely progress, I have finished one as FAA and then have one other 2/3 built as the 2 Seater and 1 remaining to be a Canadian Sea Fury. I never did a WIP on Britmodeller but I actually found the model easier than many plastic kits. It was my second all resin model after the MDC Tyhoon. I hope you do not mind me commenting but I did contact the FAA museum with regards to the seat cover colour and the belts. They said the belts were blue and the seat quilting a green (although it is now longer that colour in their aircraft due to ageing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gishuk Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Well I have the seat padding in green so im 50% right I think once the fuselage is together it should be straightforward enough, but getting that correctly spaced to match the cowling without creating alot of work fillering the gaps could be a little tricky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham T Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Keep the updates coming. I've got this in the stash & it looks beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedders Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 After your Hunter I know this is going to be good. I'll take tips for my 1/72 Sea Fury if that's possible... Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F1Boomer Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 (edited) I went to Reno for the Air Races last fall and was allowed to get some pictures of Dreadnaught, Argonaught and 924. Really looking forward to your build of this kit. Edited February 9, 2016 by F1Boomer 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 (edited) I have always wanted to build this kit. Just need to find one first! My all-time favourite piston-engined aircraft, bar none. P.S. My word, those Reno cockpits are clean! Great pic of the engine. Edited February 10, 2016 by Ex-FAAWAFU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gishuk Posted February 10, 2016 Author Share Posted February 10, 2016 One day i'd love to go to the Reno races, lucky bugger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gishuk Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 The cockpit has now vanished into the black hole of the fuselage. With that secured in with some bracing under the tub Ive started looking at the wing and fuselage join. Bit of work to do here still, I have it fitting properly at the cowling but still need to fill that gap with plasticard strips to give it a strong joining surface. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobinsonh Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 I have three of these and have never seen the gap that you have. I have 2 singles seater and 1 twin seater. Excuse the poor quality photos and all the dust. If you want these removed from your thread then just let me know. Single seater - folded wing set but finished unfolded (long story) Twin seater - stock wing in the box. Single seater - stock wing. This is one of the very early models hence the gray resin fuselage. All three of these had a snug fit between fuselage and wing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gishuk Posted February 19, 2016 Author Share Posted February 19, 2016 I contacted Paul Fisher about the size of this gap and he agrees that it is beyond what should be there and is going to sort me out with some new parts in a couple of weeks when he does another run on some refreshed moulds. Puts the build on hold for a little bit, but I cant really ask for better customer service than that so not a problem at all. Cro, no problem having those photos, that singe seater looks great and crying out to be finished! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobinsonh Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 I contacted Paul Fisher about the size of this gap and he agrees that it is beyond what should be there and is going to sort me out with some new parts in a couple of weeks when he does another run on some refreshed moulds. Puts the build on hold for a little bit, but I cant really ask for better customer service than that so not a problem at all. Cro, no problem having those photos, that singe seater looks great and crying out to be finished! That is great to hear. Will make life a lot easier I am sure. Paul Fisher is an amazing guy - I have a Panther model that has been sitting on the shelf of doom for so long that my wife threw the kit box (with all of the attendant parts not fitted) away. This was the canopy, photo etch, wheels and U/C, weapon pylons, drop tanks, rockets, bombs etc. I sent a note to Paul asking if I could buy these parts off him as this was obviously my fault. He sent it all through to me with no charge at all. Love the guy and his products and will be buying some more soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJP Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 I recently posted my attempt at the Fisher Sea Fury on Britmodeller so it is interesting to see how others tackled this model and the nice models they produce - My Sea Fury had a gap that needed to be filled to sort out the wing and cowling alignment and these photos show how I was able to align it -- I also thought that I might mention that I dropped my almost completed model twice because I found the resin heavy and slippery so I made a jig to hold the model while I worked on it - cheers Chris 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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