Fairey Swordfish Mk II, 818 NAS, Indian Ocean, 1945

[russ c 7,585]

Hi Everyone,

Hope you don`t mind if I bother you with some photo`s of my latest effort

My attempt at Tamiya`s 1/48 Sworfish Mk II kit

Finished to represent  an aircraft based in India and Ceylon for missions over the Indian Ocean 1944-45

Built mostly from the box, but with a few wire and thread embellishments: 

Made the engine cowling supports and ring, torpedo sight etc from copper wire

the control cables for rudder and elevators from silver thread soaked in Johnsons Klear,

The rigging was done with elastic thread in an attempt to find something that retained some tension better than the nylon thread I usually use

Decals were from a Print+Scale set.

Hope you enjoy, thanks for looking

Cheers Russ

 

[Telboy3510 779]

Absolutely brilliant and well staged! Having attempted rigging a biplane and failed miserably I really do admire you folks who pull it off.

[GREG DESTEC 3,523]

Beautiful Swordfish Russ,

 

Very  well presented too. Lovely restrained weathering.

 

Cheers Greg

[WhitleyZ6743 80]

Very nice

[Orion 754]

Hello Russ,

Stunning "Stringbag" model and what an photography.

Regards, Orion.

[Silver Fox 2,703]

Looks like a well used machine, tremendous work .

[Grey Beema 2,017]

Lovely Stringbag there Russ.  Very effective looking.  Really nicely finished, well used aircraft..

 

 

[Frank083 211]

Lovely Swordfish! Very well done & nicely displayed!

 

Frank

[John D.C. Masters 6,616]

Brilliant!  

[Kilroy1988 190]

Very well done, and armed to the gills at that!

 

-Gregory

[Greg Law 1,288]

Well used Swordfish Russ. Don't know if I would like to fly in that. Great job you have done once again. I was wondering what you were up to.

[RMCS 2,990]

Fantastic 

[Greg Law 1,288]

Russ, I had another look at this plane. The cables look a little out of place with the rest of the model. Really dark and heavy. This is an area I have trouble with. 

Making them a mid grey would help, so they blended in with the rest of the model. Just a thought. The rest of the model is fantastic as usual. 

Edited January 5 by Greg Law

[JWM 9,370]

Very nice result!  

Maybe I omitted this info in some way byt if I can sk - which kit it was? Print+Scale decals with this scheme are in 1/72 (http://www.printscale.org/product_145.html), so is it conversion from Airfix Mk1? If "yes" - this is something I am thniking about to do also. So,  except the immitation of metal surfaces of  lower wing in place of rockets rails are there other changies needed?

BTW  - I have some doubts about this decals set - was it possible in Far East to have still red on roundels from top in 1945? Especially when side roundels had removed red centers?

Best regards and Happy New Year!

J-W

[russ c 7,585]

5 hours ago, Greg Law said:

Russ, I had another look at this plane. The cables look a little out of place with the rest of the model. Really dark and heavy. This is an area I have trouble with. 

Making them a mid grey would help, so they blended in with the rest of the model. Just a thought. The rest of the model is fantastic as usual. 

Cheers Greg, like I said in my post, I tried it as an alternative to nylon thread. An experiment really, I agree they do look too heavy, but painting may make it worse.

Russ

[russ c 7,585]

6 minutes ago, JWM said:

Very nice result!  

Maybe I omitted this info in some way byt if I can sk - which kit it was? Print+Scale decals with this scheme are in 1/72 (http://www.printscale.org/product_145.html), so is it conversion from Airfix Mk1? If "yes" - this is something I am thniking about to do also. So,  except the immitation of metal surfaces of  lower wing in place of rockets rails are there other changies needed?

BTW  - I have some doubts about this decals set - was it possible in Far East to have still red on roundels from top in 1945? Especially when side roundels had removed red centers?

Best regards and Happy New Year!

J-W

Hi J-W,

 Caption under first photo: `My attempt at Tamiya`s 1/48 Sworfish Mk II kit` . I thought about the red centres, but Indian Ocean, near end of war, virtually no air opposition by then, most threat would be ground fire or return fire from the target and the difficulty of painting them over on board aircraft carrier ( HMS Unicorn delivered them ). Also it`s not the first aircraft to be so painted, I`ve seen photo`s of Fireflys in Australia similarly marked.

I couldn`t find a photo of the real thing either so P+S could be right.

Cheers Russ

[ForestFan 1,360]

Very nicely done

[Uncle Pete 1,041]

22 hours ago, russ c said:

if I bother you

The only bother is my jealousy!

[stevej60 24,076]

Cracking Swordfish Russ,weathering look's superb and scheme a bit different too.

[pierre Giustiniani 712]

Wonderful !!!!

[IanC 1,685]

On 1/4/2019 at 10:50 AM, russ c said:

Hi Everyone,

Hope you don`t mind if I bother you with some photo`s of my latest effort

Cheers Russ

 

 

Actually I'm pretty put out that you trespassed on my valuable time to show me your model.

 

Quite superb. One of the best I've seen, I think...

[tonyot 23,632]

Fabulous,..... I`ve always liked this scheme and for it to get the Russ treatment is a real treat,..... you have well and truly smashed it mate,......great job, I love it!

 

Cheers

          Tony

Edited January 6 by tonyot

[Calum 3,040]

Really nuce work there.  Love the photography,  very atmospheric 

[phildagreek 2,698]

That's rather nice Russ, well done!

[podciech 150]

beautiful, I'm impressed, the photos have a great atmosphere