Popular Post russ c 10,187 Posted January 4, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2019 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 103 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Telboy3510 1,020 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Absolutely brilliant and well staged! Having attempted rigging a biplane and failed miserably I really do admire you folks who pull it off. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
GREG DESTEC 5,233 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Beautiful Swordfish Russ, Very well presented too. Lovely restrained weathering. Cheers Greg 1 Link to post Share on other sites
WhitleyZ6743 134 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Very nice 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Orion 1,150 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Hello Russ, Stunning "Stringbag" model and what an photography. Regards, Orion. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Silver Fox 3,801 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Looks like a well used machine, tremendous work . 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Grey Beema 3,021 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Lovely Stringbag there Russ. Very effective looking. Really nicely finished, well used aircraft.. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Frank083 215 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Lovely Swordfish! Very well done & nicely displayed! Frank 1 Link to post Share on other sites
John Masters 14,846 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Brilliant! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Kilroy1988 195 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Very well done, and armed to the gills at that! -Gregory 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Greg Law 4,970 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 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. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
RMCS 5,668 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Fantastic 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Greg Law 4,970 Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) 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, 2019 by Greg Law 1 Link to post Share on other sites
JWM 13,335 Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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 2 Link to post Share on other sites
russ c 10,187 Posted January 5, 2019 Author Share Posted January 5, 2019 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 1 Link to post Share on other sites
russ c 10,187 Posted January 5, 2019 Author Share Posted January 5, 2019 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 1 Link to post Share on other sites
ForestFan 1,917 Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Very nicely done 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Uncle Pete 1,508 Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 22 hours ago, russ c said: if I bother you The only bother is my jealousy! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
stevej60 37,317 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Cracking Swordfish Russ,weathering look's superb and scheme a bit different too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
pierre Giustiniani 1,172 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Wonderful !!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
IanC 3,172 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 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... 1 Link to post Share on other sites
tonyot 32,739 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 (edited) 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, 2019 by tonyot 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Calum 4,123 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Really nuce work there. Love the photography, very atmospheric 1 Link to post Share on other sites
phildagreek 3,538 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 That's rather nice Russ, well done! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
podciech 338 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 beautiful, I'm impressed, the photos have a great atmosphere 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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