1/72 Sea Fury F10

[Bedders]

Morning All,

 

I'm pleased to say that I've finished my 1/72 Sea Fury. It's mostly the Trumpeter kit, but modified with a bit of scratchbuilding and embellished with a few parts from the Special Hobby kit. A long project that almost didn't make it to the end but I'm glad it did. Modifications, from bow to stern, were:

• Using the Special Hobby propeller (it's slightly better thank the puny-looking Tumpeter offering, and the Airwaves white metal one is now impossible to find)
• Rescribing some of the panel lines on the cowling and making the three cowling catches each side out of plastic card)
• A lot of work to improve the area around the cooling 'gills' behind the exhaust area (both Trumpeter and Special Hobby get this badly wrong)
• A Pavla cockpit set, and an Eduard late Spitfire gyro gunsignt
• Polishing off the seam running down the  middle the sliding canopy
• Making the wings in the unfolded state, so filling amd rescribing the fold lines
• A bit of work in the wheelbays, and moving the undercarriage legs outboard to the correct position
• Using the Special Hobby main legs and wheels
• Sanding off the bulges on the main wheel doors
• Scratchbuilding the small finishing doors out of plastic card (the kit ones are too thick to look decent)
• Adding extensions to the aileron trim tabs (which may or may not be correct for a Mk 10...)
• Opening up the external cockput step and handhold on the fuselage
• Shortening the arrestor hook for a Mk 10

 

So it was quite a lot of work. The Extra Dark Sea Grey is Xtracrylix, and the Sky is Tamiya. Roundels came from an Airfix Spitfire 22 kit, serials and JR tail code from Xtradecal Sea Fury sheet, big fuselage numbers from a generic Xtradecal sheet (the bespoke Sea Fury sheet ones are too big), and stencils from Print Scale.  The latter are a bit hit & miss but the best I could find. But enough chatter, here are some photos:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here you can see where I've moved the legs outboard, withe the jacks no longer fitting into the mounting holes in the wheel bay. This area might have been Hawker Yellow rather than sky, but no bother.

 

 

Two photos of the subject:

 

 

 

Here is the original Trumpeter shape around the cooling gills:

 

 

And my effort to correct it:

 

 

The Pavla Cockpit is nice:

 

 

Hope you like it. 

 

Justin

 

 

Edited April 7, 2019 by Bedders

[rob85]

She looks a treat, love the sea fury 

 

Rob

[Hairtrigger]

Perfection....  😁 

[Pat C]

Great looking Sea Fury and I like the improvements you have made.

 

Pat

[Hobo]

Very nice.

[Courageous]

Lovely job, well done.

 

Stuart

[stevehnz]

Nice that Justin, I'm keen to do one in that scheme sometime too & your observations are very useful.

Steve.

[Seahawk]

Very nice.  And thank you for the checklist of things to look at when I come to tackle my Trumpeter Sea Fury.

[RidgeRunner]

A beautiful machine and a beautiful build mate

 

Martin

 

[Winenut]

Wow!

 

Fantastic version of an aircraft that just keep screaming at me........build one!!! 

 

Really well done 

 

Cheers

 

Bruce

[JamesP]

Very nice rendition. This is my favourite scheme on the Sea Fury. I did '106' myself from the Special Hobby kit. 

 

[F-32]

Love it, very smart indeed

[Navy Bird]

Nice work! I love the lines of the Sea Fury, and you've done well to fix the issues with the Trumpeter kit. Kit-bashing between Trumpy and Special Hobby was my plan until I acquired the Aki kit. You've proven that it can be done - beautiful!  

 

Cheers,

Bill

[Cookenbacher]

I'm late to the party. Wonderful build Justin, a treat for my weary eyes.