Bless my soul it’s a Fairey Firefly in 1/48 by Trumpeter RFI @ Last!!!

[The Spadgent]

Good morning and welcome to the RFI of my 
Fairey Firefly 1/48 

by Trumpeter

I finished the build a while ago but the weather has been so awful I couldn’t take pics.  We had a lovely sunny day yesterday so decided to catch up on some RFIs I had outstanding. 
The Trumpeter kit has some real hate but overall I think it’s a great kit. If you’re willing to put in a little time and effort (That's what it’s all about right❤️) you can get a nice result.

For this build I build and 3D printed some cockpit walls, wheels, nose vents, intake covers and cannons. I think that was it? 🤔 Scratch built some new flaps the dog ate from plasticard and fixed the rest with Sanding, painting and care. The decals were mostly from the kit but the roundels were changed as the colours were a bit off. 
The WIP thread is here for those who are curious. 

 

Not loads of pics but at least they’re here.

Hope you like em.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 That’s your lot. I hope you like the pics and if you followed the WIP. Thanks for tagging along.

 

As always all comments and questions welcome.

 

Happy Modelling Chums.

Johnny. ☀️

 

[RWestcott]

Now that's a nice Firefly, lov3 the paint work and the detail.

Well done Johnny.

[Marcello Rosa]

Excellent!

[perdu]

Yep John, that's damned fine mate.

 

Great WIP massive RFI too, lovely jubbly.

 

 

 

 

 

right colour too

[giemme]

An excellent model with an outstanding camouflage paint job!  

 

And lots of custard to top it up     

 

Ciao

[F-32]

Beautiful work 👏

[Neil.C]

That's lovely! 

[georgeusa]

The entire model is so impressive.  What is most impressive though is how well you did with the yellow undercolor in making it work and weather so well.  Hate to paint yellow and always am in awe when someone can do an excellent job on the color.  Thanks for sharing.

[Marcello Rosa]

17 hours ago, georgeusa said:

The entire model is so impressive.  What is most impressive though is how well you did with the yellow undercolor in making it work and weather so well.  Hate to paint yellow and always am in awe when someone can do an excellent job on the color.  Thanks for sharing.

Agreed!

[Homer]

Beautiful model, well done 👏. 

[tomprobert]

That's nice, that is. The yellow certainly makes a very eye-catching scheme - one not seen all that often. 

 

Tom

[The Spadgent]

On 25/05/2023 at 09:24, RWestcott said:

Now that's a nice Firefly, lov3 the paint work and the detail.

Well done Johnny.

Thank you. I loved this kit at first sight. I was a bit disappointed ted when I read the reviews but you can get her into shape. 🫶

On 25/05/2023 at 09:26, Marcello Rosa said:

Excellent!

Thanks. 

On 25/05/2023 at 09:31, perdu said:

Yep John, that's damned fine mate.

 

Great WIP massive RFI too, lovely jubbly.

 

 

 

 

 

right colour too

Thanks Bill. 😍

On 25/05/2023 at 10:45, giemme said:

An excellent model with an outstanding camouflage paint job!  

 

And lots of custard to top it up     

 

Ciao

To kind G. I do love custard. 😇

22 hours ago, F-32 said:

Beautiful work 👏

Thanks.

19 hours ago, Neil.C said:

That's lovely! 

Fankoo. 

19 hours ago, georgeusa said:

The entire model is so impressive.  What is most impressive though is how well you did with the yellow undercolor in making it work and weather so well.  Hate to paint yellow and always am in awe when someone can do an excellent job on the color.  Thanks for sharing.

Thanks. It’s taken a few attempts to get it right. I find a brown pre shade is the key. And no I g a little orange with the yellow helps with the warmth. 🙂

1 hour ago, Marcello Rosa said:

Agreed!

Thanks. 😃

1 hour ago, Homer said:

Beautiful model, well done 👏. 

🥰

1 hour ago, tomprobert said:

That's nice, that is. The yellow certainly makes a very eye-catching scheme - one not seen all that often. 

 

Tom

Thanks Tom. I do try and do unusual schemes if I can. 🥸

[wellsprop]

Beautiful! 😍

 

All the extra work has paid off, the scheme is lovely too

[woody37]

Cracking build Johnny, big fan of the Firefly and you've done it a great justice. I often think it looks like a bog spitfire from certain angles!

 

Cheers

Neil

[Pantherhawk27263]

Beautiful work!!! It looks amazing!

[Spitfire31]

Spectacular model!

 

Maybe the photo angle is misleading _ but, did Trumpeter forget the wing dihedral? 🤔

 

Brilliant finish…

 

Kind regards,

Joachim

[John Laidlaw]

Johnny, that's beautiful!

[Whofan]

This is a super build, the work that's gone into it is clear.

 

I hpe that when I get my Special Hobby 1/48th Fireflies (Mk. 1 and Mk. 5) done, they look as good as yours.

 

A couple of questions if I may;  Despite going throught the WIP, and if I've missed it you may say so ( ! ), the colour scheme you chose represents which theatre of ops? It looks like a desert scheme to me, with a yellow undersides?

 

And the red patches just to the rear of the wheel wells, what do they signify?

 

 

[Col Walter E Kurtz]

Spad this is something else. Really like the colour scheme.. great stuff! Well done and thank you for showing this. The effort you put in shows in the finished prof=duct! Regards,Andy

[Fritag]

Typically stylish build Johnny.  I’ve sort of exhausted all the compliments I have available in my vocabulary to describe your painting and finishing skills.  I need to find a thesaurus….

[Mig88]

Lovely!

 

Miguel

[AliGauld]

Yet another piece of art from you.

Fantastic finish on this one.

Thanks very much for the tip about the brown preshade under the yellow. I'll be pinching that one.

 

 

Cheers,

Alistair

[VolkerR.]

Awesome finish!

[The Spadgent]

On 26/05/2023 at 11:33, wellsprop said:

Beautiful! 😍

 

All the extra work has paid off, the scheme is lovely too

Thank you. 🤩

On 26/05/2023 at 16:05, woody37 said:

Cracking build Johnny, big fan of the Firefly and you've done it a great justice. I often think it looks like a bog spitfire from certain angles!

 

Cheers

Neil

Thanks Neil. 🙌

On 26/05/2023 at 17:20, Pantherhawk27263 said:

Beautiful work!!! It looks amazing!

Thank you.

On 26/05/2023 at 20:11, Spitfire31 said:

Spectacular model!

 

Maybe the photo angle is misleading _ but, did Trumpeter forget the wing dihedral? 🤔

 

Brilliant finish…

 

Kind regards,

Joachim

Thanks. The dihedral is there but it’s not super pronounced. Maybe it could have been more but I’m darned if it’s changing now. 😉

On 26/05/2023 at 20:58, John Laidlaw said:

Johnny, that's beautiful!

Thank you.

On 26/05/2023 at 22:16, Whofan said:

This is a super build, the work that's gone into it is clear.

 

I hpe that when I get my Special Hobby 1/48th Fireflies (Mk. 1 and Mk. 5) done, they look as good as yours.

 

A couple of questions if I may;  Despite going throught the WIP, and if I've missed it you may say so ( ! ), the colour scheme you chose represents which theatre of ops? It looks like a desert scheme to me, with a yellow undersides?

 

And the red patches just to the rear of the wheel wells, what do they signify?

 

 

Thanks.

as for the scheme.

it says.

” Initially used for trials and had its undersurfaces painted yellow. It later entered squadron service ” also. “ This was amongst the first aircraft to enter front line service with 1770 squadron in 1943 “

 

As for the red patches I have no idea. They were in my ref so I popped em on. 🙌

 

On 27/05/2023 at 00:19, Col Walter E Kurtz said:

Spad this is something else. Really like the colour scheme.. great stuff! Well done and thank you for showing this. The effort you put in shows in the finished prof=duct! Regards,Andy

Thank you far too kind.

On 27/05/2023 at 10:25, Fritag said:

Typically stylish build Johnny.  I’ve sort of exhausted all the compliments I have available in my vocabulary to describe your painting and finishing skills.  I need to find a thesaurus….

Shucks. 🤗

On 27/05/2023 at 14:50, Mig88 said:

Lovely!

 

Miguel

Fankoo.

On 29/05/2023 at 13:42, AliGauld said:

Yet another piece of art from you.

Fantastic finish on this one.

Thanks very much for the tip about the brown preshade under the yellow. I'll be pinching that one.

 

 

Cheers,

Alistair

Glad to be of service and Thankyou. 

On 29/05/2023 at 15:51, VolkerR. said:

Awesome finish!

To kind thanks. 🙌🤩

[Whofan]

13 hours ago, The Spadgent said:

Thanks.

as for the scheme.

it says.

” Initially used for trials and had its undersurfaces painted yellow. It later entered squadron service ” also. “ This was amongst the first aircraft to enter front line service with 1770 squadron in 1943 “

 

As for the red patches I have no idea. They were in my ref so I popped em on. 🙌

 

Thanks for that. I'm glad someone else sees things in references or profiles and puts them on!