Pauls Airfix Sea Fury FB11 Export

[Quax]

Thinking I'm gonna go Dutch on this one - just need seat belts otherwise OOTB



























Cheers all, themselves as dies'll be the lucky ones!

Paul

[DBMiller]

Nice one!

[aur0ra145]

Very cool kit! I'm a big Sea Fury fan

[Stokesy44]

Nice looking kit and a good choice of schemes

[Tomcat64]

Nice choices all around - there's something very business-like about the Sea Fury

[Garion77]

Nice choice ! I love this kit ! Would like to get one for myself. Heard good things about the kit, for an airfix one

[Quax]

Cheers guys

So bit of a start today, there is noticeable flash on some of the delicate parts and mold line which is a little disappointing for a new kit



This is the pedals arrangement and as you can see not great

Still I pushed on and did a bit of assembly and got the office primed



Cheers for looking

Paul

[Twokidsnosleep]

Love the livery of these birds, very classy appearance indeed


I do like my birds flashy, just not my model kits

[RangerNeil]

Cheers guys

So bit of a start today, there is noticeable flash on some of the delicate parts and mold line which is a little disappointing for a new kit



This is the pedals arrangement and as you can see not great

Still I pushed on and did a bit of assembly and got the office primed



Cheers for looking

Paul

Shame about the flash and mould lines - there should be no excuse for that in this day & age.
But I'm sure you will overcome these issues as usual.

[Quax]

Quick update of the office with the Eduard seatbelts added





Don't quote me on the colours of dials and switches I simply tried a variety of colours otherwise it's all invisible once the fuselage is together. There are decals if required for the dash.

Cheers

Paul

[Garion77]

wow the amount of flash is impressive ! and as you said for a recent kit... that' disappointing. And I'm also am because I had heard good things about this kit. Hope it still goes well ! nice cockpit !

[Tomcat64]

That's a real shame with the amount of flash they've managed to pack onto those small parts, but the cockpit has come together really nicely regardless

[aur0ra145]

Looks like the cockpit went together well!

[Quax]

Well as usual with these I get wrapped up and forget to take many photos (plus we now have a new firewall at work.that blocks flickr... So here's what I have so far....

All assembled for priming


Primed with Ultimate white and a coat of Hakata Orange line Sky (beginning to love these paints)


Realcolors dark sea grey added and then masked for tamiya gloss orange




Decals on ready for a light weather





Thanks for looking

Paul

[RangerNeil]

Really comes to life when the decals go on. Its nice to see a different livery from the usual FAA one and the orange nose really stands out.

[digger303]

Looks real nice and the paint is smick.

[Garion77]

WOW ! the paint job came out really great ! Nice job !
How was the fit ? Since they was lots of flash in the interior hope the fuselage went down well together.

Not supposed to be on a modeling forum at work that's why there's a firewall
But you know what ! I'm lucky enough to work from home full time since the pandemic so I can always go on the forum or even squeeze time for a few minutes of modeling

Take care

[psmithmags]

Looks great and the paint job is really impressive. Glad to see that the flash never hindered you. Looking forward to more pics (if you remember)

Paul (thinking about Amateur Paul,to distinguish between all of us Paul's )

[Tomcat64]

Nice work Paul - that paintwork looks really clean & crisp - cracking job mate

[Quax]

Thanks for your comments guys and here's one more photo for you (very definitely not an amateur) Paul



I've done the panel lining, I've found one by a company called Modellers and its a black brown which looks a little less stark than black. That being said there's an awful lot of rivets on the tail and I'm not sure of the look I also put an exhaust smudge in with starship filth. Just a matt coat along with the wing lights and pitots to do now

Cheers

Paul

[psmithmags]

Cheers Paul , the panel lining has come up great. To be honest, I think the tail looks great as well. Cracking job.

Paul.

[Quax]

So it's now completed, it was an enjoyable kit to build that required a bit of thought to make life easy but otherwise OK.

I've added a picture here of it up against a mk.ix Spit and you can see the size of the beast!





Cheers Paul

[digger303]

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