Swiftly and with style?

Maciej Bellos
Following!!!

Łukasz Gliński
Welcome Maciej. I managed to fix the hole behind the cockpit, later on it turned out the price was too low front of the cockpit, including the gunsight.

Łukasz Gliński
Have to put this on hold. Somehow I reached the FUBAR state with the canopy, need a vacu replacement. Thus I need to wait till my next shopping in the Netherlands. Still wondering how I have made that hole... 🙁

Łukasz Gliński
Reinforcements have arrived - vacu canopy is there. Finished spraying underside today, love that colour! 🙂

Oleg Bogolei
Very nice progress, as usually)

Cuajete
I was missing this job. Following!

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks, just finished masking the blue part 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Sprayed (nose fix was necessary), sealed, stencilled and marked.
To be continued after the summer break...

Mirko Römer
Successful evening 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Indeed 😄

Andy Ball
Wanna follow this Swift before it goes South for winter!

Łukasz Gliński
You should get one too, very nice kit if you avoid breaking the canopy😉
Airfix made my day once they released it 🙂

Andy Ball
Looks like the fuselage was a bit tricky going together?

Łukasz Gliński
Not so much. If you mean the exhaust pipe, it's designed this way.

Andy Ball
picture no. 3?

Łukasz Gliński
Dry-fitting as far as I remember, but penetration glue solved the problem 🙂

Thomas Kolb
I completely missed this one, but it sure looks nice! Apart from the first canopy... oops. If you don't mind me asking, what did you do, sanded it with a dremel?

Łukasz Gliński
Well, at first I thought it's scratched and tried polishing it. First using some polishing cloths, then switched to my Lidl-branded-dremel-like tool. It turned however it was perforated already 🙁

Cuajete
Łukasz, you can try to request a spare here. For now maybe there is some problem due to the current pandemic, but you could try 😉

airfix.com/uk-en/contact

Łukasz Gliński
Thx for the hint, I did try it, but the answer was "we have run out of this part"

playtime 222
Ah the Swift. This is what happens when you leave a Hunter and an Attacker in the same hangar unsupervised 😄 Nice job too.

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks, your comment made my day 😄

Łukasz Gliński
Not so swiftly, but finished yesterday - enjoy the pics 🙂

Christian Bruer
Very nice work and finish 👍

Guy Rump
Beautiful model and pics, love the hangar setting 🙂

Thomas Kolb
Super nice build and great finish! Your photos are always very good BTW, I really like the natural light setting. A question, did you use your own masking tape for the camo, or some precut masking templates? Very clean and crisp lines.

Łukasz Gliński
Many thanks for your comments mates, makes me wanna build more lovely new-Airfix kits.
@Thomas: I didn't use any templates, just some blutack and masking tape.

Cuajete
Very nice model and very nice pics, Łukasz. I like specially pic number 36. Congrats!
How you have solved the canopy problem?

Łukasz Gliński
Gracias señor! I had to order the vacu replacement.

Daniel Klink
Ah the result is more than nice and absolutely convincing...👍
Always found this 50's RAF birds very appealing....
BTW Waiting til today for the Canopy replacement fo my Lightning...

Łukasz Gliński
I know that feeling 😄 I can fully recommend this kit once you start thinking of building it.

Andy Ball
She'll be flying south for winter soon!, looks great!!

playtime 222
That turned out great 😄

Gary Dahlström
Very tidy work! Great job!

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks a lot mates, glad to see you like it 🙂