Fairey Swordfish

Olivier That is bringing very old memories back to the surface. Thanks John.

John Heim I love the vintage kits. Thanks for looking

Martin Oostrom You better put those decals in the sun to get rid of the yellowing. Those old chunky kits can be a joy whenever you need some mojo restoration

Alex K Oh! Glad to see that I am (I will be - soon) not the only one to still build the OLD Airfix Stringbag! Following with great interest!

LucLuke B Watching. That one is on my list but in 1:72.

Olivier So real... When do we go for a ride ?

Redcat Bravo!

Soeren . Fantastic work!

Lochsa_River A stunning piece of modeling art...congratulations.

Neuling A masterpiece.

Kerry COX Your attention to detail is well noted. A true work of fine scale modelling to be sure.

Roland Sachsenhofer Just perfect! That is tremendous...!

Spanjaard you certainly rose to the challenge of getting the black right.... amazing.

Spanjaard stunning

LucLuke B Very interesting. More photos to come I hope.

Alec K Wow. This will be spectacular. Can you describe how you achieved the color texture on the engine ring (image 20)? Chipping, salt technique?

Aleksandar Šekularac Thanks much! Don't know if you've seen it but there is also an album with pictures of the finished model here:
Black Fish Complete | Album by Seki (1:48)
Alec, yes the texture on the collector ring is achieved using chipping fluid (Ammo Mig) between several shades of Xtreme Metal (AK) paints.

Alec K Ok, thank you. Looks very good. The finished model is fantastic

gorbygould Excellent work!

Olivier Good old memories...

Ken Kolenovsky Ooohh.....this will be a treat! I have never even considered doing one of these old string bags because of the rigging. I'll be checking in from time to time!

Wim van der Luijt you will have to be patient, for now it's in the idea phase only

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Dave Morris Please visit the associated album for comments, updates & pictures for this project.

Choppa Nutta lovely work, especially for 1/72 !!

Stephan Ryll Great build

Christian Keller Beautyful build, congratulations

Stefan Schneider Great work!!!

Torben Ke A wonderful work, great!

Peter Segers marvellous detailling indeed, specially for a 1/72nd scale. you can be very proud of your model !!!!!

Martyn Fox Superb eye catching model

Roberto Rocat A real, beautiful masterpiece

Angus MacVicar Got rid of my Airfix Voucher And good bye to the Airfix club, as it seems a wast of money to me.......

Rob van Dodewaard looking good

Tahir Özcivan Thank you Rob.

Christian Keller Hi Tahir, very cool Swordfish, love it

Tahir Özcivan Thank you Christian.

Bart Goesaert very nice, thought it was a larger scale at first...

matt b Great job! ???????? what paint and colours did you use for the camo

Tahir Özcivan Thank you guys. Matt I used enamels and which refered by Revell. Upper side colors are 50/50 mixture of greyish blue(79)/tank grey (7 and greenish grey (67 ). For underside sky blue (59). All these colors shaded with black and white.

Mark Davey Gorgeous

Ulf Petersen Great Swordfish, Tahir!

Tahir Özcivan Thank you guys

Bernhard Schrock Excellent Swordfish. Unbelievable that this is in 1:72!!!

Tahir Özcivan Thank you once again.

Kerry COX Welcome to the club Pierre Henry, And I am sure you will enjoy all that happens here.
There are many, many, wonderful and most helpful people here that will have all the encouragement and help you could wish for.
As they look in on your build, they will have something to say.
This looks like a large kit and I am wondering who makes it. ?
Cheers.

Pierre Henry Laugier It's a Trumpeter kit 1/32.
What do you think about it for the moment?

Kerry COX I have just done some visuals on Google 'images' on the kit, as I have built the Tamiya 1/48 kit, and know nothing about this Trumpeter kit at all, except from what I have just seen.

Do you plan to add all the brass and stow the wings in the folded position. ?
From what I am seeing here, it looks to be a most challenging build and I will not really be able to say much until I see what else your going to do with it, but it looks like a heap of fun for sure.

Pierre Henry Laugier I think I will do one wing folded and the other open. I didn't bought the BIGEd kit that go with it. So I think I will do some other stuff from scratch like the little thinggy arround the yoke. Even me I don't know where I am going with it and what kind of home made improvment I'll do. I am going to work on seat belt.

Kerry COX
worldinscale

Take a look at Christians work and you will see has done a lot of scratch building with his kit builds, and he is one of the best modellers I have seen, and most inspirational.

Pierre Henry Laugier Where can I find this Christians?

Kerry COX the link in my post here, "Worldinscale" under my name here, and that will open up his posts here, and just go through the albums he has posted.

Or, you can 'click' on this one.

worldinscale

Pierre Henry Laugier great thanks

Jurica Antić Ako...
Jedva sam ga našao, tj. naletio da je povoljan, i to s jetkovinom! Prati e-bay

Tim Hedworth Amazing job Petr, she's going to look fantastic when done

Petr Štěpaník Thanks for comment Tim. I hope, I'll finish this kit sometime.

komoras I can't cope with the amount of detail!!! Great job!!!

Pierre-Christian Baudru Very good job !!! Cheers.

John E Nice build. How did you like this kit? I haven't built it yet.

Anthony Jordan Thanks John. I like the kit, I just wish my building skills were better! It is nicely detailed, and the final product looks good, to my eyes. Decals apply cleanly, although I would recommend some sort of setting solution such as decal fix, especially for the fuselage codes, given the profile of the area over which they sit. I was surprised how few stencils there were, but perhaps the FAA didn't go in for them? The moulding of some parts is very fine, which is great, but it does demand particular care in removing them, as the plastic is inclined to both bend and snap! The outer wing struts have a subsidiary strut behind them, and I broke both whilst extracting them, so I eventually abandoned my side cutters for the finer pieces. From the instructions I wasn't sure how to assemble the cockpit tub and made the wrong choice, making it slightly too wide, which it then needed a lot of glue, clamping and brute force to correct when I put the fuselage halves together. The efforts made by Airfix to simplify the assembly of the wings were effective, though. Overall a very good kit.

Anthony Jordan Further thought - if you follow the placement of the "B" code shown in the French profile, then placement and settling of these decals may be a bit easier.

soheil moghisi Nice job.

Anthony Jordan Thank you both!

John E Thanks for the tips, Anthony! I will use them if and when I build that kit. I really dislike it when things gon't go as planned.

Anthony Jordan John, you're very welcome. This build for the first time I 90% finished painting the fuselage and inner surfaces of the wings before putting them together, which I found substantially easier, and will try to remember next time. I wish I had thought to put on the lower wing decals at the same time!

Anthony Jordan Unlike the picture sourced above, the Airfix painting guide doesn't show the standard RAF/FAA fin flash in use. I'm minded to use it anyway!

Anthony Jordan And I did, adds a welcome splash of colour. I also followed the above profile, but deviated from the painting guide, by roughly painting-out the "Royal" of "Royal Navy" above the port and starboard serial codes.I also applied an interpretation of the two schemes to create the camouflage pattern, as the Airfix painting guide showed the same pattern on both port and starboard sides, which seemed inherently unlikely, as well as being contradicted by the overhead view. It is also worth noting that some of the painting instructions given in the course of the build are different from those parts as shown in the painting guide, for example the bomb racks and rocket carriers, which are both 85 Coal Black according to the instructions, but 90 Beige Green (approx Sky) according to the painting guide. The kit comes with a torpedo and its impedimenta plus two extra rockets, and so is a useful source of spares.

Martyn Fox Nice looking model What do you use for the rigging wires ?

Vladimir Kafka 0,12 mm fishing line. slightly thinner (0,08 ) for antenna wires.

Jens simply brilliant, and the mark sometimes exotic beautiful
when the scale was not written, I would tipen more at 1:32

Ulf Petersen The model is absolutely beautiful - on the other hand the presentation would benefit from a little more info and facts.

Vladimir Kafka Well everything is on the internet already, I guess..anyway: this machine of 833 NAS took part in operation Torch: allied amphibious assault on French north Africa. It was based in Gibraltar and on HMS BITER, fulfilling anti-sub duties for the operation. Fun facts - apart from false US markings which I already described in other thread - 1. This machine is a bit of a hybrid between Mk.I and Mk.II versions, although listed as a Mk.I, it already has the taller oil cooler (therefore probably a newer Pegasus engine) and radar equipment (see the yagi antennae), but also old style generator pipes (the thingy on fuselage top behind the engine). 2. HMS BITER served with French Navy after war.

enough?

Ulf Petersen Thx for the explanantion!

Martien Lourens This is a beauty. Nicely built and painting.

David Lengyel Front row taken, please fetch me some beer and popcorn

Vladimir Kafka well, movie is almost over actually I should be able to finish it during this week.

Patrik Spett I'm all exceited when you get to the wiring because I can't do that very successful myself. Very nice job so far.

Lionel Marco Your Stringbag is big, sorry, great!

Vladimir Kafka Patrik, thank you. Wiring is the easiest part, since I learned the right method couple of kits ago. I am actually looking forward to it.

Augie Looks bloody good.

Alan Rush Nice Vladimir! Is there a story behind the markings. Still "Royal Navy" on fuselage yet American otherwise. Where was this used and stationed? Didn't know U.S. used Swordfish, but then again I don't know much about Swordfish!

Vladimir Kafka Thanks.
This is a marking from operation Torch - the US markings were given to british planes, because it probably seemed... awkward to attack their former French allies (again! remember Mers-el-Kebir) with regular markings Also, supposedly, the US AA gunners were too trigger happy and the familiar white stars reduced risk of friendly fire.

Soeren . Looks really good. I must say that I really love the painting!

Alan Rush Thanks Vladimir. Interesting information that I did not know.

Vladimir Kafka btw please note the badly overpainted fin flash, I am particularly proud about that

Alan Rush Yes. Agreed

Choppa Nutta yeah lovely, and at 1:72nd scale too !!!

Jens absolutely fantastic, the strain a pure masterpiece

Dieter Bihlmaier I agree with Jens, Fantastic build Vladimir!

Vladimir Kafka thanks guys. it's finished for some time already, but I am slowly uploading all of my projects to have them complete at one place..

Mike Kryza I think nearly every kit is an eyecatcher - go on!!!

Fabian D. My contribution to the groupbuild, although it´s started, I´ll need probably pretty much the same time as with an unstarted kit, as I need to clean up the whole build...

The engine might be the hardest part, as the pattafix I used for masking got old over the years and is now real pain to remove from the tiny ribs of the cilinders... but again what learned

Wim van der Luijt I'm in! (have a 1:48 swordfish lying around..love that plane!)

B 1/72!! The true scale!!

Fabian D. wrong, wrong, wrong, 1:35 is the only true scale, the rest ist just toys
So far I learned my lesson, never leave the masking stuff on for more than a month, and never never for years... the stuff changed it´s caracteristics and soaked in the cooling ribs...

Hunter Cummins I agree with fabian totally

JOHN THOMAS I agree with Brandon 1/72 is the true scale

Hunter Cummins Ok so for aircraft,
You camt beat 1/72
But for armor
1/35 is the real scale
Deal?? lol

JOHN THOMAS Yes, each scale has it's advantage

Hunter Cummins

B You think it's salvageable?

Fabian D. It was, I left the engine in a water-soap-alcohol bath... after two weeks the water and the masking stuff were both almost gone ...

Clifford Keesler Nice airplane.

Wim van der Luijt What can I say...it was a bargain...and my loft needs more insulation now that winter is on our doorstep

Clifford Keesler Nice Model, I'll be watching that one.

Wim van der Luijt that might take a while...this one is next in line: Supermarine Seafire Mk.XV (Revell 04835, 1:48)

Roland Sachsenhofer ... und hier bin ich erst recht dabei! Wunderbar Albi, schon am Anfang große Klasse.

Jens ohhh , die Swordfish , als die ganz neu auf dem markt war , als Mk.I , habe ich die zu Weinachten bekommen , damals 99,-DM , wenn mal wieder Platz sein sollte , das ist eines der wenigen englishen Flugzeuge was mir gefällt
und was du uns zeigst , das ist für mich dann ein Lehrstück in Sachen Modellbau

Bill Gilman Looking very nice Albi!

Albi Hitz @ Jens Vielen Dank für deine lobenden Worte.
Ja, die Swordfish war für mich immer so ein "na ja" Flugzeug aber dann war da meine Frau mit im Modellbauladen und die sagte mir : "der hier ist cool!" und so habe ich mich mit der Sworfish auseinander gesetzt und gemerkt, dass das Teil sehr viel potenzial hat ... leider ist es auch hier so, dass von der vielen Arbeit nicht mehr so wie zu sehen ist, aber es macht Spass. Das Verspannen geht sehr gut mit den (nicht ganz günstigen) Tamiya Zusatzteilen ... das Teil wird cool .... aber definitiv kein Wochenend - Projekt.

Albi Hitz @ Bill: Thank you. Work in progress ....

Jens stimmt , das Teil ist echt Cool , aber , Tamiya-Preis-Obergrenze
man könnte die 32er Trumpeter fast zum gleichen Preis haben , aber dann nur in der Landversion , der Kit ist in der Qualli dem der kleinen Tamiya gleich zu stellen und die Eduardteile ...... besser garnicht überlegen , am 28.09./29.09 ist E Day in Prag

Acki Da bin ich auch gerne dabei. Schöne Arbeit und es wird sicher noch viel interessanter.

Bill Gilman You will like this kit, it is amazing!

Pierre-Christian Baudru Yes you are right, this kit is fantastic !!!! And the float one too !!!!

Bill Gilman This is one sweet kit!

Bill Gilman Holy cow! Everything you've read about this kit is true. The engineering of the kit is stunning. But I've never built a bi-plane before. I'm already having nightmares about the rigging!

Bill Gilman Me want too...or is it two?

Wilfried Bogaerts two! one with wheels and one on floats!

Duncan Cook A a swordfish on boots.
I like

Wilfried Bogaerts Marvelous presentation, aivan ihana !

Steve Wilson I like it Timo, very atmospheric...

Timo Honkanen Thank you very much, you are too kind

Frank Krause Hi Timo, nice model, eye-catching presentation! hyvää työtä!

Philip De Keyser Great scenery of the swordfish, I like it, greetz Phil

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench Cooooool,very good presentation!

Lionel Marco

That's a really good idea for showing the stringbag in action, and the resulmt is great!

Lionel

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench No weapons????Does it sell ice cream or what???

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench Whether or not,its absolutly great!!Well,well done Zimmi.

Dirk Heyer Hi Chris,
very well done and the paintjob is smooth and accuracy!
The clipped wing is a nice technical feature! Looks more busy now. The rigging is also well done!
All in all a fine model!
Greets
Dirk

Guido Haesevoets The throttle lever for the pilot is missing...?

Philip De Keyser Great job you've done on your Swrodfish, the rigging is great, love that work, greetz Phil

Wilfried Bogaerts The fuel tanks are empty...

stefan natus Well done,very nice rigging.

Holger Kranich Ich fand ne swordfish immer scheiße, aber deine ist großartig!

Bill Gilman Fantastic Stringbag!

Markus Fabke Hi,

thank you .

@Holger , danke für die Worte , hätte sie König nicht letztes Jahr zum Schnäpchen Preis angeboten hätte ich sie mir nicht geholt.
Da ich aber Trägerflugzeuge mag und die Swordfish als Doppeldecker mit ihren eingklappten Tragflächen sau gut aus sieht, war es noch ein Grund sie mir zu holen.
Auch die Ätzteile haben sehr gut gepasst und werten den schon sehr guten Nausatz noch mehr auf .

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Markus

Lionel Marco
Great job, which motivates me to finish my own stringbag.

My problem is with the bracing wires. Did you use the ones provided by Trumeter, which are very stiff? Or did uou use something else?

Lionel

Zimmermaniac a real dirty stringbag, I like this one, I'm currently working on Tamiya's myself

Markus Fabke Hello,

@Lionel Marco
It was noted the Trumpeter etched parts for the wings.
I hbae accurately fitted.
Here on the side of the building report modellboard.net/index.php?topic=38098.0

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Markus

Zimmermaniac great !!

Markus Fabke Hi,

thank you .

cu
MArkus

Zimmermaniac pics please

Markus Fabke Hi,

here please the link Trumpeter Fairey Swordfish Mk.II | Album by Markus68 (1:32) .

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Markus

Wilfried Bogaerts @Urban ROFL!

Urban Gardini

Holger Kranich I know that i´m not older than you all but what means: ROFL? Rolling on the floor and laughing?

Urban Gardini Yepp...

Zimmermaniac after thinking and considering...I did order the etch bracing wires, as Urban stated, they have to be flat and I won't achieve that with any other method

Holger Kranich Good choice!

Lionel Marco What a beautiful gift!

Urban Gardini Great mate!

Zimmermaniac ordered at modelhobbies UK, 10 euros less than at LHS Holland, explain this.....