<> **** DONE: 1/48 Fairey Swordfish MkII - WW1 / WW2 over Water.

[Crimea_River]

I'll throw up these two pics I took from a bit of work I did last Friday. The radio was painted black, drybrushed with silver and two instrument faces painted white. I didn't do any more as it's kinda buried. The tarp was painted khaki and shaded before I secured the shelf onto the framing. I took care to make sure that the framing fitted into the slot in the shelf which, judging from the pic posted by Michael, is important for ensuring that the assembly fits properly into the fuselage. I think Michael;s isn't aligned quite correctly and that's probably why he had an issue.

I dry fitted this assembly into the fuselage and everything fits reasonably well.

 

[Michael Stolting]

Andy,
I'm sure you're correct about my misalignment on my Swordfish.
I wish I could see the images you've posted but they're not showing up on my monitor.

Mike

 

[Robert Porter]

Guys a lot of images are not showing up. Its not the board its an outage on Amazons S3 network which carries a lot of traffic. Things should improve in a little while.

 

[Airframes]

Thanks for that Robert, some image in some threads are not showing for me either.

 

[Wayne Little]

Noticed a bit of funny business happening.....

Doing that delicate cockpit assembly alignment thingy too Andy....fun ain't it....

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Doing that delicate cockpit assembly alignment thingy too Andy....fun ain't it....

It's not bad actually. Tamiya of course get everything to fit nicely. Just need to get in their head space and make sure you put it together like they intended.

 

[A4K]

Can't see the pics either Andy...hope they sort the problem soon.

 

[Crimea_River]

Pics in post 41 have been reloaded.

 

[Robert Porter]

I see them now! Looking great! Of course the fact that I can see them now could be due to the fact I have only just started my scotch intake too...

 

[Crimea_River]

I actually reloaded them myself Robert.

I took a few breaks from my Beaufighter and chugged along on my Stringbag. Here we see the completed paint work on one of the fuselage halves. Regular Interior Grey-Green on the metal parts and a streaked pinky-yellow for the doped fabric. The stringers are wood so I painted those dark brown. I tried masking these but gave up and hand painted them instead after I saw a lot of bleed-throuh. A bit unsteady but it will be only partly visible anyway.

Close-up of the instrument panel. The individual dials were cut out of the decal sheet and set into the bezels. The machine gun ammo box (seen in silver) was a bit too shallow as supplied with the kit so I added a bit of card to deepen it.

Here's a trial fit of the cockpit structure in the right fuselage half. The left one still fits nice and snug.

I need to add the seatbelts. The pilot's are straight forward but I gather, from reading, that the observer only had a lap belt attached to a loop on the floor. Not sure about the W/O Gunner though as the same reference says he had the same as the Observer but the kit supplies a full harness decal. Need to look into that a bit more but if anyone knows, please enlighten me.

 

[Airframes]

It's looking good Andy. Can't help re the seat harnesses though.

 

[Michael Stolting]

Andy,

I'm afraid I don't have any more information regarding the seatbelts. When I built mine I had some Eduard PE seatbelts/harnesses that I used on the fore and aft positions. I've no idea what the guy on the stool-like seat in the middle would have used. For that matter I'm not sure if I installed the PE correctly although it looked OK to me.

Mike

 

[Robert Porter]

It is fantastic work! Love the look and detail you have added!

 

[fubar57]

Great work Andy. I'll see if I can find any shots of the seat belts

 

[fubar57]

Sorry Andy, 9 books and they all show the same crappy cockpit photos. Don't know if this pic will help for your rockets.

 

[A4K]

Looks great Andy!
My books here are now packed up for shipping (one has a Swordfish cutaway...) so not sure on the belts at the minute. Will check when they arrive, if that's not too late, and the net in between.

 

[Wayne Little]

It's not bad actually. Tamiya of course get everything to fit nicely. Just need to get in their head space and make sure you put it together like they intended.

Oh yes....and I'm sure, like me you dry fit, adjust, repeat and it all comes together......like they intended...

 

[Crimea_River]

Yep.

Thanks for looking guys. I went to the Euard site and checked on what they provide for cockpit details. Their seat belts are consistent what I have read, namely that the two seats behind the pilot were provided with lap belts. I think I'll just go with that.

 

[Michael Stolting]

Andy, Because this is a Swordfish that is still in existence the belts/harnesses may have been removed or otherwise secured out of sight. I thought you might be interested in the pictures anyway. I found them on Flickr while searching the 'net.