**** DONE: GB-61 1/48 Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 – Carrier and Maritime Aircraft

[Vic Balshaw]

Username: Vic Balshaw
First name: Vic
Category: Advanced
Scale: 1/48
Manufacturer: Airfix A06105A

Extras: Going to town on this one.
Airies AIR-4750 Wheelbay. Barracuda Cast BR48334 Main Wheels. Easy Solutions 148567 Seat Harness. Eduard EDFE878 Interior detail PE. Eduard EX576 Mask. Master MR48-134 Hispano Mk.V Cannon Barrel Tips and Pitot Tube. Quick Boost QB48581 Gyroscope Gunsight. Quick Boost QB48834 Undercarriage Covers. Quick Boost QB48836 Exhaust. Xtradecal X48061 Decals RAN.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Development of the Hawker aircraft started in 1943 with the initial flight of the Fury being September 1944 and the Sea Fury in February 1945.
Australia was one of three Commonwealth nations to operate the Sea Fury, with the others being Canada and Pakistan. The first batch of 25 Sea Fury's for Australia embarked in April 1949 on the newly built and commissioned carrier HMAS Sydney and were allocated to 805 Squadron of the ANFAA (Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm) was only formed in 1948.

My subject, WH587 was delivered aboard HMAS Vengeance in March 1952 and served with the squadron in Korea and at home until being struck off charge in September 1963. The aircraft went on to serve as a racer in the USA, based at Fresno, then passed into the hands of the Ellsworth Hovey Getchell Foundation in about December 1976. It is my belief that the aircraft is still with the foundation.

Source: Internet.

 

[rochie]

good choice Vic, need to get one of these myself

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Good one Vic. Built the Hobbycraft Sea Fury during the last century. This should be miles ahead

 

[Airframes]

Nice one Vic, and I agree with Geo.
I built the Hobbycraft kit some years back, and even with some additions, modifications and a lot of work, it'll never compare to the Airfix kit.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Thank you gents, I'm looking forward to doing it. Sprue washing day today, maybe a little start tomorrow then its off to Melbourne for a few days.

 

[F-104nut]

Sweet subject Vic !! This will look awesome !

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Thanks Brian and I'll do my best.

 

[Wayne Little]

Great choice Vic....need to do one myself...

 

[Jock Tamson]

Great choice I've built this kit and it went together very well. Looking forward to seeing all the extra bits being employed.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Thanks for the interest and encouraging words gents.

I made a start today doing a lot of part checking against the PE enhancements so I have been snipping and scraping a lot. One thing I did spend a lot of time on was the wheel bay resin main part, it's quite a bit thicker than the kit part and needed some work to thin the back down as much as I could. It was Dremel and face-mask time but we got there in the end. What I'm showing below is the test fitting to ensure the wing join seams sit nicely with this great lump of resin tucked under them.

As you can see a nice bit of small detail is hidden in here. I'm also none to sure of colour. Airfix say 74 Linen which I think would be there close interpretation of chromate yellow. I have seen chromate, silver and light grey in the wheel bay but am inclined to plumb for chromate in the bay and light grey for the undercarriage and the doors. If anybody has good info to input on this score, it would be much appreciated.

As you can see I've worked it down very close here, the base is now wafer thin and in a couple of places, thin air.

A lot of blue tape and a test run which I was pleased with.

Thanks for stopping by guys. Enjoy your day.

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Canadian Sea Fury here in town. Images are mine and free use. Light grey wheel wells.

 

[Jock Tamson]

Hi Vic, there's some nice images of restored Sea Furies over on Britmodeler in their walk around section. There are shots of the undercarriage bays of two examples both different colours. I'm partially colour blind so I can't say for certain what they are!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Many thanks Andy and also Greg, I'll be checking Britmodeller out again, I did find one on there site and I'm sure it was chromeate yellow.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far Vic!

 

[N4521U]

Geeez didn't even see this one come up!
Sea Fury is my next GB. I'll be watching!!!!!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

It will be on hold for a while now Bill, just back from the big city down south with the paint I need for the other build, so going to concentrate on that one.