Hawker Seafury

[stona]

Very nice indeed. I don't know how you are planning to weather your model but it gives me an excuse to post a picture that perfectly illustrates the typical exhaust stain of the Sea Fury,something very often mis-represented!
Picture taken by my father from his aircraft of squadron mates from 801 Sqn. They are on their way to Bardufoss (Norway),September 1954.

And another one showing that tricky exhaust area to good effect.

My dad is no longer with us but I still have a model he made of his Sea Fury. There is much debate about RN wheel wells but he did them yellow. I guess it's meant to be ZC Yellow. He also did a black spinner as in the photos above,though I have pictures taken a little earlier in Malta and the spinners are all EDSG.

Cheers
Steve

 

[badbear]

Thanks for the pics mate that will help a lot in weathering.BB

 

[N4521U]

It's looking greaaaaat, as the tiger would say! Alclad! I am building a polished P-51D, Merlin's Magic and want to finish it as the plane looks, many polishing man hours. Since I see you using Alclad, could you advise me to use "chrome" or "polished" as the plane is highly polished. cheers, bill

 

[Airframes]

Great pics of the Sea Fury !

 

[dirkpitt289]

I love that paint scheme

 

[Wayne Little]

Sweet pics!

 

[badbear]

Hi bill Alclad is very easy to use first a gloss black base coat (the smoother the better ) then the chrome or polished alluminium but build these up in very light coats till you get the shine you require i would say use chrome and polished aluminium as it would give the effect of different panels on the plane.BB

 

[badbear]

Here,s some more pics as you can see she,s coming on

excuse the mess in the last pic

 

[stona]

I'm glad you like them and find them of some use. I've only got one other picture scanned on this computer,I hope BB won't mind me posting it on his thread. It's 801 Sqn again, on the way to Malta aboard H.M.S. Glory and fairly obviously at Gibraltar. This is around 9th November 1953 as on that day my father's log has the following entries.
"65deg DB ,Division Drill,then to Gibraltar"
And later
"Gibraltar to Glory"
( DB...Dive bombing )
Nice weather and shiny aircraft but you can see some interesting weathering on the propellers.

Steve

 

[badbear]

I don,t mind one bit Steve its fantastic to see a piece of little covered history many thanks mate.BB

 

[magnu]

Nice work on the Sea fury BB

 

[stona]

I don,t mind one bit Steve its fantastic to see a piece of little covered history many thanks mate.BB

Cheers BB,yours is certainly coming along very nicely.
Steve

 

[Gnomey]

Nice pics! The model looks to be coming along nicely as well.

 

[Catch22]

Very nice work! I bought my brother one of these almost a year ago and he hasn't started it, so this'll help out a lot I think!

 

[N4521U]

BB thanks for that, you've got me on the right track for MM. You have one terrific looking piece there. I hope Merlin looks half as good. cheers, Bill

 

[badbear]

Thanks Bill.BB

 

[Matt308]

Wow she's a beauty!!

 

[badbear]

Can anybody help me with the colour of the u/c bay on the sea fury thanks.BB

 

[rochie]

brilliant badbear

 

[stona]

Can anybody help me with the colour of the u/c bay on the sea fury thanks.BB

You are going to get conflicting answers! My dad did them a version of ZC Yellow on a model he built in the' 1970s. This was backed up by an ex curator of the FAA museum who worked on Furies during the Korean war who stated that the wells,wing folds,etc were ZC yellow at that time. My mother who would have seen the underside more often than the top also recalled a yellow colour,mind you she described Sky as "dirty white" and had convinced herself there were two upper colours so........
This all applies to RN aircraft,I've no idea what the Aussies,Canadians,etc did to theirs.
Others are going to suggest interior grey/green,aluminium and underside colours.
Cheers
Steve