AOKGB Fairey Firefly Part 4

Well its been a dark dreary week in Melbourne and the Australian ModelExpo 2012 has been on the past week days. There were a few familiar models on display and I am sure someone will put up some photos. Sorry, I did not as my photography sucks!

Anyway work still plodding on with the Firefly's and I have got both to the stage of just needing some final cleaning up (especially the Airfix Firefly canopies) before I start masking and priming etc

Airfix Kit:

Finished scribing the wings. Also extended the front portion of the nose by approx 1.5mm.

Fitted the Falcon canopies and attempted to get a close match to the fuselage, I still need to clean up the transparencies after this and some final rub down.

Reworked the undercarriage and fitted nor e prototypical struts. Also too the opportunity to thin the door flaps and add additional detail.







Hobby Special:

Fitted off the aircraft and fitted transparencies, no major work or alterations. I did need to apply sone filler of the wing joins after sanding back the join to get a better fit.





I hope that by the end of the week I should be in the position to start painting the final schemes, the only problem I am still unsure what they may be. the Airfix will be an FR.4 and the Hobby Special an FR.5

Let us see what transpires

Thanks

Fred