String Bag A Swordfish

[Guest]

nice job on the pit

Roman

[mossiepilot]

Thats a crackimg office Laurie.

Tony.

[Guest]

Awesome office Laurie!!!

[papa 695]

What a great start Laurie That Tamiya kit looks top notch

[flyjoe180]

Great start Laurie. The completed Swordfishes so far have been magnificent, will be good to see another brilliant result here.

[Vaughan]

All looks good Laurie some great detail. That interior framework reminds me of the Revell Arado 196. keep posting the photos this is an interesting build.

Vaughan

[Guest]

Thanks men grateful for your interest & comments.

Hope I can get my camera mended soon. Big Sales Group causing problems & difficulties. Will not mention the name (secretly it is Currys). Two telephone conversations & five emails seem to be making progress.

Laurie

[Guest]

Little slow going & also just got the camera back from repair.

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The figures. The faces need more work on them but they have great detail. Bought Edward stuff but as the figures are going to be used the Edward seat belts are redundant. Very enjoyable to paint. They looked weathered. Accidental in fact. I did not prime & with all the handling they “weatherd “ so thought thy looked OK & I am leaving them as portrayed here.

Not a great lot to say so far except the detailing is superb. If you look at the floor of the cockpit for instance it is very well detailed. Think I will weather but not fully decided yet. The red bits represent the doped linen.

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The engine is well detailed. Shots of parts non existent due to camera. Tamiya photo parts are all there but like others difficult to show on camera. But they look very good.

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All parts except the very small pieces have been airbrushed. The figures hand painted. Observation how about being a part of the crew in a single engined aircraft with all of your body open to the elements, cold, rain snow & definetley wind in the North Atlantic including Iceland. These blokes deserved a special recognition.

All in all so far a very nice model to build. The instructions are good & a lot of care has been taken in the design & production of the parts. First Tamiya & impressed.

Laurie

PS colours of the fuselage construction is pale green. Here it has turned out for some reason fawn.

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[Ian M]

Looking very nice Laurie.

Ian M

[Guest]

those figures are 1/48???

WOW what detail eh.

I just bought a set of 8 new airfix ones and there's more detail in one of your lots arm than in all 8 airfix figures.

nicely painted also my friend

[Guest]

Colin one came as a complete figure. The other with one arm to be glued to fix in position as required the other similar but two arms.

They are in fact better than the photos show. Yes they are 1/48.

Laurie

[Guest]

Looking good mate.

:smile:

[Guest]

Great looking figures,an area I need to work on for sure. They look really sharp ,nicely done Laurie!

[mossiepilot]

Your stringbag is really coming along, the detail is awesome.

Great work so far.

Tony.

[Guest]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]50470[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]50471[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]50472[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]50473[/ATTACH]Stringbag. Comes from the string shopping bag my mother & every other mother had at that time. A string bag carried everything what ever shape size or weight adaptable for anything. That was the Swordfish it could carry to the enemy every armament available.

Hi Laurie

Will be watching this build very closley as its on my bucket list.

Coming along really nicly :-)

I'm certainly not an aircraft buff but I always thought that Stringbag derived from the fact they used string to make repairs to this wonderful aircraft?

Nice build mate

Rich :-)