Warbird Information Exchange

Some years ago I saw a photo of a newly restored Sea Fury being rolled from the hanger without any paint or markings. I forget whether it was NMF or overall silver paint (which would probably be polyurethane these days) but I was struck by the inherent beauty of the Sea Fury airframe and thought I'd build a model just like that.

Hobbycraft 1/48 kit built 100% out of the box. Paint is Tamiya rattlecan Gloss Aluminum. Exhaust panel and spinner airbrushed Testor Chrome Silver just to get a little contrast, though it doesn't show up all that well.

I was right. The Naked Fury is a thing of beauty, is it not?

Nice! I miss that kit. I always think of doing something similar with a corsair.

mazdaP5 wrote:I always think of doing something similar with a corsair.

Been there, done that.



And just since I have the photobucket up, here's the other Sea Fury I built a couple years ago:

Always did think the Fury was a pretty aircraft. Good job!

Excellent finish on the blue one! Enamel? I can't seem to make acrylics lay down like that even using Tamiya retarder.

WIXerGreg wrote:Excellent finish on the blue one! Enamel? I can't seem to make acrylics lay down like that even using Tamiya retarder.

Yes, enamel. It was a custom mix but I honestly don't remember the colors I used--might have been a mix of three. One was apparently gloss black, as Testor Glossy Sea Blue wasn't what I was looking for here at all. I remember I needed to go for a blue a bit darker than the roundels, according to photos. I didn't rub this paint out or polish it; that's just as it came out of the airbrush. I do recall I thinned the mix with naphtha (lighter fluid), the downside to that is that it turns the paint to Jello within a week, so it can't be saved.

I built and painted both of these five or six or eight years ago, but only finished the blue one up about two years ago and the silver one just this week. I have a bad habit of doing all the "hard work" of building a model and then losing interest in it just when completion is in sight. Sigh.

Super work señor Snake. Thought I saw a couple photos close to looking like your artwork. Nicely done and once again I'm always amazed at the talent you modelers have. Good job.

M