Finito! Not a show-stopper, but I like how she turned out & it’ll be on my office desk shortly.
Started with the Hobbycraft Canada kit, replaced the upper cowling with aftermarket resin. Wasn’t happy with the kit prop blades so I swapped in blades from a Hase kit. The undercarriage was… in desperate need of replacing, but I decided to mount her instead. Tamiya acrylics for the exterior colours, Aeromaster decals (802 Sq, HMS Glory in September 1946) & Tamiya weathering pastels. The “in-flight” mounting is kinda heavy-duty, but it’s sitting in my office now, wanted to make sure it was fairly sturdy.
Very nice Vance!! The camo/colors and weathering look great!! I really like the way the modified engine cowl looks on these Mk’s. That was to make room for the cylinder heads correct?
Pretty much, adding the new engine to the existing shape, they needed those bulges to make room for the power plant. It certainly looked a little angrier with the bulges.
Dre, yeah, from what I can tell there is a portion of the rudder that drops WITH the tailhook on landing approach. (but I’d love to hear from a proper Seafire expert to confirm it though)
Certainly not a Seafire expert but thought you might be interested in this DEMO/EXPLANATION of how the Seafire tailhook functioned. The tailhook was separate from the rudder.
Ahhh, thanks for that link Bick! So the fairing that drops down with the tailhook unit, I wonder if that actually travels with the rest of the rudder while it’s in the air? It doesn’t look like there is a lot of “mechanicals” there to keep everything in one spot!
Thanks! I suspect that a post-war machine would be taken care of a little better than 1945 & earlier
Welll… yeas and no. I had originally envisioned it on the ground, gear down & cockpit open. I quickly realized that the AM resin I had picked up on sale had NO INTEREST in being inside the Hobbycraft kit, and the gear was going to be more difficult to deal with then I first thought. After I decided to mount it… YES, exactly as I had intended. [whstl]
