Looking at the pic I do see what you are saying. To me that is too small of it being off to be an issue. It’s your kit and your work, but I wouldn’t worry about that. If you hadn’t said anything I would never had noticed.
BK
Learning from mistakes is what we do best.
Wow Helo, you are really getting into that beastie!
Real G, that has got to be one of the strangest aircraft I have ever seen. It looks like something from a bad science fiction script![:D]
The fit of the canopy wasn’t too bad , although it did sit a little high along the top of the fuselage and also across the bottom edge along the front
I decided to blend it in a bit better with some putty and sand it to contour in
The tail fin and tail planes fitted okay .
I’ve airbrushed the beaching gear parts yellow and those cushion pads dark gray . I can start assembling some of it tomorrow . The wings are also ready to glue on first thing in the morning , so I’m almost there getting this beast together .
More updates tomorrow .
She’s really looking good. Your are certainly cruising right along.
BK
Another update on my progress with the seamaster
Fitting and glueing the wings wasn’t without some issue’s . I had to cut of the tabs that fit into the slots on the fuselage , my wings kept wanting to sit horizontal and I wanted a slight downward droop .
Once the glued dried I puttied the wing/fuselage join , there wasn’t much of a gap thank goodness .
Anyway that’s all I got done today , some more sanding tomorrow evening after work .
You are just racing along while the rest of us stare at our kits. I guess I’ll have to crack mine open. I only have 3 other kits on the bench, what’s another.
BK
Alrighty then. Let’s crack this big bad boy open and get to work.
BK
Ooooooh! Nice BK! One of my favorite planes. I’ve been wishing for a new 1/48 kit, but that looks so nice. I’ll be following along this build for sure. I’ve never done a 1/32 kit but that one would be the first!
BK, I have that beast in the stash and haven’t opened the box so it’s still sealed. I read lots of not so positive reviews regarding fit issues so it will be interesting to get your take on building it.
I finally got around to open the box and check things out on this Seamew kit. Looks to be a low parts count kit with some very nice resin detailed parts. I never wash kit parts except for resin ones but the instructions say in BOLD letters to wash ALL the parts so I did and are air drying now.
Next will be the tedious task of cutting the resin parts from the mold blocks and using CA to assemble them.
I kinda recall hearing something like that. I find it usually comes for builders who expect the kit to fall together with no glue and paint itself and they bash it when it doesn’t. That’s not modeling to me, that’s just assembly. I expect issues here and there, but I am not concerned.
The resin on your kit looks amazing. She should build up into a very nice kit.
BK
I have a Czech Models Seamew in the stash. Got to be one of the ugliest planes out there, that and the Baracuda.
Steve,
The British, especially the Royal Navy, seemed to have been running a “Most Ugly Aeroplane Contest” between the 1940-1950 period - we must never forget to include the Gannet, Seamew, and Sturgeon. The Baracuda though, wins hands-down when everything is folded up. Or down. Or sideways. It was almost like the designers at Fairey could not make up their minds about how and where to fold the airplane for carrier stowage. Compare to the elegant wing folding system of the Wildcat/Hellcat/Avenger.
I’d better get on with the Lun - John is blitzing me with his Seamaster!
It does look like the result of a night of drunken carousing between a Kingfisher and a Helldiver.
I also have a couple others, a Ryan something or other and another weird plane from the same company with resin parts.
double post
If the Brits were doing that in the 40s, then they must have taken over from the French in the 30s, some of those early monoplane bombers.
Anyway, made a start on my AZModel Kingfisher, as used by the RAAF. I think they were known as Vought-Sikorskys locally. At the moment I’m thinking aout the bare metal scheme shown on the box art, but there are many interesting and varied camo schemes for these things. I could well be tempted.
Here’s my start, taking parts of the sprue only so far.
Cheers
Tony
Kingfishers were a nice plane. A little underpowered though and could swamp easily if it carried much more weight than the two man crew. But used for search, it was great.
I wish we could get a new/modern 1/48 Kingfisher
Dont know if Lone Star still makes resin AM parts for the old Monogram Kingfisher. I bought some resin updates from that company back in 2012 for my mine and it is a HUGE improvement over the kit parts.