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Fairey Swordfish Mk 1 1:72 Matchbox

Bearing the markings of one of the aircraft involved in the hunt for Bismarck.

Eastern Express 1:72 Westland Wessex HAS.1 (72269)
The kit came without decals, and those I bought only had 1 HAS.1 example (which I didn't want to replicate), so the markings are a bit of a whiff  :oops:

1:72 Airfix (02023) Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat of 800 Squadron Fleet Air Arm embarked in H.M.S. Emperor in February 1945.

Frog 1/72 Blackburn Skua

I bought this in a Lucky Dip box without transfers or instructions, so my markings were copied from a picture

Airfix 1/72 Fairey Swordfish 02071 kit, from the A50099 Yr 2 Club Pack with bombs and racks from A04053 Swordfish and ASV and decals from the Matchbox kit.
NH-F s/n NF410 painted black overall and carrying ASV radar and 250-lb (113-kg) bombs, 119 squadron was based at Knocke, Le Zoute, Belguim, in 1945, and were used against enemy E- and R-boats operating off the Dutch coast.


This one comes from the Airfix 1/72 Operation Torch ‘The Sparks Of Liberation’ (A82014) with decals from A04053 for K8449, No. 820 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Courageous, March 1939.


Airfix 1/72 Fairey Swordfish Mk.I (A04053) K8393/E5A flown by Captain Oliver Patch RN and Lieutenant David G. Goodwin RN, No. 824 Naval Air Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, HMS Eagle, Operation “Judgement” against Italian fleet at Taranto, Italy, 11/12th November 1940.

Airfix 1/72 Wildcat Mk.VI (01037) from the Airfix Club Limited Edition (A50099) Fleet Air Arm Set

Airfix 1:72 Supermarine Seafire Mk.IIc (A02035)

Airfix 1/72 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2c (A06021)
DSC_0011 by Richard Linnell, on Flickr

Frog 1/72 Fairey Gannet AS.4 (F228)

Airfix 1/72 Whirlwind H.A.S. 22 (9 02056)

Airfix 1/48 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2D (A12012) No. 809 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Ark Royal, August 1978.

Sea Harrier F A/2 s/n ZD613 No.800 Naval Air Squadron, RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset, England, 2004.

#57 Airfix 1/48 Fairey Gannet AS.1/AS.4 (A11007)