Titan's Hawker Fury MK1(***FINISHED***)

[Titan]

Not quite a Swordfish but I should be able to have this finished before the end of this GB..........( I hope)









I will be finishing the kit in a rather jolly scheme similar to this one......


Regards
Mark

[Titan]

Last night I painted the interior Nato black, there is no detail inside the cockpit whatsoever but once the pilot is installed you can't see anything in there anyway.
I also glued the fuselage halves together and last thing added some Mr surfacer down the joins.
This morning I sanded this off and also sanded off the rivet detail that was on the forward cowl as I felt this was over scale and the model would benefit from them being absent.
The pilot was from the spares box and most probably a WWII pilot at that, but it has better detail than the MB kit's driver so I used it and painted it more in keeping with a 30's pilot uniform, Mae West withstanding of course.







Regards
Mark

[Saxon]

Should look good, the Revell mould looks a bit more solid and defined than the original Matchbox one. The colour scheme should go on a treat too.

[splash]

Nice choice Mark, I look forward to seeing this built.

Regards Splash

[Titan]

The cabanes, top cover and the bit the prop goes into... these have been glued into place along with the tail, horizontal stabilizer.




Just trying the wings on for size and will have to dig a bit out of the lower wing for a better fit but all in all not bad at all especially the top wing.


Next job will be to go around filling all the gaps around the engine cover and the big gap where the tail section meets the stabilizer.
I will let that cure a bit and then start some drilling for the rigging.

Regards
Mark

[Titan]

Not much more to add at the end of play today other than drilling the holes for the rigging, sanded the filler and got a much better fit on the lower wing after a bit of scraping and sanding....oh and it's also been masked and is ready for a coat of white primer sometime tomorrow.




I've cut of the kits aerial wire posts in the top wing, drill some holes where they used to be and will replace them with slightly longer ones once the roundels have been added.


Just a bit of filler around these joins once I have the engine area painted and the lower wing can then be glued into place.


Ready now for a bit of paint.



Hopefully I should at least have the yellow on and kleared by tomorrow night.

Regards
Mark

[shangos70]

Quick work Mark, I have one stashed away so will follow this one.

[TimJ]

Nice work so far.

[Titan]

Thanks guys.
Added a coat of white primer first thing this morning waited for it to cure and then it was lightly sanded with microcloths.


With the white on the kit as a base coat the yellow was sprayed on which only needed the one coat and made the yellow nice and bright.


The prop had it's blades painted in much the same way as the Heyford had, I noticed though from this photo that it needs a bit more colour at the base of the blades which I shall do right now.


I will give the yellow a coat of klear later on tonight but that is all I can do with this kit today and I will see if I can grab an hour tomorrow for the rest of the painting.

Regards
Mark

[Titan]

I told a little fib I actually grabbed that hour today as rain stopped me doing any gardening today, I was happy about it but Mrs T wasn't so much...still there is always next week....

I masked the yellow off and used some Alclad gloss black primer gave it a polish after about an hour and then I sprayed two coats of polished Aluminum over that( polishing between each coat ) and plopped the prop on for the photo because I'm like that...impetuous.



I will have to drill a hole just behind the cockpit for the aerial post that I had forgotten to do before spraying the yellow.

Next major thing to do will be to attach the lower wing, fill the gaps and then spray with Alclad, that will be done next weekend.
Time fillers will be to paint the wheel covers red, I can do that at least during the week.....
I have next weekend to finish as I don't think I will get much done during the week because of my shifts.

Regards
Mark

[ShaunW]

That looks very smart Mark, I've only just caught up with this build but there is some great work going into it. Rain stopped gardening play eh? no such luck up here, it's been sunny all weekend and she's had me out there aplenty!

[TimJ]

Nice work so far and a great colour scheme.

[Clashcityrocker]

Looking Veerry nice.

Nigel

[reinhold]

PK-1, very appropriate! A very nice choice of subject, Mark.
Spinner is looking very nice.
Believe it or not, but I picked the same irressistible Flying Training School scheme when I built mine!
Mine was built very basic though, without rigging.
Seeing all those little holes drilled, this one is going to look awesome when finished..

Reinhold

[Stevehnz]

I like this rather a lot, nice & colourful, much nicer that all silver, it'll look a treat with its markings on.
Steve.