1/72 Airfix Swordfish

[Daryl J.]

I cannot wait to see what happens over the next several years as the new Swordfish cycles through Whiffery Circles.   



Daryl J.
PS: If there's a better place for the subject, feel free to move it.  However, I'm not intending this as a Swordfish idea generation thread, just sharing some enthusiasm for what appears to be a brilliant effort on Airfix' part. 

[The Rat]

Engine upgrade would be the most obvious one, P&W Twin Wasp maybe?

[PR19_Kit]

Engine upgrade would be the most obvious one, P&W Twin Wasp maybe?

Go the whole hog and stick a Centaurus on there! Then Blackburn wouldn't have to bother with the Firebrand..... 

[Mossie]

Monoplane? It could have made a dive bomber in the Stuka or PZL 23 Karas mould.  It's not quite a straight Swordfish monoplane, but a proposal made around the same time.


http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,9997.0.html

[NARSES2]

Now where's BdB when you want him ? Spats oh glorious spats 

That's a nice find Mossie, thanks for sharing

[sequoiaranger]

> Spats oh glorious spats<

Actually, such extended coverings of the landing gear are NOT "Spats", but known as "trousers". "Spats" are just wheel-covers (think of the wheels as "feet"). "Trousers" cover the struts as well (think of them as the "legs").

[tigercat]

I'm tempted to cross a couple of Swordfish with a Heyford

[philp]

I'm tempted to cross a couple of Swordfish with a Heyford

Don't think that is legal, at least on this side of the pond.

Like the monoplane idea but the Airfix kits will get the RW treatment from me.  Now the Revell/Matchbox kits in the stash...

[Joe C-P]

I've had one for a while, but cannot decide what to do with it. I've consider USN and IJN, but those just didn't feel whiffey enough.
There is the "WW2 starts in the Pacific in 1933" idea someone proposed, for which I've a bipe Helldiver and the colours for a late-war three-tone; perhaps a Swordfish in late-war RN colours? Or maybe Dutch Indonesian colours and markings, if there were such?

[tigercat]

Italian Airforce maybe ?

[NARSES2]

Or maybe Dutch Indonesian colours and markings, if there were such?

The Dutch Far East AF's used the orange triangle in 1941. By the end of the war they had moved to a marking which was basically the Dutch national flag.

[pyro-manic]

Habbaniya-based ground attack? Soviet lend-lease? Impounded (or otherwise) Irish Air Corps? Greek?

[The Wooksta!]

TBH, I wouldn't waste the new Airfix Swordfish by cutting it up and adding bits.  It's too nice a kit to do that.  In addition, the Revell boxing of the old Matchbox one is at least half the price and was the best Swordfish on the market.

All I'll be doing is a simple change of markings - Glorious for the Tarranto raid that was planned for late '37 but didn't happen or an aircraft from HMS Oceanic.

A Rumanian or Bulgarian Letov S.328 with a torpedo might be more worth a spin though.  A Portugese Swordfish is plausible - they did have the Blackburn Shark.

[philp]

Hmmm...
Maybe a Dwarfish version going after some Ork tin cans.

But what markings?

[cataphractarius]

Got myself one the other day - what a lovely kit - and instantly wondered about a civilian conversion; after WW1 Brisfits and DH9s were sold off to the civilian market and did quite a good job there.

One might think of a production run of, say 10-15 aircraft, originally ordered by some undisclosed South American customer who happened to have a sudden and violent regime change in 1937-1938, so Fairy was left with these aircraft. RN didn't want them (perhaps because of a different engine?), so they sold them off to civilians.

Might even fit to the Pulp wargaming we sometimes do - the aircraft of one our heroes, a Brisfit, recently had an, uhm, rather unfortunate landing accident...  Might just as well replace it...