Hawker Sea Swallow

[loupgarou]

You could but he'd want to clean it up if he wants to convince his bosses.

Or introduce his girlfriend to the bosses...

[Captain Canada]

Oh man that just looks so right.....excellent work !

[The Rat]

The empennage from a Hunter would probably be easiest to obtain, and would certainly look the part.

[loupgarou]

The empennage from a Hunter would probably be easiest to obtain, and would certainly look the part.

I am afraid I don't have any Hunter (and I'd need one for another project). I will rummage in the left overs, else I'll cut and shape one, it's not difficult, just boring. 

[PR19_Kit]

A Harrier fin has a similar Hawker profile as well.

[loupgarou]

Having more or less tamed my airbrush, I restarted some forgotten models.
After more PSR, and primer,  I am preparing my Sea Swallow for paint. Dark green lines aren't pre-post-under-over shading, but just to try to fill scratches etc following a tip seen recently. 
Problem: re-reading the answers in this topic, I found useful suggestions about using another fin. I had completely forgotten about that, even glued the rudder, so now I'll have to cut the original one, find another etc. 

[Captain Canada]

Nice to se this one back from the land that time forgot ! Looking forward to seeing her dressed up !

[RAFF-35]

Just want to add to the list and say how pretty this is, good job sir 

[steelpillow]

Great to see it back. Surely a pair of de Havilland Gyron Juniors - the engine that powered the original Blackburn NA.39 Buccanneer - in the wings. The slim engine fairings have no room for the big-diameter centrifugal compressors of the Sea Hawk's generation. Nobody else (outside the whiffyverse) made an axial-flow engine in the right class. The contemporary DH 110 Sea Vixen needed a pair of huge and thirsty R-R Avons to give worse payload-range.

[chrisonord]

This looks very nice, looking forward to seeing it finished.   
Chris.

[loupgarou]

Thanks for all the nice encouragement posts.
As previously had been suggested that a swept fin was more appropriate, I cut the original Seahawk one, scanned and printed the P1081 drawing (from the Hawker Putnam book) in the right size and cut form plasticart. This is the central layer.



Now all 3 have been glued together and put under pressure till tomorrow.

[dogsbody]

You didn't find that flatiron in a hobby store. That looks to be at least a century and a half old. There were a few kicking around in the family home I grew up in. It was built in 1888. My sister inherited the house and still lives there. I imagine the irons are still there too and out on display with all the other antiques my parents collected and inherited. It was like living in a frikkin' museum.


Chris

[PR19_Kit]

It's looking better by the minute, er, year. 

[loupgarou]

You didn't find that flatiron in a hobby store. That looks to be at least a century and a half old. There were a few kicking around in the family home I grew up in. It was built in 1888. My sister inherited the house and still lives there. I imagine the irons are still there too and out on display with all the other antiques my parents collected and inherited. It was like living in a frikkin' museum.


Chris

Yes, it's a family heirloom. 
My family NEVER threw anything away  , and I am the last one, so I found myself with all sort of strange things. At least the flatirons are useful as weights, I do also book restorations (as a hobby) and use them all the time.

[loupgarou]

It's looking better by the minute, er, year.