1/48 Tamiya Fairey Swordfish floatplane

by Marko Skukan

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Hi everyone, this is my second article to ARC and this time it is my Tamiya Fairey Swordfish floatplane in 1/48 updated with Tamiya and Eduard photo-etched parts. The decals came from the box and are a bit too sturdy and thick, so I used a hair dryer and Gunze Mr Mark Softer to make them look ok.  The metal finish is Gunze super fine silver, which is very good.  You can apply a wash on it and touch it after only few minutes. For the wash I used enamel colours.

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When these pictures were taken some minor details were missing, most of them were easy to break.
I needed a break from current project, so I started this one, eventually it came out that a lot of
work was required and it was far from relaxation, but I am very pleased with the final result.

There were few problems, most of them are standard, but the one problem I should point out is with one float. When I attached the floats on the legs on the right float, it wasn't parallel with the left, so I had to make new holes in the float  to the left to make the floats parallel.
Anyway, this is probably the best model I have ever build.

Regards from Croatia,

Skuki

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Photos and text © by Marko Skukan