The Firefly Channel at iModeler (9 articles)

The Firefly Channel at iModeler

Fairey Firefly

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9 articles
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On This Day…November 26th.

by david leigh-smith on November 26, 2018
in News — 21 Comments

P51 D Mustang assigned to 2SF, 8th Air Force which crash landed at RAF Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire on 26th November, 1944. Pilot Lt Marvin H Castleberry survived the hard landing. Any landing you walk away from... A Bf 109 E from JG 26. Fr[...]

Trumpeter Firefly

by Jeff Carle on June 20, 2018
in Aviation — 16 Comments

I have waited a while for a 48 scale kit that suited my modeling skills, and still I wait! This kit is nicely molded, but the fit is quite “fiddly”. I will post more as I work through this, but I had to remove a lot of locating ribs to fit the f[...]

Fairey AS 5 Firefly, N1-VX-385, 817 Sqn RAN HMAS Sydney 1951.

by Allan J Withers on April 12, 2016
in Aviation — 9 Comments

1/72 Special Hobby, my first Firefly, I modified and replaced a few things, finished in Model Master, Xtracolor X5, enamels with Halo decals, Future and Xtraflat

RAN Fairey Firefly AS.6 cockpit

by Stellan Schroeder Englund on December 7, 2015
in Aviation — 5 Comments

Here are a few photos from Australian National Avation Museum at Moorabbin airport, Melbourne, Australia. Thought someone might like a "sit-around" in the cockpit of Fairey Firefly AS.6, WD 827. General impression is good view forward and to the[...]

Special Hobby 1/48 Firefly Mk.V

by Tom Cleaver on October 1, 2015
in Aviation — 9 Comments

During the last year of the Second World War, the Fairey Firefly F.R.I had proven itself the best British designed carrier strike aircraft used in the conflict. With the end of the war and the need to get rid of the U.S. carrier aircraft provid[...]

1/48 Fairey Firefly FR.I

by John Healy on September 11, 2014
in Aviation — 20 Comments

Firefly mania continued unabated in my workshop all summer! This is the newish Special Hobby kit completed as an example from 1770NAS, HMS Indefatigable during the "Operation Lentil" strike on Japanese refineries in Malaya. It still bears Ea[...]

1/48 Firefly FR.4

by John Healy on July 30, 2014
in Aviation — 22 Comments

This is the recent Special Hobby kit finished as a Dutch Navy example based in New Guinea. These were the last Fireflies in service anywhere, and were replaced by Hawker Hunters in 1962. The model assembles extremely well and really puts Speci[...]

1/48 Fairey Firefly MK I by Grand Phoenix

by Michael Wayne Knowles on August 29, 2013
in Aviation — 10 Comments

The Firefly was a replacement for the Fairey Fulmer shipboard two-seat fighter. The British felt that over water flights were too exhausting, so they added a navigator / observer to share the load with the pilot. This may have provided some le[...]

Firefly Mk.I 1/72 Восточный Экспресс (ex-FROG)

by Korolev Vlad on July 29, 2013
in Aviation — 6 Comments

One of my old works. Modified the interior: the instruments, sight, replaced the second cockpit glazing, made lamp, rearview mirror. Wells made the wheel bays. Painted by Humbrol, Revell. Best regards, Vlad.