Fairey Firefly
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The British Way...1/48 Sherman Firefly Ic
My dad´s next little armour project for diversion.
Tamiya kit built oob, only added an antenna. Painted with AK Real Color British SCC15 Olive Drab.
It´s one of Tamiya´s older kits with a metal lower hull. Gives the model nice weight [...]
Fairey Firefly 1/48 Trumpeter
My first finished model this year.
Trumpeter Firefly
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 [...]
Fairey AS 5 Firefly, N1-VX-385, 817 Sqn RAN HMAS Sydney 1951.
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
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 [...]
Special Hobby 1/48 Firefly Mk.V
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 [...]
1/48 Fairey Firefly FR.I
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. [...]
1/48 Firefly FR.4
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 [...]
1/48 Fairey Firefly MK I by Grand Phoenix
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 [...]
