1/72 PM Hawker Sea-Fury

Gallery Article by Paolo De Sanctis on Mar 21 2011

 

The real thing: the Hawker Sea Fury was a British fighter developed for the Royal Navy by Hawker during the W.W. II. The last piston-engined fighter to serve with the Royal Navy, it was also one of the fastest production single propeller-driven aircraft ever built.

The Sea Fury F 10 replaced the Seafires on most carriers. Sea Furies were issued to Nos. 736, 738, 759 and 778 Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm and remained the Fleet Air Arm’s primary fighter-bomber until 1953 and the introduction of the Hawker Sea-Hawk and Supermarine Attacker.

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For this model I can say the same as per my previous Firefly; an early '90s assembly, I built it OOB utilising the same R.N./F.A.A. colours.  A nice kit to build of the often neglected PM, I choose to finish it in the colours of the Canadian Navy.

I would like to devote it to my great friend John Smalbrugge and the wonderful IPMS Fraser Valley Model Club from Abbotsford BC!

Paolo De Sanctis

Photos and text © by Paolo De Sanctis