Swiftly and with style?

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February 16, 2020
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Is it the new briliant design by Airfix?
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June 25, 2020
Reinforcements have arrived, luckily it was a twin-pack 🙂
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June 25, 2020
Cause I had to go for the full one (Still it's a bit smaller than original)
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June 25, 2020
Port side was easy-peasy
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June 25, 2020
Starboard required some additional corrections.
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June 25, 2020
But I announce it done.
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June 25, 2020
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June 25, 2020
Aaaaaand back on track.
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July 24, 2020
Minor fixes needed
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July 24, 2020
Sprayed and sealed
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July 24, 2020
Stencils part I...
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and II.
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July 24, 2020
Time for markings.
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July 24, 2020
They adhere and react to MicroSol very well.
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July 24, 2020
And the topside is done 🙂
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August 22, 2020
Almost there, but the original pitot didn't look good enough for me
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August 23, 2020
Kristal Klear for the other transparencies.
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August 23, 2020
The last thing - the gaugy agent on top.
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And it's done!
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Comments

14 16 February 2020, 16:01

16 February 2020, 17:47

Łukasz Gliński
Welcome Maciej. I managed to fix the hole behind the cockpit, later on it turned out the price was too low front of the cockpit, including the gunsight.

16 February 2020, 21:04

Łukasz Gliński
Have to put this on hold. Somehow I reached the FUBAR state with the canopy, need a vacu replacement. Thus I need to wait till my next shopping in the Netherlands. Still wondering how I have made that hole... 🙁

23 February 2020, 14:08

Łukasz Gliński
Reinforcements have arrived - vacu canopy is there. Finished spraying underside today, love that colour! 🙂

25 June 2020, 21:04

Oleg Bogolei
Very nice progress, as usually)

26 June 2020, 09:41

Cuajete
I was missing this job. Following!

26 June 2020, 12:20

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks, just finished masking the blue part 🙂

26 June 2020, 14:20

Łukasz Gliński
Sprayed (nose fix was necessary), sealed, stencilled and marked.
To be continued after the summer break...

24 July 2020, 21:35

Mirko Römer
Successful evening 🙂

24 July 2020, 21:36

Łukasz Gliński
Indeed 😄

24 July 2020, 21:36

Andy Ball
Wanna follow this Swift before it goes South for winter!

26 July 2020, 18:06

Łukasz Gliński
You should get one too, very nice kit if you avoid breaking the canopy😉
Airfix made my day once they released it 🙂

26 July 2020, 18:31

Andy Ball
Looks like the fuselage was a bit tricky going together?

27 July 2020, 10:39

Łukasz Gliński
Not so much. If you mean the exhaust pipe, it's designed this way.

27 July 2020, 10:52

Andy Ball
picture no. 3?

27 July 2020, 11:10

Łukasz Gliński
Dry-fitting as far as I remember, but penetration glue solved the problem 🙂

27 July 2020, 13:37

Thomas Kolb
I completely missed this one, but it sure looks nice! Apart from the first canopy... oops. If you don't mind me asking, what did you do, sanded it with a dremel?

29 July 2020, 13:10

Łukasz Gliński
Well, at first I thought it's scratched and tried polishing it. First using some polishing cloths, then switched to my Lidl-branded-dremel-like tool. It turned however it was perforated already 🙁

29 July 2020, 18:39

Cuajete
Łukasz, you can try to request a spare here. For now maybe there is some problem due to the current pandemic, but you could try 😉

airfix.com/uk-en/contact

29 July 2020, 18:49

Łukasz Gliński
Thx for the hint, I did try it, but the answer was "we have run out of this part"

29 July 2020, 19:27

playtime 222
Ah the Swift. This is what happens when you leave a Hunter and an Attacker in the same hangar unsupervised 😄 Nice job too.

22 August 2020, 16:58

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks, your comment made my day 😄

22 August 2020, 18:40

Łukasz Gliński
Not so swiftly, but finished yesterday - enjoy the pics 🙂

23 August 2020, 08:36

Christian Bruer
Very nice work and finish 👍

23 August 2020, 09:33

Guy Rump
Beautiful model and pics, love the hangar setting 🙂

23 August 2020, 10:50

Thomas Kolb
Super nice build and great finish! Your photos are always very good BTW, I really like the natural light setting. A question, did you use your own masking tape for the camo, or some precut masking templates? Very clean and crisp lines.

23 August 2020, 13:29

Łukasz Gliński
Many thanks for your comments mates, makes me wanna build more lovely new-Airfix kits.
@Thomas: I didn't use any templates, just some blutack and masking tape.

23 August 2020, 15:55

Cuajete
Very nice model and very nice pics, Łukasz. I like specially pic number 36. Congrats!
How you have solved the canopy problem?

23 August 2020, 17:56

Łukasz Gliński
Gracias señor! I had to order the vacu replacement.

23 August 2020, 18:03

Daniel Klink
Ah the result is more than nice and absolutely convincing...👍
Always found this 50's RAF birds very appealing....
BTW Waiting til today for the Canopy replacement fo my Lightning...

23 August 2020, 18:08

Łukasz Gliński
I know that feeling 😄 I can fully recommend this kit once you start thinking of building it.

23 August 2020, 18:58

Andy Ball
She'll be flying south for winter soon!, looks great!!

23 August 2020, 19:21

playtime 222
That turned out great 😄

23 August 2020, 21:13