Have I already mentioned I like Airfix navy planes? This Armstrong Whitworth Seahawk is such a elegant example of 50's style aviation design that it appears to be in flight on the desktop too. Also the Gloster Meteor/Hawker Hunter-type genealogy is clearly evident in the flowing shapes. It's surprisingly small for an attack plane, like when compared to a Fairey Swordfish navy biplane.
The Airfix kit was a bit letdown: opaque decals, sink marks at prominent places, poor seams for gluing the parts and so on so this became another "test build sample". I also tried some different techniques which failed this time, so this kit has to be built again with better luck.
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| Swordfish and Seahawk in 1/72 scale comparison |
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