Photo-etched instrument panel parts for the famous Fairey Swordfish torpedo biplane in 1:72 scale, prepared for the Airfix kit.
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The Fairey Swordfish already looked like a relic in the year it entered service. A steel frame covered with fabric, open cockpits for a crew of three, fixed landing gear and a Bristol Pegasus radial under the cowling belonged more to the 1920s. Even so it served from 1936 to the end of the war and outlived the type that was meant to replace it.
In November 1940 the machines took off from the deck of the Illustrious for a night strike on the anchorage at Taranto and put three Italian battleships out of action. Half a year later one of the torpedo strikes tore through the rudder of the German Bismarck and condemned her to steaming in circles until the British force caught up with her. The low speed, which looked like a flaw, made it harder for anti-aircraft gunners to lay their sights on the target. Later the machines carried rockets and depth charges from escort carriers over the Atlantic.
The set refines the equipment of the open pilot station, which is very well visible on a model of this type. Before gluing, the plastic original has to be removed and the area leveled. Use super glue applied with a pin so that it does not flow over the front face of the panel.
For invasion stripes or large roundels a mask is the better choice, because the sprayed paint joins the surrounding finish with no visible step. Small service placards and lettering panels, on the other hand, remain the domain of printed film, because detail of that kind could not be cut out.
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