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- A while back I built this Airfix Hawker Fury in 1:48 scale but never got around to making a video of it. Probably due to all the problems I had with the build. So here is my full build and review where I show the issues and how I solved them to get a reasonable result.
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You made a great build of an old kit. It's not been treated nicely by the pass of time but, then again, who hasn't? Well done, sir.
Thanks Matey
Harry, the end result of the build is outstanding!!! I really like the work you did on the Hawker Fury.
Glad you like it Rick
I was looking at getting this kit but I think I'll save the heartbreak so thanks for the heads-up 🙂
Lovely finish by the way!
It is a lot of work to make good... maybe they will re-mould it soon. I hear the Lindberg kit is actually better, and that is saying something, considering how bad many Lindberg kits are.
You prevailed and the model looks superb :) From time to time a challenge like that is a good thing, so we remember how things used to be and what kind of paradise we life in now with all these gorgeous kits that come out these days.
Yes, you learn more from mistakes and trials than by just building a Tamiya shake & bake kit.
thank you for the heads up I have to get in my stash. you done an excellent job.
Thanks matey... it was a struggle but I got there.
Looks great!
I'm tackling a vintage classics 1/72 P-61 at the moment and it very much has the same issues you mentioned here. It's funny because my first encounter with a vintage classics kit was the 1/72 Hs-123, and that was actually really nice. A real joy to build. You'd be forgiven for thinking it was a recently tooled kit, despite the tooling being from 1970.
I'm still new to this hobby and my experience with the Henschel had me thinking that Airfix kits of that era were all of similar quality, so I was in for a bit of a shock when I got stuck into the P-61 and found it to be a whole different kettle of fish. Flash galore, very rough edges on almost every part, lots of trimming and checking before parts are ready to be glued together, parts that just straight up don't fit without considerable modification, the list goes on. It was fighting back the whole way and is going to need a lot of filler and sanding to deal with the gaps.
That said, I am still having fun with it in some kind of strange masochistic way. And watching this video is giving me confidence that with the time and effort I can hopefully get it looking even half as good as your Fury here does. It's great to see just what can be done with these difficult kits. Well done! :)
Sometimes those not so perfect kits give you more enjoyment than a shake’n’bake kit, because you get to put more of yourself into the build.
Looks great! I think a lot of times a good paint and decaling can make up for a less than perfect kit.
I ended up getting a 1980's pressing of this kit off Ebay since I really like the subject.
Lindburg also has a kit of this plane thats marginally better. Neither one has much of a cockpit, but I'm in the process of scrachbuilding a simple cockpit. Might even finish it one day.
I’ve seen the Lindburg kit and it apparently fits a lot better. Still a White box Airfix original may have less problems than my half century old Red Box re-issue
Well, quite a nice kit in the end, you did a hell of a good job. I love the Fury since I was a kid and watch it on some shops. I was about to buy it, but decided to have a look first here on CZcams. Thank God I did!!!! That sprues...dear God!!!! Thanks , your video saved me some money and a lot of stress! Cheers!
The 1968 Impact kit is reported to be much better. It was reboxed by Pyro then Lindberg.
www.scalemates.com/kits/lindberg-918-hawker-fury--145987
I'd been thinking of getting this one - thanks for taking a look at it so I could make a choice :P
Still a buildable kit, just needs a lot of attention
Lovely little kit
It’s a dreadful reboxing of an old poor kit, but can be made into a reasonable model with some fettling, Really needs to be retooled like the recent Airfix Bristol Bulldog, but with a pilot instead of an over engineered mostly hidden interior.
Both of the Hawkers look great, well done!....Bill
Thanks Bill... still need to rig the Matchbox one... no rush on that!
built the matchbox one ages ago, didn't turn out too good due to my very limited skills at the time, but the kit was a joy to do.
Those Matchbox kits are always fun.
Nice job. Looks great 👍👍
Thanks matey
Turned out great, like it.
Thanks Matey
I hope that Airfix will make a 100% new molds one, the aircraft itself deserves it....plus, I'd love to see many more between the wars machines in modern 21st century molds!
Onwards and upwards to 1,000,000 views! 🤜🏻🤛🏻✊🏻
Think I might get a couple, just to practice rigging etc., etc., don't mind the age of the kit!
With some fettling it came up ok. If I built it again, I’d know the issues ahead and scratch build parts to fix it.
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Doooo iiiiit....you know that you want to!
Just had my Eduard 1/48 Hannover CL.IIIa delivered this morning, one could say that they've moved on a tad, not much styrene but plenty much of PE and a whitemetal engine! 😳😲
The decals looks great as well....
On to watch your Roden 1/48 Junkers D.I videos....
I watched this specifically for that silvery-surface tip, thank you. Need it for one on my table, will see how it ends up. Very nice work as always, HH.
I used Stynylrez metal primer, then a layer of Lifecolor Aluminium, and finally dry brushed on both Lifecolor Gunmetal and Silver until I got the shine I wanted.
Thank you HH. That helps tremendously.
My pleasure... let me know how you get on.
Hey Harry!!. Nice build. Hope your in a safe area, away from the fires brother. Stay safe.
Fires in Queensland were over, for the most part, just before Christmas when the Monsoon rains began in the tropics.
Dang nice model, mate. It looks awesome!
Thanks matey
What a terrific job Harry, well done....you don't like the pilots? I love planes with pilots, tanks with men.....my friend s bag me non stop about it....we're all different and that's what make life interesting....lol well ✔️ done
I like them if someone else paints them for me… too tiny for my bandicoot eyes and wobbly wombat fingers to paint.
Nice one Harry. I used KitKat (chocolate bar)foil to do the metal parts, burnished to fit and held in place with gloss varnish. Bit less labour intensive.
You had me at chocolate....
In spite of all your criticisms, it looks pretty damn good!
I wish they would re release all their WW1 and interwar models in new mould 48th scale! PLEASE?
Thanks and yes, if Airfix retooled this kit I would be one of the first to buy it.
Wow, lovely biplan!
Thanks Phil
Nice job.
Thanks Duck.. your cheque is in the mail ;)
Harry, nice build. I know exactly what you went through because I built this same kit a few years ago and I had so many problems with it. I had to correct all the things you mentioned. I rigged mine with mono filament line and it has since come apart. I should have used ez line like you did. I am going to wait till airfix re-tools the molds for this kit. Meanwhile, I am waiting for Airfix release of their DH 82 Tiger month in 1/48 scale. I should have been released in 2019 but probably in the next few months. I am working on the Revell Moraine Sauliner N in 1/72 from 1965 to go with the Airfix Fokker E II in 1/72., which I also built.
Yes the Airfix 1:48 Tiger Moth is on my want list too. Hopefully it will be as nice as their 1:72 new mould kit.. just bigger!
Harry Houdini Models I tried building the 1/72 tiger moth three times but could not get it done because it is so small and tidally. I can’t keep my hands steady. But I can do a 1/48 scale. I might post my 1/72 Moraine Sauliner N when I complete it.
My hands and eyes are not what they used to be... so I sympathise. But we just push on and find ways of coping.
That matchbox hawker fury is tiny then again the airfix one is not really that much larger. Thanks for another good video Harry
This is why biplanes are better in 1/32 or larger scales… so you can actually see the model. Thanks for watching Captain.
The metal effects look great,and the tape ribbing on fuesalage looks perfect.I really have to be less of a snob when looking for kits.Might get to build a Beaufighter then.
The Revell Beaufighter in 1:48 is a very nice kit. Airfix only has it in 1:72 but the new tool version is superb
Cheers.I think i'm going too far down the rabbit hole,more complex kits for the sake of the challenge over enjoyment.Maybe a simpler build will put the emphasis on the painting,and the Beaufighter was 'The' plane in the little war comics when i was a kid.
Nice job, It's odd that Airfik hasn't released the Fury in 1/72 scale.
They did the Sea Fury in 1/72, but not the Hawker Fury I bi-plane.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Aside from a few Short Run kits ,Lindberg made( makes) the Fury also in 1/48
1/48th looks tiny doesn't it?
That's a lovely finish 😘
Might do a biplane one day. Try rigging for the first time 😱
Not for the faint hearted Basil… but if and when you do some rigging, I can help with tips… that is if you tip me hehehe
Thanks for this review - it's really helpful. A shame Airfix's recent releases are such a mix of newly tooled kits and old molds like this. Borderline dishonesty really. As you say, their recent kits like the Spitfires etc are excellent, so why tarnish that with releases like this? That said, you have done a great job turning it into a very final model. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
Glad it was helpful matey
Hi harry, great build 👍🏻. A kit I’ve recently been interested in is the hobby boss 1/350 dunkerque have you heard much about this kit? I’m relatively new and for whatever reason French battleships appeal to me. Thanks!
I have the Dunkerque and it is a superb model.. needs very little else. You could build it out of the box and get a great result. However I’ve bought the wood veneer deck, with the few extra PE rails the standard kit is missing, and some metal barrels, but that’s all I will add.
Harry Houdini Models Thanks you for the swift reply, will have to order her up and give it a try.
Harry Houdini Models I know it’s probably in a video, but where do you get your PE, barrels and veneer decks.
I buy my aftermarket parts locally if I can from BNA in Melbourne. But if they are out of stock I search eBay for the parts.
Master make the barrel set: www.scalemates.com/kits/master-sm-350-101-dunkerque-strasbourg-barrels-330mm-8-pcs-130-mm-16-pcs-with-resin-mounts--1143579
and you can get a wood veneer deck from Artwox or Never Set in China. Never Set tend to be thinner and without the cartoon markings of Artwox, but the Artwox also has the extra Photoetch fret, which is all you need, seeing as the Hobby Boss kit already comes with a lot of PE.
really enjoyed this, i will not be buying this one for sure.but your's turned out great.
I suffer, so you don’t have to!
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Bonza job on that kit mate, genius. could you put me in touch with this Percy Vere bloke, I could use his services at the moment.
Best ask Bask Dercat, he feeds her.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Thanks mate, tell Bask I'll be in touch haha!.
She likes Fish bribes ;)
You did a grand job on the old girl shagger, pour yourself a large cuppa!
Gonna get the old Matchbox kit plus their Siskin....having a bit shopping spree of old kits that I built as a wee lad in Sweden, good fun and cheap(ish) way to time travel! 😉
Recently I had my old classic Airfix and Matchbox Wellington's delivered, in the non political correct box for Airfix and the first release of Matchbox, the one with the darker sky....Roy Cross and Roy Huxley, damn yous two!! 😉😆😂
I'm quite tempted to get this Airfix kit, if for no other reason but to my building etc., etc....love the era between the wars, would LOVE to see more kits of that period!!
Always Be Learning as an ancient philosopher once said! 😉😆😂
Btw....when are you gonna slap together the next Wingnut Wings kit?
I have the Wingnut W.12 ready for a video as soon as I get time to shoot the button up.
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Excellent!!
I'll put the kettle on then and wait....😉😆😂
Impressive build considering the poor quilty of the kit
Thanks matey... looking back now I think I hated the build so much it might have been why I didn’t make a video at the time.. now looking at the model.. it’s not as bad as I remember.
I might be mistaken but it sounds to me even though it was an awful kit you actually enjoyed all the challenges it presented rather than just a simple build straight out the box easy. In other words you're a sucker for punishment haha
It is true… I do enjoy a challenge… never liked shake’n’bake kits
You consider that a dated ki! Actually, the earlier releases of this kit had much better fit than you experienced with the 21st century re-release.
Did you ever build any of the Pyro/Lifelike 1/48 kits of the Fury, Gamecock or Bulldog, from 25 years before the Airfix Fury. Actually, they were quite good--ahead of their time, and the only game in town. After Lifellke folded, the molds went to Russia, to reappear under the Merit label, a big number of the kits never reappearing.
I really wish manufacturers would take more of an interest from the "golden" era of aviation, the 1930's. There are many handsome a/c, from many countries.
Pyro/Lifelike were an American manufacturer that we never saw down under. Gamecock seem to just make vac form kits, and Bulldog I know nothing about. The vintage modelling scene in America is very parochial, so the rest of the world knows little of those limited run home grown kits.
I do agree with you on inter-war subjects. But there are quite a number of new kits now being tooled from manufacturers like AMP.
@HarryHoudiniModels Just a FYI: Pyro was big in U.S. in 50s & first half of 60s. They had a huge line of injection molded, accurate and detailed, obscure subjects for even back then, like many of very first automobiles and aeroplanes, staggecoaches, wagons, British 30s biplanes, paddlewheel steamers, etc., etc. Quite good, ahead of their time w/r to detail and accuracy. I always thought their "esoteric" subjects--the modeling world wanted Spitfires, 109s, jets, tanks & such--was the reason they went under. With XKEs and the like in the latest kits, you had to be a bit of a nerd to buy the Hupmobile kit.
Many of these now never to be kitted again subjects can usually be reasonably be had off Ebay
That's to bad it's a good looking plane
It is a pretty aircraft. Maybe one day soon Airfix will do a new CAD moulding of her.
Looks like a real dog of a kit.
I almost hit it with a bone!
A Silk Purse...…….
Thanks James
hi harry,a good job on a crap kit.i do not not not like the airfix blue plastic.the b 26 is god shockingly bad.extra thin melted the spinner on a 109.how is that.oh well bitch over.cheers mate
It’s currified plastic! Gets the runs
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Goat!
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Of course.... plus papadams!
NOPE !! This is NOT an Airfix kit. At least, they did not make the molds !!
This is an Inpact Kits kit. "Inpact" witn an N, not an M.
First release was in 1968. In the years after, this kit was also sold in boxes from Pyro, Life-Like, Lindberg and Airfix.
Airfix was the last one to update the - by then already - heavily worn molds, but that was a long time ago......
As far as I know, no manufacturer has ever made a better version in this scale, so if you buy one, it will almost certainly be one of the old crappy Inpact mold kits...............
Yep... 52 years old. And it shows.
That explains a lot... although, all first hand accounts I received said the Lindburg kit did not have the issues I experienced. Those moulds must be rooted. Bad Airfix!
That's because of the age of the molds !
Right now, I am building an old Smer Spad S.VII. My uncle was a fanatic scale modeler. He gave me many built models, one of them was the old Spad.
I can tell by certain details that it absolutely is from the same molds. But the quality of that old first issue is FAR better than what comes out today, after decades of use....... Those molds clearly took a beating.
Even after only TEN years, I can see a big difference in the 1:48 Boeing Stearman, issued by Revell.
The first issue had a GREAT fit. It was SUCH a good model, I could not believe it was an original Revell kit.
Today, the molds are being used by a Chinese company. The plastic is a somewhat transparent yellow instead of solid grey, and the parts fit not nearly as well.....!!! Lots of flash, too. The first issue did not have flash at all.....
So here is a lesson : always buy the first issue of a model. And if you buy and old kit, make sure it's old. Make sure it's an early release. The decals will be useless by now, but new ones can be found easily.
First issue or 20th re-issue decades later....... it makes a HUGE difference !!!
Yes, I did discus that very point a few months back in one of my ‘The Untold Gooch’ videos
nope, Airfix folklore has it down as a 'unfinshed Merit Tool' Airfix purchased and 1st released in 1980. The PYRO is here and isn't the same kit: czcams.com/video/J0bOis5Sjjs/video.html
It’s an Airfix designed and tooled kit from 1980 according to scalemates. If you check the full history it shows the inpact Fury history line as being from 1968 with the Airfix fury being a new tooled kit from 1980.