1/48 Tamiya Fairey Swordfish Mk II - The Tamiya kit that needed a lot of help
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In this build I follow through with the Viewer's Choice kit. Except that the wing doesn't want to line up and sets things back.
In this build I follow through with the Viewer's Choice kit. Except that the wing doesn't want to line up and sets things back.
‘Stay healthy out there and enjoy sniffing glue’ that is definitely a first 😂😂😂
My Dad served as CPO on HMS ARK ROYAL in WW2 and they operated the Stringbag . Much loved aircraft , which outlasted its replacement , the Barracuda ! lovely build . Wales UK.
Man that looks friggin amazing...
noooo you cant just jam the Bismarck's rudder haha swordfish go brrrr
Average Canadian Guy Swordfish disagrees
@@TheModelGuy wonderful!! even if you said that model can't win any prize it's anyway looking great! Tamiya's Swordfish is the best so far!
It's nice work as usual. Especially, painting is so politely. Thanks for sharing.
Great job with the swordfish, and props to you for continuing on with it.
Wow, most beautiful and impressive weathering job on this plane, congrats!!
It looks fantastic...excellent job admire the rigging very much.
Great work. Thanks for showing the struggle you had and how you solved it. Good for us to know that even people who's work is as good as yours have serious setbacks and lose their mojo
Always brilliant video
Thank you :)
*Very nice build, the ropes are simple and realistic. 👍*
Beautiful Model of a Beautiful Aircraft.One of My Favourites.
Wow, I really like your approach to the base coat!!! I am too afraid with rigging, but you gave me motivation to try it out!!! Great video!!!
Awesome video! I was in Sea Cadets Program (Canadian) as a kid, there was a model ship building club and got me hooked on model building. Wonderful to see someone else with a similar experience.
Great historical narration Buddy. Very mesmerizing. Great build...👍
That's a great looking swordfish 😁👌
Wow, that's a great recovery from a nose dive. Kudos
The Swordfish is one of my fave WW2 aircraft, have built a few in my time. Yours came out really nice , despite that little wing issue.
Amazing! Have a few spare model on my hands already, but really makes me wanna get one! You do an amazing job! Congratulations and greetings from France! Ihave an unfinished tamiya 1/48 RAF buffalo that is unfinished and untouched for months! Need to get around to it, but I find this hobby more inspiring in winter.
Nice job Robbie with your stringbag - good save in the end! Looking forward to your next one. Cheers, Chris.
Nice build nice work on the step love how you did the paint job nice work 👍
very precisely and realistically made model and interesting tips , stay healthy !
Wonderful video and very nicely detailed and organized. I can image it took lots of time and effort to finish. Also subbed!
Great save on the wings Robbie. I’ve always wanted to build a biplane, and I love the Swordfish, but seeing the issues you had I have to say I’m still not convinced it’s something I want to attempt yet.
Very nice build.
A great little build, there are times that things don't go the way you want you just do the best you can. I think you did a great job. I remember my first bi-plane wiring job on the old Revell WW1 aircraft, I think I grew 8 extra thumbs...LOL.
The Swordfish was a classic example of the RN Fleet Air Arm approach to the North Atlantic campaign. The armament was not a Lewis Gun but a Vickers K gun. Both guns appear very similar with their top mounted round magazine. I really enjoyed your voice over regarding the Bismarck while working on the model.
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing👍
Disaster or not, the end result is beautiful. Obviously a handsome aircraft.
Splendid result 👍
Excellent build, I think I may try to pick one of these up. Nasty fit or seams are always a mojo killer for me, especially when you know you're going to remove a tonne of detail in trying to sand it all.
That is a beautifull plane!
Very nice end result. I like the history of the aircraft and its missions as you build as well - great touch. Biggest disaster - building a small diorama, adding my carefully built Schwimmwagen, then pouring the resin for the water it was driving through. The resin went crazy, bubbling up and generating ridiculous amounts of heat. Luckily I was able to paint over it with brown to simulate dirty water.
Model Nerd I want to use resin water and have heard that story a few times. Makes me a bit gun shy to do it
I've got a kit that was sitting on the shelf for 16 months, before I restarted it - Academy's B-29A!
My modeling disaster was a model boat whose hull simply wouldn't glue together. If I applied pressure to any part of the boat, such as the when I was gluing some detail parts to the deck, the hull would split. I tried fixing it with Tamiya putty, but that didn't hold either. I didn't have any apoxy putty like mjlliput on hand at the time or I probably would have been able fix it that way, so I ended up just tossing it aside. I might go back to it one day but I've mostly been ignoring it.
Cheers for the shout out! I’m sorry about the mojo killing part of the kit but you nailed it in the end. Great work once again!
cong404040 thank you for sending it!
One that really killed my mojo for long time was the ICM Dornier 17Z. I spent hrs with Eduard PE in cockpit, masking canopies. I should have twigged something was up as the bulkheads wouldn't fit correctly and I had to trim one and fill the other. When I went to fit the wings together I found the upper and lower halves were warped as were the fuselage sides, hence the bulkheads not fitting. I tried and tried to straighten thinks out but in the end all I have left are two engines. They were the best part.
I find that my modeling sessions are not so much about accomplishing a great build, as much as they are about fixing my screw-ups. After a month of steadily repairing, repainting and resanding, I am left with something that kind of resembles the model on the box top! Love this video, I also have a Swordfish in my stash that I haven’t managed to work up the courage to tackle, but after watching this episode I am filled with hope. It will be my first rigged biplane as well. Great job! Marty
That's usually the trials with any Airfix build :)
EXCELLENT BUILD, WISH THERE WAS MORE ON RIGGING, TRYING TO LEARN. FYI, COWL IS ACTUALLY AN EXHAUST COLLECTOR RING COMMON ON BRIT RADIALS. BEAFIGHTER ETC. ANYWAY ANOTHER GREAT BUILD, AND WILL BE WATCHING FOR MORE. THANKS
Revell 1/48 Superhornet has been on the shelf for almost a year due to numerous fit issues. Maybe one day when I finish the other kits in my stash I'll get back to it.
Suggestion maybe try something civilian my personal suggestion is a BN-2 island I think valom and 26 models do them in 1/48 love to see one in FIGAS livery anyway love the model you really went all out keep up the outstanding work
Nice build! Maybe consider doing something like an Amodel Antonov airliner or something like an Antonov 2? Anyways awesome job, can’t wait for the next one
Thanks for sharing.
Looks good
What I find is I spend at least half my time when modeling repairing my mistakes. AK Extreme metal paint is wonderful for illustrating the limitations of my modeling skills. So many little scratches. So much time to fix. Then it is fiddly bits and little parts, gear doors, stuff like that breaks off so easily and it always upsets me. I can look at kit parts and know instantly what will break where no matter how careful I am. I am forever trying to get better at protecting the kit mid build, you really need to protect it when ya walk away when you own cats. What has made me walk away from a kit for months and years at at time is my frustration with my poor modeling skills. Recently I forced myself to finish 2 that I had been wanting to see done and now they are finished. I am now trying to teach myself how to work as efficiently as possible and reduce the mistakes. Not an easy task, but I am trying.
I built Revell's 72nd scale "Memphis Belle" B-17. I built mine as Yee Olde Pub. In the build process, I ran into one hell of a snag where, the 2 halves of the fuselage were WAY off allong the top spine. I spent HOURS sanding internal assemblies to close the gap. By the time I called the ball and went with "looks good enough" I had a ton of hours into fine tuning and I STILL don't know what went wrong. I had to have done something wrong with the internal assemblies. Revell put together a beautifully detailed kit and I may have a go at it again. Thats my story for "the one that almost put me in the nuthouse". :)
I also built that 1/72 Memphis Bell and it was horrible. I had so many warped pieces and bad fit it put me off Revell. I only touch their reboxed stuff.
Here's my modeling disaster: As a kid I read "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" to TATTERS. I was -- am -- nuts about the B-25. When the Accurate Miniatures B-25B came out I was in heaven. I was nearly done with my nearly perfect Ruptured Duck when I ripped the decal of the nose art. To this day that model sits in my stash. And yes I know I could have asked for new decals. I actually bought the Italeri rerelease so I have new decals. I just can't face it. I don't know why. Maybe some day.
Beautiful build. Would like to do Tamiya's Swordfish but being a biplane, can't face the rigging - let alone attempting the turnbuckles that some do.
Great build! Here's my modelling disaster: I had sprayed Revell acrylic gloss with a spray can on an Airfix 1/48 BF109 after applying all of the decals and had left it overnight. It felt dry and hardened so I went on to do a pin wash with oils. I was using cheap white spirit I got from a 1 euro store and everything seemed to be going well at first. But as soon as I was wiping away the oils all of the paint layers were suddenly peeling off completely and dissolving and it was even eating into some of the glued parts. Thankfully I always wear gloves when handling models. I put it down for a bit to see what would happen, and the model was totally destroyed by the stuff after a few hours. Peeling all over the place and strangely a lot of glued parts were letting go even though I used Tamiya extra thin and the like. So I tossed the model. Apparently, the white spirit I used was a bad batch that was super aggressive, even though it stated it was odourless. The fact that it wasn't odourless should have tipped me off.
You should use it to clean your airbrushes that sounds stronger than the Tamia stuff
Great kit and build 👍👊💪 and a great repair job 🙂 although I am not entirely sure that it was your fault 🤔 maybe a faulty kit piece 🙄 anyway love the channel and your work 👍
I have one build that I gave up on and it was a sword fish as well, I was too rough with some parts of the sprew wich broke one of the things that keeps both the wings together, I don’t think I’ll ever come back to it unfortunately even though the swordfish is one of my favourate air planes :(
I had that kit built the upper and lower wing put the braces in had the wings complete drop one of them during painting and it went to pieces that was about five years ago I put it up and never got it back out
I am currently working on a 1:48 scale Hawker Hunter, which I am painting in the old Rhodesian (now Zimbabwe) camouflage scheme that consists of a brown base coat, and then green for the camo. Using Tamiya paints. I've found that the Flat Brown colour I've been using is too dark, so I've used Tamiya's Flat White to lighten it a little. Still playing around with it a little to get the exact shade I want, but at the start of the build, it was something I REALLY struggled with. When the project is complete, I plan on giving it to my Dad, as he worked on these aircraft during his compulsory military service in the Rhodesian Air Force during the Rhodesian (Bush)War.
Nick Campbell that’s the worse pressure to have. If I’m building someone for someone as a gift, I put so much soul into it I get pissed when the littlest stuff goes wrong
My current modelling blunder has to be when I was applying more layers of paint (as I'm brush modelling) and I took too long so they layer of paint beneath reactivates and I get this congealed mess of pigment that I need to try and flatten out, that mixed with a bodged attempt to pronounce the panel lines has really killed the mood for me to finish that model, a shame but I might try purchasing another model and completing that before going back
Can you please in next work give us the ratios of the percents you use for mixing paint and solvent and the psi use? Thanks a lot great great channel marvelous models
An Iraqi Abrams. Been underneath the bed since my son was walking. He's 8 now. Now with lockdown happening in Sydney, I feel it's time to bring it back out and finish it with the help of the guy who caused me to stop in the first place
I was building a P-61, and the clear parts were not even close to a fit. its still in the box
i had an issue with this kit too. same sort of thing as you. i used the tamiya rigging photoetch set. i assembled the wings completely, put on the rigging then attached the wings as a whole unit to the fuselage and it didnt seat quite right which buckled the rigging so now the rigging isn't tight. maybe best to follow the instructions!! haha
Mitchell O'Brien I rechecked the instructions and building each wing separately is correct. Glad to hear I’m not the only one that hit this speed bump
That is a nice kit, there is a fellow here in the city selling this one plus 2 other kits so I wanted to get an idea how it looked before buying it.
I'd build it again as a Mk I if I can find another deal. New the kit runs $80-$90 CAD and I got it at a show for $25
My building disaster: I had finished building a 1:72 Lancaster B1 special and was left with only weathering to do on the exhausts, I was using a tiny bit of black enamel paint to create the weathering, I then accidentally caught the tooth pick I was using to stir it and flung it across the room covering not only the model but the carpet in black paint, I salvaged the model but black dots can still be found on the carpet
I was trying to build an Airfix 1/72 B.E2c. I went to put the top wings on and they would not fit . The starboard bottom wing was warped. So I gave up.
So many cock-ups so little room. However after watching this I'm reconsidering purchasing the Airfix🤫 1/72nd kit which is on my wish list. However I'd like to go with one of the wings folded and the other open just wondering if you had considered this as a possible fix to the step issue you had. Cheers from NZ
Just today I accidentally spilled some brush cleaner and it absolutely ruined the paint work on the canopy for the Hasegewa KI-27 I’ve been working on...and the alternate canopy got completely fogged by the brush cleaner too. I have no idea how I’m gonna recover from that but I’ll figure something out. But prolly gonna start another kit in the meantime. Nothing like seeing hours of work ruined by a split second of carelessness 😬
Every time I have tried to build the revell EC145 the fit of the front windscreen killed it for me
Looks like Sidewinders under the wings!
My He 111 has been put on hold as I have put the landing gear bays on the wrong sides, 100% my fault but I am fixing it.
i was building a helicopter from Revell but the frame would not fit together
I have the DVD ("Dogfights" from the History channel) that points out the Swordfish's part in sinking the Bismarck.
Dam it. Now I want a swordfish 😆
That wing problem is a common problem with this kit, seen another guy having the same problem
My mojo was killed twice, quite recently, both times by using AK 3rd Gen varnish before chipping. I sealed both my South African Oliefant tank, as well as my Dutch YPR-795 a year later with the varnish. On the Oliefant I used hairspray, added the top coat and finally used water to do the chipping. On the YPR I wanted to do Salt chipping, to circumvent the hairspray. So I added water as well. Bad idea in both cases, as the varnish turned into a slimy film that separated from the model. But of course impossible to remove it from the hard to reach areas. Incase of the YPR the slimy varnish even "swallowed" the salt crystals, so now the tank sparkles. Both times the mojo was killed completely and I haven't touched either model since.
I’d be done for a few weeks after that. I had to shelf my Tiger Moth for less!
I have one stalled build, a Lanc to Lincoln conversion which is still in its primer stage after 6 months and covid lockdown. Not sure it will ever get finished.
Sam Poultney I get how a conversion can pile up fast
wouldnt call that fix "hackish" it seemed very efficient to me, which is great :D
I had just finished rigging a little 1/700 vampire destroyer when i accidentally knocked a photo frame off my shelf onto the model, snapping the masts and all the rigging......i have not foxed it. 100 percent mojo kill.
Oh man, those feelz. I'd be done for a while. Start a drinking problem after
My issue ended up with the model in the trash. I was building a Tamiya F1 Ferrari model. I had finished painting and decaling the body. I sprayed the body with Tamiya X-22 clear but it didn't look quite gloss enough. I then bought an aerosol of Humbrol enamel gloss varnish and did a test on some plastic and got a very wet look gloss. I then sprayed the model and to my horror the paint started to crinckle. If it had just been the paint I would have sanded it flat and started again but with the decals ruined as well I just binned the kit. The lesson is never trust paint compatibility, especially aerosols. Do a full test if you are not familiar with the paint you are using.
Can you keep the colors you use up on screen longer. I had to rewind to read the colors Great work by the way
lost a part of the engine in a porsche 356 build , it was the last plastic kit 30 years ago ! i geuss that was mojo killing , though shortly after that i startrted scratch building rc planes which i still do, But i recently bought a Italeri transit van so maybe i finally recovered my kit building Mojo :-)
I think you should try ammo migs rigging
13:50 basically every modeler likes it. Although I like the smell of Mr Mark softer more than the Mr cements
Missing or damaged parts, my #1 gripe. #2 gripe is Japanese companies love for you to buy whole kits as punishment for messing up the first kit (Tamiya, Hasegawa are the worst in getting spare parts or non-existent).
attatching the top wing to my airfix 1/72 gladiator almost caused me to give up... its come off now so the aircraft is sitting in a heap in the bottom of my storage draw.
I have their Tiger Moth in 1/48 and it's looking fiddly
I almost gave up on my 1:32 Ju 88A-1 from Revell. Many of the cockpit pieces didn't fit and the instructions were vague in the placement of some of the parts.
Argentinian Scale Modeler I sometimes give up just hearing “Revell”
I like to use PE cockpit parts but don't know what kind of glue to use. If superglue touches the print on the parts it eats it up. Some panels require a PE part with print to be glued on top of another. Any suggestions please. Thank you .
Skimmer I use X-22 Gloss or extra thin super glue applied with a sewing needle
@@TheModelGuy Thank you so much. Time to go shopping. And the Swordfish does look trophy good.
One of my fist models was the Airfix 1/72 English Electric lighting and the fuselage half’s don’t fit at all so I did not have fun 😂
That was my first kit..1976... And it was a nightmare for my 5 year old hands
Oof, that was a nasty spanner in the plastic works. Good workaround but ultimately, one of the reasons I don't build biplanes. As for my unfinished kits and disasters... HobbyBoss Mig 15 - Sanded through the air splitter trying to resolve a fit issue. Didn't walk away nor did the kit survive. Airfix TSR.2 1/48 - Mojo stall after a paint issue Airfix Dakota - Fought me all the way then lost a window Airfix Tucano - Mishap with superglue and noseweights. Easy fix but no acetone to hand. Arma Hurricane - Mojo died
I’m seeing a common theme here! Grab a Tamiya Mustang or Spitfire and be happy with an easy build.
@@TheModelGuy In all fairness, 80% of my kits are Airfix and only a handful are Tamiya (1/48 Do335 & He 162) yet the Tamiya instructions intimidate me beyond belief for some reason.
Are you located in Nova Scotia? Thanks, Judy in Lunenburg
Could u build a p40
the usual ExtraThin fingerprints on very visible bits (leave it! don't try and wipe it off! just let it dry out for a day and carefully sand it out. Ask me how I know(=) By the way, the front cowling ring is actually the exhaust collector ring. The discolouring is because of the heating of the steel. So beware of instructions telling you to paint them copper !
I got my hand on an Airfix Wellington from the 1970's. I thought I would do the challenge of putting it together; knowing full well it was a horrible compared to today's standards. What made me give up was trying to mask off the clear parts of the different windows to airbrush the spokes. I learned that clear parts from the 70's were something completely else, in a bad way, and gave up.
Ah! 1970s models i soent my childhood builsing rhem. I remember when Tamiya started making their kits in the 1980s.. it was like going to heaven!
What is that black glue your using?
What psi do you use and how thin do you make it when paintin over the black basing
Epicforger 12345 Watch my Zeke build, it will have more information
Where did you get your Mr. Tool MT 204 tweezers? I have tried a bunch of places in Canada but cant seem to find any. Thanks!
I ordered them off eBay. They came from Japan.
My disaster: I was building a tamiya panther tank and I has just finished the road wheels and was glueing the hull together. Once the glue had dried I noticed a small dent in the bottom. Then before my eyes the dent became a sizeable hole and glue started to drip out. What must have happened is I must have left the glue in the hulk of the tank whilst I was putting the wheels on and some must have spilt. And poly cement doing what it does melted a penny sized hole in the bottom of the tank.
Listening to the commentary it was mentioned that an American coastguard ship was involved in the action on the Bismarck, as the Americans didn't join the war until after December the 7th 1941 I fail to see how they could have been there at all. A list of ships involved is on Google and only mention British and Polish ships, not the Yanks!
@Jonah Whale I stand by my statement:--- The American Coastguard was NOT involved in the sinking of the Bismarck or any action that led to the sinking. Another case of the Americans re-writing history to suit themselves. The Americans lay claim to the capture of a German U-boat, U-559 and its Enigma machine in the Mediterranean. This again did not involve the Americans it was LtCom Mark Thornton of HMS Petard and his crew who captured it. I believe the Americans made a film called "U-571" claiming they got the machine, this is, of course, a lie and again the Americans trying to big themselves up.
@Jonah Whale Whilst I know the Americans had ships in the Atlantic and one may have seen the Bismarck but again my point is they took no active part in its sinking.
I spent 6 months building a 1/48 Hobby Boss RAAF F-111C spent weeks filling,sanding,and rescribing panels lines I finally finished it and 2 days later my son smashed it to bits knocking it off the table with a footy 😡
what is that mottled piece of kit called that you used to create shadows and where can one get one ??
Martin Levallee Uschi Splatter template. I got mine from ultracast.ca
@@TheModelGuy thanks i had to get them from the Uk everybody else was out of stock :-)
I’m a big fan of the humvee and I just can’t build a good kit of one I’ve tried maybe 4 times now and the closest I got was a old old kit of a tamiya bushmaster humvee which also turned out pants I just can’t seem to build humvee’s I can however build the balls of a land rover so that’s something I guess
So you gonna do a 1/48 Bismark next?
TheDerpyKV 2 hard no. King Tiger is on the bench for something different. I’ve just realized 6 of my last 7 kits have been Tamiya. I’m starting to get spoiled lol
@@TheModelGuy dude same lol. I really love doing revell kits. They are hands down my favorite. But when I got my first tamiya kit.....I cant stop lol
The actual problem with the Bismark's fire control was that they were calibrated for more modern, faster aircraft. Obviously they were accurate enough to take out the Prince of Whales quickly Enough.
FlyBaby I think you meant HMS Hood. The Prince of Wales was sunk by Japanese aircraft along with HMS Repulse.
There is missing context for poor German AA gunnery against the Swordfish. The attack happened in low light ( evening getting on for night), and in bad weather ("driving rain, low cloud and a Force 9 gale"). Bismarck's light AA were not distributed with good arcs of fire, the heavy AA was not good for low level attacks, the rear directors were not stabilised. Swordfish were hit by light AA returning with damage but insufficient to bring them down.
The Swordfish sank more enemy tonnage than any other allied plane in WW2.
Indeed for all it's old technology, the at least two of the aircraft used against the Bismarck used ASV mkII radar