1/48 Tamiya Fairey Swordfish 

by Rafi Ben-Shahar

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Here is another example of Tamiya's finest, the Fairey Swordfish. Both kits are unique in that I added scratch material as needed without purchasing the required PE sets to complete the model. This is my way of building many quality models on top of buying the items at Ebay for about half of the retail price. 

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The Swordfish with the D-Day invasion stripes represents a partial conversion to Mk III using spare kit parts and scratch made parts. 

I did not complete the conversion with the addition of an oil filter and remove the torpedo rack in order to retain the appealing looks of the model. The same non historic in-accuracy goes for the serial number, which is pure speculative.

Rafi

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Photos and text © by Rafi Ben-Shahar