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Airfix Fairey Firefly


Ron Bell

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This is OOTB. Sort of a middle of the road kit for the old Airfix line. Not as primitive as the first releases, but not as good as the last few, just sort of 'not bad'. I sanded off the rivets, painted the stripes and added striping to the bombs. Interesting note on the recognition stripes, they were added because US pilots in Korea weren't great at A/C recognition and kept mistaking the Fireflies for Russian types in use by the Koreans. Got so bad that they even painted large Union Flags on the decks of the British carriers.

 

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