1/72 PM Model Hawker Sea Fury 

'Miss Merced'

by Tamer Ozkan

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  Turkey Republic Day 2004 

 

This year The Turkish Air Museum Held their XVIII. competition and they announced that a special category will be open as the best PM model kit. Some of the modelers has chosen the Hawker Sea Fury as an group built subject.  I checked the both versions of PM-211 Hawker FB II, PM-212 Sea FuryT-20,PM-214 Sea Fury T-61known as Baghdad Fury.

I decided to build a different version than the military use and I finally found the Reno Air racers which impressed me much .

I have chosen the Miss Merced 's late version which fits the PM-211 without any canopy changes.  The propeller was the 4 blades version and I asked help from my friends and I used an 1/72 P-47 propeller and  different spinner.

The kit was easy to build.  I used Acrylic paints varnishes, clear paints for the flames.  All of the flames, numbers and letters has been computer designed and handpainted, except the American Flag and the Miss Merced letters at the landing gear which are home made decals.  I used the frisket film for maskings.  The stripes on the canopy were painted bare metal foils cut in scale.

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The model won the best PM prize.  I would like to thank for their help, Mr Mehmet sekercioglu from PM models ,

Omer Erkmen for the propeller and technical details.  Ufuk Aydiner for the computer graphics.  Turhan Gungor for the decals

Tamer

Photos and text © by Tamer Ozkan