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
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