1/48 Kitech Hawker Fury Mk.60

by Haroon Hamid

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  Pakistan Day 2006 

 

The Hawker Fury traces its origins back to when a German Fw-190A-3, landed mistakenly at RAF Pembrey during WW2. In 1949-50 Royal Pakistani Air Force (RPAF) purchased 93 single seat Fury fighters plus 5 two-seat trainers. 86 of these fighters were the newly built Mk.60s , 5 were ex-FAA Mk 11s and one was the fourth Fury prototype NX802.  The Mk.61 two-seat trainers were new builds. The Fury was considered to be an excellent platform for COIN operations and was used to quell a rebellion in North West Frontier Province. The No.9 "Griffins" were the last squadron to switch from the Hawker Fury over to the F-104A "Starfighters". The Furies were retired in 1963 after which some spent their last years as spotter planes for the Bristol Freighters in locust extermination flights.

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The kit here is a reboxed Hobbycraft kit with its distinctive trench like panel lines. To do a de-navalised version, I did not attach the arrester hook that comes along with the kit. Brass tubing was used in the gun ports and pitot tube. 

Some minor detailing was done in the gear wells. The decals were custom made by Kedi-decals and settled really well with Mark Softer. Exhaust soot was replicated using black chalk dust.

Happy modelling,

Haroon

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Photos and text © by Haroon Hamid