Tag: Swordfish

• RCN Swordfish – Part One – The Opportunity

  

  All you need is one – an opportunity, I mean. Then you can do the model you really want. This Novo re-pop of a FROG mould comes along a complex pathway from 1971 through to 1980. I suspect the kit has lain dormant since then – a true survivor of Ye Olden Dayes. As I…

  Dick Stein

  September 24, 2025

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Collecting, Decals, frugality, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  FROG, Royal Canadian Navy, Swordfish

• Fairey Swordfish Mk I – Part Four _ THM

  

  It may seem foolish to bypass much of the effort that Airfix went to when they designed this model. But that is what I did when I started researching the Canadian connection for this aircraft. It would appear that there were a number of them in RCAF and RCN service during and after WW2. And…

  Dick Stein

  March 11, 2024

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, display, History, Model Airplane, Museums

  Museums, RCAF, RCN, Swordfish