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WiP +++ D.H. Sea Venom Mk. 23, MFlGr 1, Deutsche Marineflieger; Jagel, 1961

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June 17, 2026, 11:16:00 PM Last Edit: Today at 12:16:56 AM by Dizzyfugu
Still early, but I open the thread for my current project that has already taken shape: the "enactment" of a recent SPINNERS design/post, a D.H. Sea Venom night fighter in German Marineflieger service. This not only looks quite attractive, esp. with RAL paints instead of EDSG/Sky, it would also have been a nice real-world complement to the German Sea Hawks of the late Fifties:



Stay tuned...  :lol:

PR19_Kit

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June 17, 2026, 11:55:58 PM
You mean it WASN'T real?  :o
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

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Kit

Dizzyfugu

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Today at 12:16:43 AM
So, here we go. This is another "tribute build", inspired by a recent fictional aircraft skin by fellow member SPINNERS, see above. It's a rather simple one, a D.H. Sea Venom re-painted and -badged as an early German Marineflieger aircraft, with markings and colors inspired by German Hawker Seahawks. That looked quite elegant, and I was inspired enough to turn this idea into hardware on short notice.

Problem is, though, that there are not many 1:72 Sea Venom kits around, and so I ended up with one of the many Frog kit revenants, in this case as an Aquilon in a recent Iom Kit boxing (there's the Dragon kit, which is certainly MUCH better, but four times as expensive here in Germany, plus postage!). What I found amazing: I got this kit from a seller in the Ukraine, and that motivated me even more to build it as soon as possible. However, the old molds are apparently worn, and the kit comes with lots of flash, poor fit in general, raised panel lines as well as a THICK and yellowish one-piece canopy. Anything you want...

Since I just wanted to build SPINNERS' idea in hardware form, I decided to build the Sea Venom mostly OOB, and just with small mods. For instance, I did not spend much effort to improve the interior – the cockpit would remain closed, with the OOB pilots in their seats and no extras like a dashboard etc. Just trigger handles for the ejection seats were added, because these would be visible from outside, and I turned the pilot's head left so that he would not look dead straight ahead.


1:72 de Havilland DH.112 'Sea Venom' FAW.23; 'VA+247' of the MFlGr 1 (1st Naval Fighter Wing), Deutsche Bundesluftwaffe, Fliegerhorst Jagel near Schleswig (Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany), 1961 (What-if/FROG Kit) - WiP by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr


1:72 de Havilland DH.112 'Sea Venom' FAW.23; 'VA+247' of the MFlGr 1 (1st Naval Fighter Wing), Deutsche Bundesluftwaffe, Fliegerhorst Jagel near Schleswig (Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany), 1961 (What-if/FROG Kit) - WiP by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr


1:72 de Havilland DH.112 'Sea Venom' FAW.23; 'VA+247' of the MFlGr 1 (1st Naval Fighter Wing), Deutsche Bundesluftwaffe, Fliegerhorst Jagel near Schleswig (Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany), 1961 (What-if/FROG Kit) - WiP by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr

Lots of lead was hidden in the radome and in front of the cockpit to keep the nose later down, and even after the fuselage was closed I carmeped even more material into the area in front of the cockpit through the ventral panel that carries the gun ports and the front wheel well.
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