This is the Pavla Sea Gladiator of Lt A. N. Young, 813 NAS Fighter Flight aboard HMS Eagle, Mediterranean Sea, Summer 1940. These are still nice kits, but with all the quirks you would expect from a limited run molding. One big asset is the Pavla decal sheet provides six sets of markings. The Pavla fuselage is a little more bloated than the newer Airfix molding, but I don’t really notice it much on the finished model. I had intended to model this one with a closed canopy, but the vacuformed kit canopy was far too small to fit properly and looked better open.
Inch High Guy 
Dude. You build the Pavla Sea Gladiator? Holy crap!
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Is it supposed to be “unbuildable”? It wasn’t as good as the newer Airfix kit but I didn’t find it all that bad either. Really nice decals.
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That is a lovely model.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete!
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Really like this one, Jeff! Very nice indeed! I’m glad it’s you and not me doing the rigging lines! 🙂
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I don’t generally enjoy rigging, it has kept me away from doing some larger biplane projects.
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F… mate I cant believe you did the rigging lines mate, I remember putting a Gladiator together 50 odd years ago but I seem to recall it was an Airfix and it was called a Gloucester Gladiator ,brilliant job mate ,now you have certainly raised the bar !!!!
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Rigging is not terribly difficult … but it is tedious.
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