Airfix 1/72 Sea King

[Guest]

From my build thread here, this is now finished. The Sea King offers a particular interest for me since my little brother (MACR Rich Taylor) operated from them for many years, including this exact one, as a winchman / paramedic. I'm hoping to create a diorama for it in the future, depicting an actual rescue based on real life events, but the model itself is complete.

Plenty of things I'm not fully happy about but I need to remind myself that this is only the second model I've built, so rookie flaws are to be expected.

I'm still trying to get to grips with photographing them too, but hopefully the pictures aren't too bad.

Thanks for looking!

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[stillp]

Wow! That's good Andy!
Pete

[Si Benson]

Hi Andy,
I think you have produced a very nice model and if you hadn’t of said, I’d say you’d been making models for years!!

I wouldn’t worry about your photography either. Pictures look nice and clear, well lit and we can’t see the kitchen table in the background:smiling5:
Well done mate:thumb2:

[spanner570]

Andy.
One very nice, well photographed, neat build.
Well done....
Ron

[Guest]

Very nicely built and painted :smiling3:.

[Guest]

Thanks very much chaps, I really appreciate your comments.

Hopefully this is just the start of something, and I can't believe I've been missing out all these years. I envy you guys that have been enjoying this for such a long time!

[Jim F]

Hi Andy
That is a superb result if this is your second model then competitions are not far away, I'm impatiently awaiting the finish you get on the A10.
regards Jim

[Steven000]

Turned out great Andy :thumb2:

[Jim R]

Hi Andy
That is a really excellent result. Only your second build - your should be very proud of that.
Jim

[Guest]

Thanks chaps, I'm blushing here :smiling4:

Jim, that A10 is fighting me already! So much filling and sanding that I've lost many of the panel lines. On the plus side I'm learning how to rescribe recessed panel lines from raised ones :smiling5:

[Guest]

Looking very good there You really wouldn’t say this is only your second model — plenty of people who’ve been building models for decades don’t produce ones looking as nicely as this one.

One thing I’ve been wondering about since I saw the instruction sheet photos you posted, is why one rotor blade is yellow?

[Steven000]

...One thing I’ve been wondering about since I saw the instruction sheet photos you posted, is why one rotor blade is yellow?

I've read that apparently one blade didn't fold and needed to be positioned over the tail-boom when the rotors were folded, this one rotor would be painted yellow...
Cheers, Steven

[Guest]

That would certainly make sense.

[PaulTRose]

very nice work indeed, especially with it being yellow

[Guest]

Thanks Jakko & Paul.

As for the rotor, I figured there was a technical reason and have read the theory about it being the non-folding one, but having asked the question it seems it's a simple visibility / conspicuity thing. SAR are normally operating at low level and the single yellow rotor makes them much easier to spot from above by other aircraft.