Doug's 1/48 Airfix Sea King

[Waspie]

Sorry guys, no progress at the moment. Bad back!! So sitting in a cold old damp garage isn't going to improve it so I'm at a standstill but enjoying reading all your progress, tips and advice on other builds. So keep on building.

 

[minitnkr]

Beautiful work so far Doug. We've had sun last three days, should be getting there soon.

 

[Waspie]

Beautiful work so far Doug. We've had sun last three days, should be getting there soon.

Sun, I seem to remember that. It's the big yellow warm thing as I recall!!
Now rain!! Oh we have had much rain, so much I'm thinking of having gills fitted!!

 

[Waspie]

Question for Rick. (@rickoshea52 ).
When you were preparing to paint your Airfix Sea King, I noticed you used the one piece door, (Port side) as a mask prior to painting. Can I ask how you secured the door in place. As in the finished model you, like me have the port pax door open!
TIA, Doug

 

[rickoshea52]

I think I just clipped it in place.

 

[Waspie]

I think I just clipped it in place.

Thanks Rick.

 

[Waspie]

Huzzah!!!! At last I made contact with my SK!! (Thank goodness for family keeping SWMBO busy!!!!)

I managed to successfully spray some clear green over the upper cockpit windows!! That led on to the fitting of the whole port access door prior to paint!! Feeling good, I then decided to continue with as much as I could. Upper cockpit consul installed complete with throttle quadrant and rotor brake handle. Then the cockpit glass. A bit of bunging up holes and I was ready to experiment with a new Primer, (Hycote matt black). Black rattly can thing!!! Stinks a bit, not a bad thing as SWMBO is asthmatic so stayed well clear!!!!!

Pics time!
Pic 1
Cockpit clear bits fitted. Whole thing had been wiped over with IPA prior to painting and hopefully getting rid of the horrible Lt Grey Primer.
Rear cabin door bunged up!!


Pic 2
Primer Applied! Looks better already and it's not even dry yet!


Pic 3
Touch dry and sitting on new vice via the sonar well!!!


Pic 4


Pic 5
Final shot. Now leave for 24 plus hours. (Or whenever SWMBO dictates!!!)


Comments good - bad, all welcome. The aim is improvement - isn't it???????

 

[boatman]

Huzzah!!!! At last I made contact with my SK!! (Thank goodness for family keeping SWMBO busy!!!!)

I managed to successfully spray some clear green over the upper cockpit windows!! That led on to the fitting of the whole port access door prior to paint!! Feeling good, I then decided to continue with as much as I could. Upper cockpit consul installed complete with throttle quadrant and rotor brake handle. Then the cockpit glass. A bit of bunging up holes and I was ready to experiment with a new Primer, (Hycote matt black). Black rattly can thing!!! Stinks a bit, not a bad thing as SWMBO is asthmatic so stayed well clear!!!!!

Pics time!
Pic 1
Cockpit clear bits fitted. Whole thing had been wiped over with IPA prior to painting and hopefully getting rid of the horrible Lt Grey Primer.
Rear cabin door bunged up!!
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Pic 2
Primer Applied! Looks better already and it's not even dry yet!
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Pic 3
Touch dry and sitting on new vice via the sonar well!!!
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Pic 4
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Pic 5
Final shot. Now leave for 24 plus hours. (Or whenever SWMBO dictates!!!)
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Comments good - bad, all welcome. The aim is improvement - isn't it???????

WELL Doug i like very much nice build
chrisb

 

[Waspie]

WELL Doug i like very much nice build
chrisb

Thank you Chris. It was strange getting back in the garage - but the temps are good and the humidity is within limits so it would have been rude not to have a bash again!

 

[Waspie]

Few bits done today, not a great deal as I had some basic errors to reconcile!!! Whist priming the King I forgot to add some liquid mask to some of the holes and points I would need to connect a few external bibs and bobs to. So I spent some time reboring holes and scraping out grooves that take aerials and sponsors etc.
Once that was done I managed to get some sensors fitted as well as the sponsons for the U/C.

Piccy time.
Pic 1 Starboard side. The grey box like bits are part of the Orange Crop sensor. (Detects radars etc).


Pic 2
Port side - same system! With the addition of the nose VHF aerial.


Comments/criticisms good or bad most welcome!!

 

[Waspie]

Stole a few minutes this morning before the rain came down again.
Today was a day for adding the aerials, transponder, fuel dump pipe and such.
Left off the clear parts. Hopefully I'll remember to mask the locations off before painting again.
No big additions, just getting more ancillaries fitted prior to last primer coat and base colours - sometime!!!!

 

[rickoshea52]

One of the things I wish I had done before painting was adding the upper and lower anti collision lights. The bases are the airframe colour and it was a pain to do them later after forgetting them.

 

[scottie3158]

Doug, looking good mate the black primer does look better.

 

[Waspie]

Todays progres has been slow but productive. Rotor head has been commenced, quite few fiddly bits and the track rods are sat on the sprue, painted, awaiting fitting!

That’s all for today folks!!

 

[SteveT]

Looking very good!

 

[Waspie]

How come some of the little jobs take so long? Masked off the wheel wells ready for a coat of white. Took longer than anticipated. As I had white in the airbrush I also painted the struts for the wheels.
In between that lot I decided to hand paint the rotor head. (No pics of that as the head isn't completely finished).

Pic 1
Masked off the offending area!
I did add an addition cover over the fuselage prior to spraying!!


Pic 2
With the black primer it looks suitable wheel soiled.
I also took the opportunity to experiment with adding the stress lines on the tail section. I applied a few diagonal white lines with the AB on a fine setting. If I remember I will try and take a picture tomorrow. Hopefully that will show up as a simple shadow once the top coats are applied.

 

[Geoffers]

Coming along nicely Doug

Geoff.

 

[Waspie]

Coming along nicely Doug

Geoff.

Thank you Geoff. Slowly - slowly. I'm getting used to not rushing into things. Spending a lot more time prepping stuff prior to fitting and alway but always dry fitting twice before glueing. Itching to get the final colour on but a bit more work before I get to that stage.

 

[Waspie]

One of the things I wish I had done before painting was adding the upper and lower anti collision lights. The bases are the airframe colour and it was a pain to do them later after forgetting them.

Today I painted the underside of the lights chrome in readiness for fitting!!! (Thanks for the prompt!)

 

[Scratchbuilder]

That is looking the part, temptation to buy one is getting stronger.... you will be the ruination of my credit card....