Jack's Airfix 1/72 Sea King

[Jack L]

Will aim to get this going shortly.

 

[Jim R]

Looks nice.

 

[Geoffers]

Nice one Jack

Looking forward to following along.

Geoff.

 

[Jack L]

It’s quite a simple little thing, and it only took me a couple of hours to get the internals more or less done. I’ll paint before I go any further. It’s screaming for some extra bits and pieces, but I’m determined this will be an OOB build. Been a while since I have worked on this scale!

 

[rickoshea52]

I’ve built this kit, it’s very nice but beware the HF aerial layout along the left hand side fuselage, the Airfix instructions aren’t accurate.
See my build here -

Rick’s 1/72 Airfix Sea King HAR3, D Flight 202 Sqn, RAF Lossiemouth.

This is Sea King HAR3 XZ596 as she was while at Lossiemouth around 2003/4. The only after market I used is an Air Graphics resin EAPS/SNIPS engine filter, which is far superior to the kit part, Eduard paint masks, Sqn crest and some seat belts from the spares box. Scratch made VOR-D “grab...

www.scale-models.co.uk

 

[papa 695]

Nice start Jack.

 

[Jack L]

I’ve built this kit, it’s very nice but beware the HF aerial layout along the left hand side fuselage, the Airfix instructions aren’t accurate.
See my build here -

Rick’s 1/72 Airfix Sea King HAR3, D Flight 202 Sqn, RAF Lossiemouth.

This is Sea King HAR3 XZ596 as she was while at Lossiemouth around 2003/4. The only after market I used is an Air Graphics resin EAPS/SNIPS engine filter, which is far superior to the kit part, Eduard paint masks, Sqn crest and some seat belts from the spares box. Scratch made VOR-D “grab...

www.scale-models.co.uk

Thanks Rick...I'll have a look!

Nice start Jack.

Thanks Ian. Not much too it so far.

 

[Geoffers]

Nice start Jack, quite a lot of detail in the cabin.

Geoff.