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DrawDecals quote Humbrol 15 Midnight Blue: TwoSix decals simply say 'Gloss Midnight Blue' (no ref)... Re tail pylon hinges, I really wouldn't know, Bill, but I wouldn't see why not...

Nice pic! Being Newquay-based would explain why I see them around occasionally - a few weeks ago one went over heading south, and returned 90mins or so later heading north with another in trail... Learn something every day - but the aircraft still seem to carry military serials?

Page 21 of this has the official colour standards, Bill: https://www.logodesignlove.com/images/guidelines/british-airways-brand-guidelines.pdf

Have you tried here? http://b29s.koreanwar-educator.org/b29sinthekoreanwar/Units.htm

After a couple of weeks with Atlases passing overhead almost daily at a couple of thousand feet on practice approaches into Newquay - some of them up to half-a-dozen times - yesterday a C-17 came over a couple of times at similar heights on outbound legs, after flying approaches into Newquay from the opposite direction. Quite impressive against a cloudless blue sky - view very similar to fatfingers' middle pic on the previous page - and as it was coming into view the second time, crossing directly above it at 9,000ft and descending was one of Cranwell's Phenoms. Though they've been around almost three years, I'd never seen one before - not that I could see that much of it at that height!

Great to see rivet and rotor head detail added - it makes such a difference... ....and nicely done with the exhaust staining and general weathering too!

Do the very shiny very pointy front bits remind you of anything Madonna-ish?

Them engine intake grilles could be fun!

Added a couple of photos, apparently at the same time you were posting the above - both S-61N's, showing the grill under the TRGB bulge.... ....I have the same Airwaves set, and the odd bit is spurious - the triangular grill at the front of the one you've already fitted on top of the engine bay, for example... ....as for the one in question, their instructions simply show putting it on the wrong side - can't comment on the S-61N one you've also pictured, though... ....but no grille visible under the starboard side here:

Oooops, wrong side, Bill - that one should be under the bulge on the tail rotor side, rather than the tailplane itself:

69-5784? Formerly a HH-53C with the 67th ARRS at Woodbridge, pictured here at Mildenhall 40 years ago: And, incidentally, also the subject of my model pictured earlier, as it appeared at Alconbury in 1982 (the Pave Low is former CH-53C 70-1629, Alconbury 1993)...

The same Microscale/Superscale (72-444) sheet that contains markings for a sister aircraft to the pictured 631 of HM-16 also features a rare example of a USAF helo with nose art - CH-53C 68-10928 'Head Hunter' of the 601st TASS, which was based at Sembach AB, Germany, and frequently appeared at a number of airshows in the UK and across Europe during the early 1980s: 68-10928 flew as 'Knife 22' in the 1975 SS Mayaguez rescue attempt, and force-landed in Thailand as a result of battle damage: Recovered, repaired, and assigned to the 601st TCW the following year, 10928 served in Germany throughout the 1980s, until finally converted to a MH-53J - after being retired in 2007, the aircraft went on display at the Hurlburt Field air park:

Given that the Italeri base plastic is the same, an easy way to increase the range of colour schemes and markings would be to leave off the Pave Low parts and build the kit as an HH-53C - dispense with the refuelling probe too, and it can be made as a USMC CH-53D (as pictured earlier)... ....discard the external fuel tanks and mounts as well, and then the CH-53A and CH-53G enter the picture - I can supply the Airfix decals for either of their USMC or German options if you'd like thm, TG88...

Exactly why I used the Airfix kit - and the same reason why I prefer Revell's Sea King to Airfix's 'new' one. Airfix's CH/HH-53 is generally accepted as being the best of the type. I have a number of them in order to complete a range of -53s, including an overall grey ARRS one - possibly the 67th's 8284... Thanks - it did, even on the preceding HH-53C:

Pave Lows only ever wore three schemes: 'European 1', the brown desert scheme referred to above, and overall grey FS36118. To do a UK-based 67th ARRS/21st SOS aircraft, you just need to pick a suitable serial number (the Revell release included markings for a Woodbridge/Mildenhall aircraft)... ....as e8n2 says, forget the PrintScale S-65 sheets - they contain poorly-executed rip-offs of subjects originally produced by Microscale/Superscale and RepliModel, and don't feature any Pave Lows anyway... ...unless you do an early HH-53H as pictured above, you'll need to modify the main rotor blade roots and tips - and don't forget to reverse the tail rotor blades, which as supplied rotate the wrong way around... ....this is my MH-53J - Airfix kit with nose equipment and fuel tanks from an Italeri kit:

Nothing shows there for me to click on - as I said, I see grey boxes pulsing for a few seconds, then they vanish, and the post appears blank... ....running the cursor over the post reveals nothing either - exactly the same happened as before when I returned to the thread again now...

If you can make the windows the same thickness as their apertures, then installing them needn't prove quite as difficult as it may appear now.... ....working from the opposite sides, superglue small tabs across at least two inside corners of each aperture to prevent pushing the windows through during fitting...

Don't know what's supposed to be showing here, but all I get initially is a set of grey boxes that look like they're going to show a forum link, but then disappear completely... ....exactly the same happened when I 'quoted' in this reply - grey boxes that pulsed a couple of times and then vanished...

From this photo, it would appear Captain Casey routinely flew in one of the aircraft - PAO insciption on the side:

I was there for the entire weekend, working on the Celsia Hobbies stand - back then, I helped out at airshows with various traders, mainly TAHS and Mil-Slides... ....we were setting up the stand about mid-point along the display line when the B-52 arrived declaring an emergency - no green lights for the port main landing gear... ....we heard it over the radio of someone nearby, and watching the BUFF on approach, I recall thinking that if he slewed off the runway, he might head straight toward us... ....fortunately, he landed without incident - unlike the Marineflieger Atlantic that did a 'tactical' approach and landing, and touched down with the brakes on... ....immediate loud bangs as rubber met asphalt and the tyres all burst - another Atlantic arrived some hours later with a complete replacement set of wheels! The weekend was rounded off by a highly-amusing incident after we'd returned and off-loaded back at West Drayton (Celsia was just down the road from TAHS)... ....we went to a local Chinese restaurant, and along with us from the stand were three or four Finnish modellers who were flying back from Heathrow the next morning... ....although they spoke fairly good English, our host asked if they'd like help with the menu, at which one proudly said no, and promptly ordered "crispy asthmatic duck"!

Funnily enough, I was viewing your CSAR build yesterday, and thought the transparencies on both models were Revell ones - then I found a review of the HH-3E kit elsewhere online... ....it has photos of all the parts, and a number of the others also appear "inspired by" Revell's Sea King - cockpit floor and all the controls, engine intakes, main rotor head, and the tail rotor...

Always good to have an option, especially, if like mine, your years-old Xtracolor tin of RAF Rescue Yellow turns out to be an entirely different shade... ....mine was more lemon than golden - and now I come to think of it, I probably got it at the same time as the tin of ANA 501 True Blue that wasn't!

Isn't Fish-head the Wafu's term for a sailor? Hence only with boats...

I'd say yes, certainly for the 'For Sale' section at least, given that threads will be at least two months old, and sellers may have since listed elsewhere (such as eBay)... ....and as for the others, wants and needs may well have changed - easier by far to wipe the slate clean, rather than hope everyone updates each individual thread...

Only with boats...