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Well done! Reminds me of my childhood when I started this kit as well - got it cheap as it was remaining stock at my LHS and Esci was already history back then. I was happy with the kit until I recognized that the box included two left wings but no right one. 🫣

Very good result. I like it very much 👍

The kit has the straight tail boom with inverted V stabilizers and slim tail fin.

I don't mean aerial refulling, but the capability of picking up the fuel hose from a frigate for example in the hover without landing.

Hello community, currently I started a 1:48 Sea King project (Airfix of course). I have a lot of literature, but the "classic" variants are not that well covered and it is also not that easy to find hi-res detail pictures for the HAS.2 My airframe in favour is XZ578 of 824 NAS on the last Ark Royal commission with the yellow speedbird symbol on the forward fuselage. (image source: https://fullfatthings-keyaero.b-cdn.net/sites/keyaero/files/styles/article_body/public/imported/2020-07-03/img_30_1.jpg?itok=QV2L7CnQ) My plan is to use the recent Model Art decal sheet: https://www.keymodelworld.com/article/model-art-148-sea-king-decals-has1-has2-hu5 Regarding the HAS.2 specifics I have a couple of questions which remain unanswered in the literature I got. The most obvious differences to HAS.1 are the six-bladed-tail rotor and the fod shield. Apart from that: 1) The aircraft features these two bumps right aft of the chin searchlight. I believe that they weren't present on HAS.1 as Airfix tells you to sand them off part F7. But I also found HAS.2 without them. Were those the retrofitted HAS.2A? 2) Has the HAS.2 the longer aft cabin or is the cabin bulkhead located right at the aft edge of the sliding door? (I believe the longer cabin was introduced with Mk. 41 and HAR.3 wasn't it?) 3) Does the HAS.2 have the doppler antenna which is moulded in part F7 or should I remove it (in pictures I just see the bright square field but this one "folds" around the hull edge whereas the moulded in antenna is rather flat) 4) Is it realistic to install the three place bench seat just aft of the radar operator's seat opposite of the sliding door? 5) The kit offers the smooth soundproofed inner cabin wall surfaces - I also saw pictures of HAS.1 with open sturctures and no soundproofing - what was more common with HAS.2? 6) According to my literature the HAS.2 was the first variant which had the inflight refuelling capability. Does this mean that there has to be changed something with the fuel filler caps? 7) Last not least: Can you tell me the period and background when this patch was issued?: https://photos.app.goo.gl/w5ZZTmMJqp3Uxi4F7 If you have any other points to ponder, please feel free to mention them here. So, dear Sea King experts I would be very happy if you could help me. The coverage of the later Sea King variants is much better than the earlier ones. Thank you very much! Any help is appreciated

aaah yes, I forgot that one … shame on me

Their 1/72 SA-342M was never Heller’s Gazelle except for the HOT missiles and the Homing antenna for the nose. The rest was Airfix with a modified upper clear part (HOT sight). A re-release of that one seems unlikely for me. Apart from that: That kind of commitment as shown in the screenshot is rather vague. Edit: As we all know Glow2B is the company behind Heller and Glow2B is also the German distributor for Airfix kits. But this would be a first then…

And Platz releases selected Italeri kits under their “Platz-Italeri” label for their domestic market as Tamiya did this as well earlier.

I would be very surprised when Xtradecal won’t come up with one or several sheets. Also recent sheets of Model Art Decal System covers some Wessii - but not HC.2 yet - think that this will happen as well.

If I remember right, the seat benches (which are copies of Esci UH-1D/AB-205) weren’t that wrong at least for Bristow a/c. The bench with headrests is typical for 212. They may had a softer cushioning.

On the photos of the parts you see the straight tailboom with the narrow tailfin, whereas the HAS.7 has the kinked one with the wider tailfin. This must be sourced out of a (harder to find) H-19B (no. 1206) kit then. Airwaves, Heritage and Rotorcraft models did HAS.7 bellies with the weapon recess as stated earlier. The height of the cargo/pax cabin sliding door has to be adapted from my point of view.

I rather prefer the JAM-SCREW parts. As for the tail rotor, the parts breakdown may be more complicated but it allows individual flapping of the blades. I can imagine that reskit will make it in one piece.

No exact numbers at hand I’m afraid but this may give a hint: https://www.rotorspot.nl/product/se313.php Some were converted. Some operators used both Artouste and Astazou. For example German Army, Belgian Army and German Border Police (Bundesgrenzschutz). The latter two used only Astazou in the end, whereas the German Army got rid of the Astazou quite a period earlier than the Artouste. French (para-)military forces also had them both at the same time. The engine design is quite different and noticeable. The intake is completely different with SA-318 and they don’t have this long cabin heating hose on the right side. One can roughly say that the SA-318 is an Alouette II with an uncovered Gazelle engine. The SA-315 Lama has an Alouette III (SA-316) engine and transmission and tail rotor, high skid gear as well as a slightly longer tail boom than original Alouette IIS. British AAC used SE-3130 with Artouste engines only. Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, Austria and Israel as well.

It’s Extratech with a different parts setup though as stated earlier. As with the Djinn and Sikorsky VS-300 they redid the rotor blades in plastic. Decals are the same. But it’s a SE-3130 with Artouste engine and not a SA-318 which were equipped with Astazou engines.

I see your point, but MRC/Academy never made a B. The C looks very similar, but hat a lot of differences in detail though.