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My latest completion a long time in the making spent about 12 months on the shelf of doom just didn't have the mojo to finish it. Italeri H-19 with the Rotorcraft Whirlwind HAR9 conversion and a few scratch aerials specific to the HAR9 operated on the Endurance. IMGP2706 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP2698 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP2700 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Alongside its HMS Protector HAR1 stablemate IMGP2710 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Thanks for looking

617 Sqn F35's are due to be embarked during this deployment which is the second deployment for F35 aircraft trials, Initial Operating capabilty is set for 2020 and the first operational deployment will take place in 2021

A few shots of the QE leaving for her Westlant Deployment _IMG5927_1 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP2687 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Forward Island HMS QE by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Aft Island HMS QE by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Leonardo AW101 Merlin HM2 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr _IMG5942_1 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Escort La Motte Piquet waiting outside the harbour to Join QE FS La Motte Piquet by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Willy

The fin did have an emergency towing line recessed in it and covered over with filler, it ran down the side of the fin and along the bottom of the casing held in place with metal clips and then faired into the bow 14-03-2015 13;59;26 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr In the photo it starts at the cut out in the top of the fin. On some of the boats the filling was quite rough and would show up as a vertical line running down the side, no fill, sand, check, repeat for that. The navigation lights were recessed in the side of the fin and would be turned out manually by the lookout when they were required Willy

Great looking Phantom

Great work, hard to believe its a Mach 2 kit, great colour scheme

Stunning work

Great looking O Boat, loved my time on these Dolphin 38 = Diesel Boats Forever

Impressive work, well done

The Observers windows are included, with inserts for the civil versions

Its not a simple throw together kit, the wing halves need a lot of thinning down and there is a fairly large gap between the wing to fuselage join, lots of sanding needed on the mating surfaces , the decals are tricky once you lay them down they are pretty hard to move if they are not in the correct position and you definately need to shorten the wing walkway markings to make them more manageable but if you have any experience with limited run kits you should be fine and probably make a better effort than I managed. Willy

Inspired by my trip to the Yeovilton Air Day in 2018 this is my latest attempt the 1/72 Sova M Dassault Falcon 50 Surmar, typical short run kit lots of filling, the interior is bare except for the cockpit so I scratchbuilt the area around the observers positions to fill the area around the observation windows, the rest of the windows were blanked off as these aircraft seem to fly with blinds drawn down alot of the time. The surface detail is very nice and the decals are very thin which means the walkway lines on the wings are best cut to shorter lengths to prevent them folding over on themselves. Dassault Falcon 50 Surmar 1/72 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Dassault Falcon 50 Surmar 1/72 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Dassault Falcon 50 Surmar 1/72 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Dassault Falcon 50 Surmar 1/72 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Dassault Falcon 50 Surmar 1/72 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Enjoy, Willy

I'm not an airliner man myself but that is some incredible work, very nice

I served on Trenchant during this trial, we were used as we getting near to our refit period and all the tiles had been removed from the aft end of the boat so they could paint it I think the blue was sourced from a local DIY store and the grey came from a Type 23 that was in the dockyard at the time. The trial was carried out as submarines were carrying out more ops in the Med and Gulf, but unfortunately the trial was carried out in the North Atlantic which meant we stuck out like a sore thumb Torbay was painted in a very dark plum colour. there were a couple of variations the blue was over painted in grey and then black as you can see from the picture it weathered quite badly. trencpay by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

Amazing work, a great looking Mirage

Yes on completion of trials and workup she is destined to go to the Falklands late 2019 to replace Clyde which will then be paid off and is going to be sold to the Brazilian Navy

A few pictures today of HMS Forth sailing for the first time under the White Ensign and the survey vessel HMS Magpie IMGP0758 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP0756 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP0768 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP0763 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP0723 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP0726 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP0730 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Enjoy, Willy

Stunning work, great job and in 1/144 WOW

Very nice, like that alot

Great work, lovely looking Gannet

I don't think it is a mirror image, the bracket in the red area doesnt seem to appear in the blue are so i'm not convinced there is a flare pack on the aft section but I could be wrong, unfortunately I couldn't take pictures of the aft area of the DAS because of the way the aircraft were parked. 1 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

A few pictures of the FLIR fit on a Merlin HM2 and a picture of ZH841 which has the FLIR fitted on the Stbd side and a weapon Pylon on the Port side, notice that the FLIR fit for the HM1 in my previous post and the HM2 in this post is different. IMGP6569 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP6566 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr _IMG8420_1 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Hope they help you answer some of your questions.

Hi Perdu, I thought these might be of help for your Merlin, photos of Merlin HM1 ZH852 at Waddington ZH852 2 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr ZH852 1 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr ZH852 3 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Keep up the good work Willy

Very nice looking Turbo Dak, I have this conversion in the stash hope I can do it half as well as this when I attempt it

Great looking Mirage and superb NMF finish