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    Westland Whirlwind HAR9, Endurance Flight 1/72

    in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft

    Posted · Edited by dolphin38

    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. 

     

    48689882242_84554543ac_b.jpgIMGP2706 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    48689882827_93187963c0_b.jpgIMGP2698 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    48689710886_8fca7d3ee3_b.jpgIMGP2700 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    Alongside its HMS Protector HAR1 stablemate

     

    48689881777_84c98e3879_b.jpgIMGP2710 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    Thanks for looking

     

     

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    HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving Portsmouth for Westlant deployment

    in Maritime Modern

    Posted

    A few shots of the QE leaving for her Westlant Deployment

     

    48647819428_2d11f6e424_b.jpg_IMG5927_1 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    48648185896_4c76595e3b_b.jpgIMGP2687 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    48648187271_20123c5d3b_b.jpgForward Island HMS QE by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    48647818638_6a6e716da3_b.jpgAft Island HMS QE by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    48647818883_143bfa8877_b.jpgLeonardo AW101 Merlin HM2 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    48648186481_6d87c8bb85_b.jpg_IMG5942_1 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    Escort La Motte Piquet waiting outside the harbour to Join QE

     

    48648185576_39d9fa4c97_b.jpgFS La Motte Piquet by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    Willy

     

     

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    1/350 RAN Oberon SSG - HMAS Ovens

    in Work in Progress - Maritime

    Posted · Edited by dolphin38

    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 

     

    48626356168_f4f96e52a1_b.jpg14-03-2015 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

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    Dassault Falcon 50 Surmar

    in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft

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    4 hours ago, FLCH said:

    Beautiful model of a beautiful aircraft ! How did it go together ?

    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

    Dassault Falcon 50 Surmar

    in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft

    Posted · Edited by dolphin38

    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.

     

    47779941361_95a0c83be2_b.jpgDassault Falcon 50 Surmar 1/72 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    47779941111_e8092a4551_b.jpgDassault Falcon 50 Surmar 1/72 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    47779940821_4a3b0c94a3_b.jpgDassault Falcon 50 Surmar 1/72 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    47779940541_99215170de_b.jpgDassault Falcon 50 Surmar 1/72 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    47779940111_cc17a93c2f_b.jpgDassault Falcon 50 Surmar 1/72 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    Enjoy,

     

    Willy

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    A couple of 1/350 scale submarines

    in Ready for Inspection - Maritime

    Posted

    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.

     

     33696995308_5b03854f07_b.jpgtrencpay by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

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    The New HMS Forth and the small HMS Magpie

    in Maritime Modern

    Posted · Edited by dolphin38

    19 hours ago, JohnT said:

    Great photos and thanks for sharing.  HMS Forth looks quite a nice looking ship but not exactly bristling with weaponry.  I had a quick look on Wiki and the constabulary role of anti smuggling, etc was what I expected however I didn't think I'd read "It was reported in October 2017 that Forth had been earmarked to replace half-sister HMS Clyde as the Falkland Islands Guardship."  

    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

    The New HMS Forth and the small HMS Magpie

    in Maritime Modern

    Posted

    A few pictures today of HMS Forth sailing for the first time under the White Ensign and the survey vessel HMS Magpie

     

    32501677927_7583873f73_b.jpgIMGP0758 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    46528186405_271616714e_b.jpgIMGP0756 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    46528185575_511c3099b0_b.jpgIMGP0768 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    46528186115_5181df201a_b.jpgIMGP0763 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    40477475603_85e86afbd2_b.jpgIMGP0723 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    47390530192_8af762aeff_b.jpgIMGP0726 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    47390528062_a6367bc7eb_b.jpgIMGP0730 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    Enjoy,

     

    Willy

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    Fifty shades .. H-19 the circle closed, ciao baby

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

    Posted · Edited by dolphin38

    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. 

     

    32269568857_cba8521915_b.jpgIMGP6569 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    32269517867_7439c0cce4_b.jpgIMGP6566 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    32269518297_420c2d96f5_b.jpg_IMG8420_1 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr

     

    Hope they help you answer some of your questions.

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