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Hi, not very creative but I like to enter Old 66 - the SH-3D Sea King which rescued various Apollo crews in the livery of the Apollo 11 rescue. Starting point is Revells boxing of the Hasegawa Sea King. As this is a later variant I add early short sponsons from Flightpath UK (excellent stuff and service!) and their Sea King etch set. Decals will be DIY as the Apollo Decals are long OOP and the only sheet I found had a collector price tag. Apollo Decals are now available at Starfighter decals but currently only the Apollo 13 livery is available and only in 1:72 at the moment. The 1:48 sheet will probably hit the shelfs before this GB ends but the Apollo 11 sheets will most likely not arrive in time (they will be rereleased this year too). So I did my own artwork for this sheet which I will print myself unless I find a better solution. I had this build on my list for many years and originally planned to make a rescue scene. Due to the ammount of work involved I will not. My Old 66 will be parked with folded rotor and after a lot of thinking I will keep the main cabin door closed: it is molded closed anyway. To open up the door would mean a lot of scratch building and as there are so many GBs I want to do this year I need to keep the Sea King as simple as possible. The Flightpath etch set provides the left side entrance door and the front area of the cabin. But I am not sure if this is correct for the Apollo rescue as I read that the interior was stripped from most equipment to provide room for the recovery mission. Thanks for looking and pics will be uploaded later. Rene Edit: Here is what I currently have:
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