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Okay, so 5 weeks late to the party but I wanted to get the Carriers Ahoy Seahawk finished before I started anything else. In fairness the last time I made one of these it took me an afternoon so being a few weeks late should make that much difference. Part of me would like to go to town on this and super detail everything to see what it is possible to make from one of these. But there are no aftermarket parts available to the best of my knowledge so any detailing will be scratchbuilt. Nothing wrong with that but it does take a wee bit longer and knowing the pressure of work that I am under at the moment, coupled with the fact that I will lose 3 weekends in the middle of this for the annual family, holiday, I think I will keep it as close to out of the box as my conscience will allow! Initial look at the sprues reminds me that it is a s clunky as we might expect for a model first produced over 50 years ago. But in fairness the mouldings are reasonably crisp with not too much flash although I'm not sure what I will be able to do with the figures. they really do show their age and I fear will make it look very toylike when complete. I'll see what they look like after a clean up and a coat of primer. I must confess the red plastic takes me back a few years. I think the last kit I had in red plastic was the AMT ambulance and that must have been 40 years ago. I had a look for a copyright marker but the only one I could see lacked a date, simply saying Airfix Hobbies ©. But I don't think there's any doubt that this is the original mould. So the box shot: Sprue shots: And the instructions. Sadly as you can see, I have 2 sets of Fire Engine instructions and no omnibus instructions. Though I don't need them just now, i will at some point. I'm sure I can download then from ATF. For the same reason I won't publish every page of the instructions; if you're interested they're almost certainly on ATF.
