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The brief: Take the cheap Italeri Merlin HM1 I picked up at one of the stalls at the Birmingham IPMS Show a couple of years ago and attempt the heavily varied colour effects seen on most of the Royal Navy's Merlin fleet after nigh on twenty years in service The aircraft entered service in the Medium Sea Grey scheme and over the years various panels have needed repairs or replacement which resulted in a large number of versions of the Grey all over them Much of the variation might be down to issued touch up and respray paints having various property changes in service, maybe some didn't get as mixed up as they should and maybe different manufacturers supplied 'off spec' paint Who knows? But the effects of the colour changes are visible all over the Merlin fleet, possibly on the Lynx/Wildcats too I have not looked into their colours Yet Any road up, this is what I was looking for... Pretty and intriguing for me So I present for your critical eyes, with much help from Scimitar and Pinky Coffeeboat and many other helpful friends ZH847 of 814 Sqn NAS The Un - Italeri details you can see dotted around are mostly thanks to kind efforts of Richard who sent me lots of pieces of etch and resin bits and later moulded alterations from redundant (I hope!) Revell kits which have far better detail added to the original Italeri mouldings The cabin interior has its sonobouy launcher and ready use racking inside and also the sonar winch assembly has been scratchbuilt and added The exterior Defensive suite has been scratchbuilt and popped onboard too as has the starboard side mounted FLIR Wescam Slight change of perspective More I hope you like it, I rather do Thanks for looking
