wafu_vasco Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 (edited) Hello Chaps, Continuing towards my aspiration of having The Shelf of Ping to showcase four of the world's most prominent ASW helicopters in current service, I've added the SH-60B Seahawk of the US Navy. The rotary enthusiasts will immediately note that as of 2015, this is now no longer in service with the US Navy and has been replaced with the MH-60R, but there isn't a kit for that yet and I didn't want to spend £20 on a conversion kit for an £8 model. Furthermore, I only realised half way through the build that I was using an old paint scheme and the newer US Navy grey is a much nicer look, but then the decals wouldn't have worked anyway. Of note, this aircraft has a Magnetic Anomaly Detector bolted to the right hand side. Many of you will know that for years, the exotically beautiful Sea King AEW2 and her replacement, the Sea King ASaC7, have been considered by many experts to be the Kelly Brook of the skies due to their elegant lines, delicate handling characteristics and high octane role. It's normally a very British thing to take an aircraft and then bolt an ugly bit of kit to one side of it to force it into doing a job it was never designed for, thus giving it all of the problems associated with asymmetric aerodynamic properties. Yet here we are, with the US Navy taking a troop transport helicopter, drilling a few holes in it, filling the back full of heavy kit and then using HBM to stick a multi-coloured kid's rocket to one side. Until 2015, at least, all of that has changed with the MH-60R. Anyhow, enough of the ASW history, here's a kit which was £8 new, including p+p, and you very much get what you pay for with it: The sorry saga of the build: Edited September 3, 2017 by wafu_vasco 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celt Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Looks well tidy to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermo245 Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Good result with what's not an easy kit and well done for sticking with it. The 1/72 Hobby Boss Seahawk/Jayhawk/Rescue Hawk kits are terrific and well worth checking out....really nice detail and build up lovely. Nice Merlin you got there too. Dermot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelglue Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Nice one, this kit from Hase' was always one I'd stare at on the store shelf as a kid, along with the Fujimi '53 and Seakings. It's great to finally be able to fulfill my childhood wants by combing through eBay for deals, but then they sit in a box in the basement as my childhood time as been gone quite a while! Thanks for posting, and allowing me to see the finished product I'll never get to... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wafu_vasco Posted September 9, 2017 Author Share Posted September 9, 2017 That's a sad tale, I genuinely hope you do get to build it! My childhood sad story is more about the generosity of family who spent years buying models for me at Christmas, only for me to utterly destroy them in a display of glue covered incompetence! There remains a box in my parents loft which, from a model making point of view, is like something out of a horror movie. Anyhow, if you do ever build this Seahawk it would be fantastic to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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