huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 Anyone know what colour the tops of the main rotor blades are please ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delticfan Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 What kits are available for this helicopter? Sorry to but in.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 AMP in 1/48th..a couple of versions. Mach, Britavia, Pavla (?) in 1/72 but a new one due from LF Models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixII Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 Hi @Scimitar, from what I've been able to dig up, the 'in service' colour seems to be black blades with yellow tips, see here:- https://www.flickriver.com/photos/michaelhibbins/44150552474/ If your going for a civilian (BEA) version, black blades with red/white/red tips :- http://www.zap16.com/2016/01/06/2010-cosford-royal-air-force-museum/imgp4942-westland-dragonfly-hr5-ws-51-bea-g-ajov/ May be of some use? Paul 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris57 Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 Aerodrom also did an example some time back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 4 hours ago, PhoenixII said: seems to be black blades with yellow tips, My memory of seeing them flying out of HMS Fulmar has the top surface lighter. Unfortunately colour photos of operational ones rather than restored ones are rare. The ones stored at Blackbushe for many years looked like the they had grey tops but I thought that was just fading then I found this one Is this just reflection from the flash? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e8n2 Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 I don't have any official publications to quote from, but for a long time on U.S. designed choppers it was gray over black on the main rotor blades. When the transition to just one color came along I don't know. Most likely from what I remember is that Light Gull Gray was used for the tops of the blades. Later, Dave 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixII Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 19 hours ago, Scimitar said: Is this just reflection from the flash? @Scimitar, don't know about 'flash' but have a look at the leading blade, just forward of the hub. Is it where the dust has been taken off by work being carried out? Random oil / grease? Because there's a heck of a build up of dust along the whole of the upper fuselage. Saw your reply Dave @e8n2, suppose it would depend on if any where delivered to the R.N. or all built by Westland in the U.K. @Scimitar, if it's not too pressing, I can have a word with one of our members, he was R.N. / F.A.A. for 20+ years. Don't hold your breath too much as he was trained on Wasps and Sea Kings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 I have browsed through a few pictures of Dragonflies in FAA service and I believe that the top of the blades was indeed grey, as this area looks lighter than the black clearly seen on the bottom of the same blades. Which grey ? hard to tell, could have been Medium Sea Grey from the contrast with other parts of the helicopters but this is just a guess. unfortunately the best pictures I've seen are of machines in eralier colour schemes, like the original overall aluminum and the later EDSG over Sky, the pictures I have of machines in RAF Blue Grey don't show the top of the blades well, meaning that if any change was introduced with that latest scheme I may well have missed it. Unfortunately I don't have any official reference to the colour specifications for FAA machines of the era, hopefully someone here has access to these 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted September 26, 2019 Author Share Posted September 26, 2019 1 hour ago, PhoenixII said: he was trained on Wasps and Sea Kings. Just a boy then! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixII Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Thank You for that @Scimitar 👍 the 'boy' is older than me! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted September 27, 2019 Author Share Posted September 27, 2019 I've just received an e-mail with a colour photograph of an operational Royal Navy Dragonfly. The tops of the blades are grey. Medium Sea Grey I would suggest. Sorry I can't show the photo. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris57 Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 (edited) Hi Scimitar Just located my Britavia example, the instructions show the upper surface of the rotor blades as Dark Sea Grey, with Matt Black for the lower surfaces and Matt Yellow tips. hth cheers Chris Hold everything, this info only applies to WG688 on HMS Bulwark 1955. For WG724 at Lossie in 1961, then it's Matt Black on both surfaces with Matt Yellow tips. I won't go looking for my Aerodrom one in the depths of the loft today, to much excitement already. Edited September 27, 2019 by chris57 Further reading 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted September 27, 2019 Author Share Posted September 27, 2019 I just looked at the photo again and its of an HR5 so my question of whether the colour change happened when they were converted is no longer relevant. I wonder if the change was notified to the factory and production blades then became all black with yellow tips? Cost saving perhaps? 1 hour ago, chris57 said: the instructions show the upper surface of the rotor blades as Dark Sea Grey, Mine are long gone! Have to disagree as I think it is lighter than DSG. Even allowing for the sunnier place : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris57 Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 2 hours ago, Scimitar said: I just looked at the photo again and its of an HR5 so my question of whether the colour change happened when they were converted is no longer relevant. I wonder if the change was notified to the factory and production blades then became all black with yellow tips? Cost saving perhaps? Mine are long gone! Have to disagree as I think it is lighter than DSG. Even allowing for the sunnier place : Fair comment, most of the guys involved with Britavia are long gone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolphin38 Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 A Couple of shots of the FAA Museum Example, they look black top and bottom with yellow tips. IMGP7314 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr SWScan00376 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr Willy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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