1/72 Airfix Seaking HAR.3 (old tool) Finished

[Westlandaircraftenthusiast]

Hi all, hope you had a happy Christmas. 

 

On Christmas my stash has grown a little, by ten. These included 5 lynx (ready for the 50th year since its first flight), A Rotodyne, Belvedere, Whirlwind, Seaking (all 72 scale) and finally a 1/144 A380 (which is mahoosive) 

 

It took me a while to choose, but as the title suggests i chose the Seaking to build.

 

Being the old tool kit, i have heard a lot of bad about it. So far, apart from having a non existent interior, its not terrible. I decided to only add seat belts to the cockpit seats and nothing else for the interior. 

 

 

I have now added the canopy, which was a struggle, and started filling.

[Westlandaircraftenthusiast]

585 has been fully built, sanding and filling has been almost finished. Not too much bad too say about this build if I'm honest, definitely not the worst kit i have tackled. Rotors and Radome left removable for ease of painting.

[Westlandaircraftenthusiast]

585 has been all painted up (and decalled now but that will be a subject for tomorrow)

 

Yellow is Tamiya X-8, and had a base coat of Xf-3 (just because it wasn't yellow enough)

 

Not too much to say about it yet.

[junglierating]

Crack on looking good (for RAF SAR).🤔😀

[Westlandaircraftenthusiast]

19 minutes ago, junglierating said:

Crack on looking good (for RAF SAR).🤔😀

Cheers, and yep should end up as a RAF SAR bird and not one that enter the fire dump, well that is the plan

[Westlandaircraftenthusiast]

Finished the king probably the best of a week ago now, and I have let myself down. I decided to try to add some exhaust staining to it (which i never do) and completely messed it up. Luckily it wasn't the best of kits, and i want to build another HAR.3 in the future. The decals are ever so slightly milky, I'm assuming its just down to the age. (its not silvering, im a bit too used to that) The mrbs weren't painted in any particular way, just looked at some HAR.3 photos and like them with one yellow blade. I look the like of this one, but hate it at the same time. I also forgot to add clear smoke to the sun windows but oh well.

 

[perdu]

Love it