Bruce Archer Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Hi All! I have had good luck here so I'll try again... In my stash I found a Westland Whirlwind HAS.22. I would Like to do a plane guard Whirlwind in RAF Blue-Grey. Can I do one or will I need to do some mods tot he kit? Drawings and Images would help. Thanx! Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Archer Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 16 hours ago, Bruce Archer said: Hi All! I have had good luck here so I'll try again... In my stash I found a Westland Whirlwind HAS.22. I would Like to do a plane guard Whirlwind in RAF Blue-Grey. Can I do one or will I need to do some mods tot he kit? Drawings and Images would help. Thanx! Bruce My fat fingers appear to have gotten in the way again, but The kit I found in the stash is an Airfix 1/72nd scale Whirlwind HAS.22 Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 The Airfix is representing a Sikorski-built HO4S-3, which is what the HAS.22 basically was. The plane guards were, AFAIK, HAR.10's with different engines and nose contours. (This thread might be more at home in the Cold War section, by the way - I have asked the mods to move it.) HTH!, Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 The HAS 22 was used as a plane guard by RN, and a straight 'out of the box' will suffice. They were initially in a gloss dark blue, and for plane guard work were successively painted yellow over sky, and EDSG over sky. These were Whirlwind Mk 1 and 2 only. Subsequent marks had the drooped tail boom, and eventually turbine power. Your other options are Admiral's Barge white over green, Antarctic Flight, black over orange, or RAF SAR golden yellow. There may be other options. For RAF blue grey scheme, with or without dayglo, you are looking at Mk 7 onwards. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Archer Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 Hi! Was the dark blue mentioned Oxford Blue? Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Originally outshopped in USN 'Midnite' blue https://www.airteamimages.com/pics/107/107471_800.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 13 hours ago, Bruce Archer said: Hi! Was the dark blue mentioned Oxford Blue? Bruce As far as I can remember Oxford Blue was only used on Lynx of the Royal Navy and eventually gave way to the greys of various parentages that modern helicopters seem embarrassed to find themselves in. (You may speculate that I prefer living in the past, I couldn't possibly comment!) 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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