Airfix 1/72 Westland Sea King (03043)

[davecov]

My build of the Airfix 1/72 Westland Sea King (03043)

Another ancient Airfix kit - this is the 1984 retooling of the 1969 Airfix SH-3D Sea King kit.















It was festooned in rivets which I removed. I had to fight hard to get the cockpit transparency to fit and had to widen the fuselage quite a bit. I filled in the dome window holes and cut out new holes further forward. Unfortunately, I failed to change the lower front windows and only realised when it was too late. The torpedoes come from a 1969 SH-3D boxing.

Decals were a mix of kit decals and the Xtradecal Westland Sea King In Worldwide Service (X72351) set. I used the scheme for a Westland Sea King Mk.50, N16-125 "10" of 817 NAS, RAN in 1977.

Dave

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Very nice Dave.

[Richard48]

Looks super Dave.I gave up on my one.The rivets were like rough sandpaper and Windscreen gave me nightmares.
Good on you for beating into submission.I think i have 3 Revell ones and fair few of the tiny 1.144th Sweet ones.
Richard

[Airborne01]

Lovely job Dave!
Steve

[davecov]

Looks super Dave.I gave up on my one.The rivets were like rough sandpaper and Windscreen gave me nightmares.
Good on you for beating into submission.I think i have 3 Revell ones and fair few of the tiny 1.144th Sweet ones.
Richard

I have a Sixties boxing of the Airfix SH-3D and put the fuselage/transparency alongside the later boxing for comparison. As you can see, the later re-tooling transparency is a bit wider than the original. It also has tabs that fit inside the fuselage - which the original did not have:

You can also see by just how much I had to widen the fuselage by the plastic card pieces at the front.

Dave

[Richard48]

Gosh thats a fair bit of shimming to widen the fueslage.When Airfix re released these originals with AEW mk2a/7 asac and the rescue version i bought them thinking they were new tooling.Whata amistaka temaka.

[Jim R]

That is a really good result. Certainly a kit which many of us would have binned but you've built a great model.

[papa 695]

Great work Dave