Model Airplane International - June 2018

16 MODEL AIRPLANE INTERNATIONAL - June 2018

SKILL LEVEL: BEGINNER

KIT BUILD

gone into this is truly wonderful. AFV Club

really went to great lengths to ensure every

decal and marking is correct.

The colours used are Insignia White upper

surfaces over Light Gull Grey. In this instance

I masked everything up beforehand. I began

with Hataka Insignia White and later added

Hataka Light Gull Grey.

There are black sections, I masked these

separately. I used Alclad Aluminium for the

engine exhaust panels and Tamiya X-7 on

the red sections. The main rotor blades are

painted with Hataka Light Gull grey on the

upper surfaces, with Tamiya NATO Black on

the undersides. Tamiya XF-3 Yellow was used

for the tips of the blades. For the main rotor

head and rear tail rotor mechanism, I used

Tamiya XF-17 Sea Blue.

The paintwork was initially sealed with

Alclad Aqua gloss before I applied the decals

and later sealed everything with another

coat of Aqua Gloss. I used a thinned wash

of Humbrol thinners, enamels and Winsor

& Newton oils based on dark grey and after

cleaning the wash off, I sealed everything with

a few coats of Alclad Klear Kote Semi-Matte.

For the tinted clear roof panels over the

cockpit I used Tamiya X-25 Clear Green,

thinned with about 80% Mr. Color Leveling

Thinner; this worked a real treat and I was

very happy with the result. All the other clear

panels were treated with future.

On fi nal assembly of all the loose parts I

was very happy with the overall result.

Moving onto the Canadian Navy example

I was a little disappointed to discover AFV

Club’s impressive attention to detail wasn’t

carried over from the US Navy example where

research and information was concerned.

In Canadian service the SH-3 Sea king

carries the designation CH-124. This Aircraft

number 05 wears livery from 1965 whilst

based on HMCS Bonaventure, 1965. To

begin with the colours recommended are all

completely wrong! After a little research of

various Canadian armed forces and modelling

websites I discovered the colours are a

little tricky to fi nd but the Sea King is well

documented.

The colours I settled on are to the best

of my knowledge the correct ones. The

lighter grey color being slightly different in

photographs as the colour faded into another

shade with age. As I was building a fresh

and clean Canadian example I went with the

Hataka A140 BS Extra Dark Sea Grey for the

upper sections and A203 Sky Grey for the rest

of the fuselage. I used Mr. Color Fluorescent

Orange for the day-glo sections.

There are less decals than the US navy

example but I am not sure there should be

as many missing as here in this kit. Using my

reference material I added where possible

detail that was missing from the

instruction guide.

Before moving onto the fi nal sealing coats

I attached all the loose parts. Shortly after

applying the decals I also decided to add the

some fuselage rigging from scratch. I couldn’t

resist it after stumbling across the set up I’d

seen in some video stills that I had grabbed

from a Canadian training video on YouTube.

After assembling the folding tail and fi tting the

folded main rotors correctly, I went one step

further and used larger rigging wire to tie-down

Canadian Sea King base

colours applied. Hataka Sky

Grey, Extra Dark Sea Grey and

Mr. Color Fluorescent Orange.

Port side of Canadian Sea

King base colours applied.

Hataka Sky Grey, Extra Dark

Sea Grey and Mr. Color

Grey, Extra Dark Sea Grey and Fluorescent Orange.

Mr. Color Fluorescent Orange.

Starboard side of Canadian Sea

King, decals applied.

To seal the decals prior to applying

the wash I gave this a coat of Alclad II

Aqua Gloss.

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