My 1982 Falklands HAS.2 Sea King flown by 824 NAS is now complete all bar the addition of its engine cover which I’m going to have to add a hand painted squadron badge to.
This is No.50 in its glorious peace time colour scheme before all squadron markings were removed and its numbers and lettering reapplied in black. I have another Airfix kit on the bench which will not only receive this scheme but also a machine gun!
My Sea King AEW Mk.2a, as flown by 849 NAS aboard HMS Illustrious in 1988, is complete.
The AEW was developed during the 1982 Falklands War after deficiencies in airborne early warning cost the Task Force dearly.
This kit was released in 2010 using Airfix’s 1969 tooling, a far cry from the detail and quality of the 2015 retooled Sea Kings I’ve previously loved building.
Currently this is the only Airfix kit with the radar attachment, which interestingly was provided on a separate sprue so I could have just used this on the later kit. However, once started, I just wanted to finish it as Airfix intended, it is after all a vintage classic even if not badged as such. It even had a hole for the old fashioned stand that I couldn’t resist using
My latest US Navy Dunkeswell B24-D Liberator is complete.
This is Minicraft’s 1:72 scale kit in the colours of B-13 ‘N' Berlin Express of VB-103 piloted by Lt. Chet Rief and Bruce Higgenbothem, and was one of the first Navy Liberators to arrive at Dunkeswell, Devon in 1943.
Unfortunately Berlin Express had a short operational history, crashing on 3 December 1943.
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The kit
Here’s my second Christmas F-86F Sabre, Capt. Charles McSwain’s “Mikes Bird”, which coincidentally flew in the same squadron as my first F-8...
