1:144 scale SH-3G Sea King

That’s a lot of sweet detail packed in a 1/144 chopper!  I’m looking forward to seeing the progress.

Great work so far!

Having done a handful of these puppies, I have great respect for your mods to date. As with any Sea King kit, be sure to check window positions and fuel fill points to make sure they match your prototype.

Cheers

Thank you for calling my attention to these details!

I have a recent blog post detailing the work done to the main landing gear:

https://mpminiatures.wordpress.com/2018/07/14/sh-3g-sea-king-1144-scale-part-1/

Presently I'm opening the fuselage windows and I hope to share the results soon.

Cheers

That’s some amazing scratch building skills.  It looks fantastic.  Looking forward to the next installment.

Your friend, Toshi

Well, I could not get away from the idea of opening the fuselage windows!
They were marked with a pencil and carved out. They were replaced by items cut from 0.5mm clear plastic. I've opened a window that was marked on the fuselage, only to realize that it did not exist on the helicopter I am modelling! It was simply filled with a mixture of ca glue and talcum powder (with a small amount of a pigment, to tint it).












Primer was applied to check for imperfections and cover the clear parts (from inside they will show black color. The radar/sensor on the cockpit front was turned from brass rod.



The winch is also being scratchbuilt (I still need to build the support). The photo shows the comparison between the kit's part and the part I've turned and machined from brass rod. I will make a post (in a couple of weeks, if I manage) on my blog detailing the winch construction.


I hope to post more soon.

Cheers

Here are a few photos of the completed model.

I hope you like it.

Cheers

Marco, glad to see this one finally made it to the flight line. It looks spectacular!

BTW...I saw on your Wordpress page that you were planning another project with the same kit. I would heartily recommend replacing the kit's rotor blades with scratchbuilt from styrene sheet or strip. It's pretty quick and easy to do...and there's really no way to make the kit ones look any less 'clunky' for the scale. Here's the same kit with thinned-to-(near)-scale blades:

Not meant as a criticism...but I 'forgot' to replace them on the last Sweet build I did, and the difference really shows:

The NASA livery is really nice looking!

Thank you so much! Indeed, those main rotor blades are probably the bit of the model I like less! Your rotor blade looks much better!

I'm planning on making a Royal Navy Weatland Sea King HAR, in the yellow livery (I think it is very eye katching)!

Thank you again for your suggestion (I will definitly follow it)!

Cheers

marcopreto

Thank you so much! Indeed, those main rotor blades are probably the bit of the model I like less! Your rotor blade looks much better!

I'm planning on making a Royal Navy Weatland Sea King HAR, in the yellow livery (I think it is very eye katching)!

Thank you again for your suggestion (I will definitly follow it)!

Cheers

 

Couple of things, the yellow Sea Kings were RAF not RN