RAN Sea King 50th Anniversary

Intervention !
Okay not that bad, just had a few sleepless nights that allowed me to move fast on this.  I actually do sound tired in some parts ....

Part 7

Part 8

RAN Sea King 50th Anniversary

Well, the Sea King conversion is going along nicely.

I've upload several videos.  I've found an old video that i did mid 2012, but never got around to posting until January 2013.
This is Part 3a

Part 4

Part 5

and Part 6

And here are a few pictures of the work i've done of late ...

RAN Sea King 50th Anniversary

I've been working on converting the Airfix 1/72 Westland Sea King AEW. Mk.2/ASaC.Mk7 into a Royal Australian Navy Mk.50 Sea King.

I had originally started uploading YouTube articles of the build, but had no blog of the build, so here it is ....

To catch everyone up to where I'm at, here is a run down on what I've been doing.

Brought the Airfix 1/72 Sea King kit and Hawkeye Models 50th Anniversary Decals.
So I'm converting this

into this

Here is a breakdown of the kit parts.
Basically the kit is a re-box with extra new parts.  The old sprue runners are the same as the original Sea King Rescue chopper.

The instruction sheet is a thin booklet, however there are 2 colour (painting) sheets included.

The Clear sprue come in their own seperate bag - this is a big change from previous Airfix boxings I've built.

On closer inspection, the parts all have molding flaws, all tranparent parts have dimples on both sides.  They all appear overly thick, so these should be easily sanded out.

The sprue trees all come in one bag.

 

 

Now to show you what I've been doing up until a few weeks ago, here are my Youtube videos of the build in action .....

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Dragon US Infantry, 2nd Armored Division (Normandy 1944) Diorama

Completed

okay, declaring this one completed .....

Dragon US Infantry, 2nd Armored Division (Normandy 1944) Diorama

Figures Part 2

I've added a Nemrod Medic and Wounded GI, drilled out the Flak Gun muzzles, repainted the flak gun, glued everything in place, added diorama scenery......

Dragon US Infantry, 2nd Armored Division (Normandy 1944) Diorama

Figures 

I'm somewhat behind on updating this Blog - so, I'll flood it with updates .....



Here I've built the figures and primed them ready for painting.





I've painted the figures, using a layering technique, where you start with a dark base (above) and work towards the highlights (below).
Model Master has a "Skin" Colour series.  Skin Tone Warm Tint, Skin Tone Shadow Tint and 2 other colours ....
I also used Model Master Tan (FS20400) and Humbrol 73.

Mixed a dark colour mix and slowly worked towards a light tone by mixing the lighter colours.  Used the layering technique - about 10 layers and then dry brushed with a Tan and Skin Tone Warm mix.

Me-110 Shelf Queen - Completed

and now pictures of the completed model