David Thor Beautiful! Great results. And thanks for the info on the quirks of this kit, i still have the polar version in my stash.

Clifford Keesler Awesome result Donald, well done.@Gareth,, I am getting ready to start the Academy Sea Dragon and it has the option to build the rotors and tail boom folded.

Gareth Windsor Nice Clifford, look forward to that. Generally speaking, most of the kits I've seen of Sea King don't have blade fold as an option (I've built the Fujimi kit and have the Airfix RN Search & Rescue and the Revell RN Tiger Meet Sea kings) which is why they don't look right sometimes when people do it. #1 blade down the spine and blades 2 & 5 either side of #1 straight back. It's #3 & #4 that are tricky as they rotate around 45° as they fold. The hinge would be quite flimsy too in a small scale. The Wessex (and I'm guessing the Choctaw as same airframes) needed extra support equipment fitted when they folded.

Donald Dickson II Wow, Choppa is so popular he gets credit for other peoples builds. LMAO But thank you Konrad! And David and Clifford as well.

Gareth, I have seen builds where they included the braces for the folded rotors. Evidently it was either good after market, or incredible scratch building.

Choppa Nutta Haha, sorry I just couldn't resist a cheap joke lol

Konrad Limmer Oh man...!
Of course it is Donalds one! Anyhow it is a great build

Choppa Nutta Yeah man, it is a great build

Donald Dickson II Thanks guys. And thanks for the laugh as well!

Ekki Excellent work. Well done!

Martin Oostrom We can't build in larger scales. Parts are too big for our hands

David Thor Such a crazy looking bird. Great job Donald!

Donald Dickson II Thank you all! I am humbled by your praise.

Martin, About to start up on a 1/48 H-34 Choctaw. For the same group build I did this one for.

Timothy, I swore I would not start doing them a lot. And I really AM trying not to do small planes like this in 72. But the kit had good reviews and was on sale...

David, I get a pregnant guppy vibe. LOL But a flipping FAST guppy!

Maciej Bellos Well done mate! Really shinny!

Gareth Windsor Another great job Donald. I may give the AK metals a go on my phantom when it's ready.

Łukasz Gliński It looks nice, the AK stuff gave a really cool result, but to be honest I wonder what happened to the air inlet part (pic 27). Thanks for the review anyway, good to know this kit is so nice OOB only . I have to consider buying me one as well.

Donald Dickson II Lukasz, thats my fault. I screwed up and had to hand paint that area as all the decals were on masking it would have been a nightmare. Im gonna fiddle with it at some point I am sure.

And thanks guys!

Łukasz Gliński Looks phabulous Sir, I like it

Konrad Limmer Very nice result Sir! Well done

perry w h leu Great job. I love it.

Donald Dickson II Thank you gentlemen!

Mike Daniels Looking good Donald. Always makes me think of 'Thuderball' the Bond Movie.

Ekki Beautiful! My favourite fixed-wing aircraft! Well done!

Donald Dickson II Mike, a number of people have said that on FB! LOL I need to re watch it because damned if I remember that.

And thank you both.

Clifford Keesler Very nice well done.

Donald Dickson II I did?????? Gotta check that....

Donald Dickson II Hmmmm, dont see it Martin

Timothy Heimer in the search enter skyraider and click on the pic. Earlier it was on the front page.

Patrick Hagelstein I saw it too! It was there!

Donald Dickson II Wow! I submitted it, but they never got back to me to tell me they were going to publish it. Thanks guys!

Timothy Heimer No problem! Keep up the good work and have fun!

Gareth Windsor Great build and well done

Donald Dickson II Thank you sir!

Donald Dickson II OK, so I started this on May first as part of a group build on the site International Scale Modeller. I have the Wolfpack decal set and seamless intakes.

This is an old and simple kit. It has its seam issues as you can see, but thats to be expected from a 30+ year old kit. The cockpit is non existent, but then you wont be able to see squat, so it would be wasted detail. I did a quick paint job on the pilots, not worrying too much about them as they will barely be seen.

As you can see, the exhausts are just holes. I used some brass tubing to make some rudimentary exhausts guts. Not fancy, but makes a world of difference IMO. Gotta do a little work with the bomb bay door areas and then on to painting. I have the colors in Tamiya acrylics and AK acrylics. I think I will use the AK as I have never used them before. Give them a go.

Łukasz Gliński Phabulous idea, have to watch it

Donald Dickson II Thank you sir.

Stefan Fraundorfer The Vulcan - yes! I'm in. I saw her flying at RIAT 2011 in Fairford. What a great plane.

Ekki Watching (my fav plane)!

Roland Sachsenhofer Wonderful! Yeah, I will watch and follow with interest!

Donald Dickson II Welcome gentlemen!

I got the underside painted last night. Have some more seam stuff to go back and do. And let me tell you, that is a LOT af area to paint with an airbrush. My finger was cramping by the time I was done. LOL

Donald Dickson II Alrighty! She is all done! Crappy decals and all, I think it turned out fairly well. as always, I think it could be better, but I am certainly not embarrassed by it.

Patrick Hagelstein You shouldn't be! Considering all the troubles you went through, this looks splendid! Nice weathering!

Donald Dickson II Thank you Patrick!

David Thor Looking great! Shame about the decals though. Always a bummer when you are hyped for a kit and then it turns out you can't build it like you want because of a failure of the company.

Donald Dickson II David, I cant agree more! And thank you.

Timothy Heimer Yea I think we've all had that feeling when that happens! Don I have seen you shine up some pretty bad turds! I don't know how you do it but they come out looking NICE!

Clifford Keesler She turned out really nice Donald, I am impressed. Good job.

Donald Dickson II Timothy and Clifford, thank you kindly sirs.

I dont know how well she will do at the show Sat, but hopefully at least pull a third. We shall see.

Donald Dickson II So, with my Goodwill grab of a cabinet for 5 bucks this weekend, I got places for all my completed models. They had shelves, but that does nothing to help them with dust. Now they are all snug.

Spanjaard 5 buck sfor this cabinet???

Donald Dickson II 5 bucks for the white one. The one with the F-15s and F-86s was actually free. The nice curio cabinet was a lot more. LOL

Konrad Limmer Ver nice collection

Paul Stubbs Nice work

nikolaos kouzinis Nice collection Donald

Donald Dickson II Thank you gentlemen.

Stephan Ryll Very nice collection Donald

Spanjaard sweet

Donald Dickson II I took that pic before they completely dried and set. You could clearly see the camo pattern a d colors through the white.

Stephan Ryll Oh what a pitty Donald , may you can try to repaint the white areas

Patrick Hagelstein Bummer....

Donald Dickson II Stephen, I tried that. Then reapplied the red stripes. They would not smooth out. This just is one of those that I need to set aside and come back to. I have markings for another F-4 left over from the Good Evening Da Nang boxing. I will just do those.

Stephan Ryll Keep calm, take your time it will turn out good Donald, I'm shure

Peter Hardy Don, you say they are black stripes, I say they are white stripes. All a matter of perspective. I have enjoyed going back over this build this Saturday morning, waiting for Mrs Hardy to wake up. Might even spend a bit of time on your wall too. Thanks for displaying the build. Very enjoyable!

Donald Dickson II Peter, good point! LOL Regardless, the white portion, be they stripes or no, is not much more than gauze when it comes to opacity. And feel free to peruse away!

Clifford Keesler Bummer.