Sikorsky H-3 Sea King

Steve Bogov Project to complete as "Old 66" the Apollo recovery helicopter, with some mods and a decal sheet from online

H.G. Barnes Hi Lewis, Would you be willing to part with this?

Burkhard D Yes, we had Bernhard as the guest star at our bi-monthly club event. That was fantastic. It turned out that all the detail on his Seaking Mk.41 are MUCH smaller than what the macro photos here on Scalemates suggest. Seeing a rotor head in 1/72 complete with hydraulic lines and and even the tiniest nuts and bolts was stunning. The NH-3 nicely portraits stressed skin effect from differential polishing along the spars and stringers of the wings, something not visible in the photos here.
Thanks again for visiting, Bernhard!

Gabor Szabo It's really beautiful!

FlyingCircus Ich habe das Modell gestern in echt gesehen. Wauu

Rafael Mozeto A masterpiece! No other words can discribe it.

Richmond Love these metallic finish models

Alberto Michieletto Wow Fantastic work, Congrats!

Clifford Keesler Excellent, very well done.

Ben Schumacher Absolutely stunning, Bernhard. I would really love to see your models in the flesh again - last time we've met was some 15 years ago in Cologne, if I remember correctly...

Brian Joy Birthday Prezzy

Florian H. Sieht schon sehr gut aus
Wie viel nacharbeit ist bei dem triebwerk nötig?

Michael Franz Ausschneiden, Triebwerk einkleben und gut - wenig Nacharbeit, es passt sehr gut!

Florian H. Das klingt gut und einfach, hoffentlich auch bei den Avionicbays...

Augie Wow love the work so far!

Łukasz Gliński Following

Ekki Me too.

Florian H.

Burkhard D That's a lovely idea. Cheers!

Aaron Liles Finished. Another from the shelf of doom, only took just over 3 years. Not my best but pleased it's finished. Quite a challenge for me but worth it. Will take better photos soon. Cheers

Łukasz Gliński Looks great, wish I had one on my shelf

Ekki Very good work! Well done!

Burkhard D Looks great from here, well done!

Nils Steyaert the project is underway

as this build is being assembled with another seaking, i have merged the 2 build topics into 1.
the plan started almost 2 years ago, but got delayed, witch might have been a good thing.

the orriginal plan was to build the 2 seaking from the Sweet kits OOB, however, recently AFV Club's new 1/144 SH-3 Sea King has become available, witch is far superiour to the Sweet offering, not to mention that it has an interiour option. i have decided to combine the Westland parts from the Sweet kits with the AFV kits to build a better 1/144 Sea King.

ice Nice idea! I'm in!

Greg Baker Sign me up!

Nils Steyaert main assembly on the kits is done, the fit is nearly perfect, only needs a little bit of thinned down filler on the bottom, otherwise it looks great. i did encounter some problems when cutting out certain smaller parts as the plastic of AFV is a little brittle.

Nils Steyaert finished

Florian H. Looking Vers nice

Erik De Smet Good idea and very nice built, Nils.

Mark Roberts Easy kit to complete with good fit of parts.

Harry Eder I take a seat!

Holger Kranich You are welcome, Harry! Hope you like it!

Ekki Sitting down too.

Holger Kranich You are welcome, Ekki!

Burkhard D "Boxart" is copyright me

Holger Kranich Wonderful, i had a flight in right this helo!!!

Bill Gilman @Burkhard - does that mean you were responsible for the design and/or painting of the actual helicopter? Very cool!

Burkhard D No, not at all. I just shot a photo walkaround of that bird at MFG2 Open House at Eggbeck NAS in 2003.

Holger Kranich And finally i build it!

Neuling Super build! Very well built, painted and photographed. Eine Augenweide.

Łukasz Gliński Awesome (as usual ) and demotivating at the same time, as Holger wrote

Bryn Crandell Great looking Seaking!

Burkhard D Just revisited this awesome 135-image tutorial and scrolled through twice. Great work meticulously planned and skillfully executed.

potez452 What an amazing job of detailing, painting and scratching !! We learn a lot when looking at your album. Thank you very much.

Thomas Hopfensperger So ein schöner Heli, Bernhard!!

Marcel Klemmer What a great result. Awesome!!!

Clifford Keesler Awesome job.

gerrye Does ANYONE have one of these that they no longer need?

sreilly87 I've got a 1/48 sea king

Ekki Any more pics?

Tim Sloan sorry at the moment I don't have any

Ekki Shame.

Tim Sloan I know..just getting my albums organized..haven't had a chance to get the rest of the photos done

Ekki Watching.

Tim Vereecke love the new look of projects? Including decal options and extended cover image

Günther Debiscop

Holger Kranich Jo, that looks good!

Martin Oostrom Looks nice. Not sure about the dark grey though, it's hard to see the machine gun next to the belgian flag.
Perhaps white background and the 'westland....' in SM green?

Stephan Ryll Yup that' nice

Nigel Home Complete Kit

Scott Hastings Westland Sea King FAA build from old Airfix kit. First use of SMD (surface mount device) LEDs which are tiny 1.0x0.5mm led lights. Fun build

Ekki Interested.

Brian Joy Many Thanks to Ali

Ekki Another one to watch.

Germen V take a seat

Nils Steyaert following
ps: Belgians are Mk.48's

Germen V I was too fast, i was confused with the Aussie Mk50 that i planned but cannot build because the only Revell left in my stash doesn't has a 6-blade tail rotor

Günther Debiscop Following.

Ekki Thanks for the information.

Lexi Perry-Weston Beautiful!

Ekki Progress!

Guus Please note that DACO do (or did) a range a paint as well. The Seaking tan and green are available: dacoproducts.com/KDCD48.php for the colour references. The stuff is pretty hard to come by depending on where you live. Verschooten in Antwerp used to do quite a good selection of DACO paints but I don't know what their stock is now.

Bart Meeldijk Mooi project!!

Nils Steyaert RS03 is almost finished, painting and building of the rotorblades are now done. when dry, the final decals will be applied and the model wil be finished, RS04 will follow at a later time. pics to follow soon.

Nils Steyaert RS03 is now finished

Ekki And it looks gorgeous! Well done!