1/48 Hasegawa CH-124 Sea King

Gallery Article by Shawn "phantom" Weiler on Nov 7 2016

 

      

Another built for someone else. A Hasegawa CH-124 Sea King using a great many update resin sets from Belcher Bits. (I absolutely HATE building the tubes under the helicopter) Ah yes the decades past its prime Canadian Sea King. Thing has been (attempted) to be replaced now several times since oh......1990. There are new Cyclones sitting around CFB Shearwater in Halifax but we are still years from the Sea Kings being fully retired.

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The client is getting rotor blades from a Sea king I made for myself several years ago. The kit provided had its issues. Short shot on the fuselage which required a bunch of plastic card on the left nose. The rear rotor was in pieces requiring three of the five blades to be re-fastened and one missing blade to have a card replacement made. 

His new main rotor blades had two placed upside down from the builder who was not paying enough attention So my old Sea King gets the mistake and he gets the good ones. 

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Photos and text © by Shawn "phantom" Weiler