Aaron great start that still looks quite a fair size kit for 1/72 scale and nice bright seats to will they get toned down or left to stand out when the two halfs are joined.
Sometime in the next week or so I will be visiting my local RNLI Launch centre on the river Tyne near Newcastle, to do a walk around feature. Just found out that my supervisor at work used to be a volenteer at that station and he is organizing a vist for me with the boats Maintinance engineer

Gents my build so far hull and deck fitted with some of the cabin done

Hope all is well with you all and builds are progressing

Nice progress Aaron and beefy.

Finall got my finger out on Revell's Dolphin. It's not really a HH-65 at all but a re-pop of Matchbox's Dauphin but in red (lots of it) and some very generic USCG decals.







Lots of inaccuracies/missing bits that I won't even start to go into but left-side cabin window definitely needs to go.



And no interior detail so that's where I started..Before..



During..



After..





All mostly from the spares box or scratchbuilt. The rear seat is from a Gazelle and fuse wire for the seat loops.

Thanks for looking everyone and happy modelling.

Dermot

Dermot great start you were not kidding when you said lots of RED plastic. Your interior detailing looks great with all the packs and instrument painting

Dermot & Keith - good start! Nice job on the interior Dermot.

I still have a few builds in the queue, will not start this one till the summer.

Not sure which kit yet; but probably the Airfix RAF 63ft Rescue Launch.

If any of you guys want to read a really good book about ASRLs, pick up a copy of CRASH BOATS OF GORLESTON by Tony Overill. It tells how they did theilr jobs and what dangers they faced ... both from the enemy and allies alike ...

A fascinating read ...

I could not put it down.

Garth

Thanks for that book info Garth will keep an eye out for that when I,am at my next show at the end of the month
Cheers Keith

ok this tread is finally starting to see some action, I got my cockpit together and painted it still need some touch up and the decals that came with it
My only my 2nd time working in this scale since getting back into the hobby

Sal nice to see a start from you aswell are you planning on adding the seat harness or is that a decal to go with the instruments. you could use thin strips of tin foil to make the harness

Yeah the kit comes with decals for the seat belts and instruments

Latest update here, most of the building is completed just need to add a few more thing before I start masking off all that glass in order to shoot it with some primer

Looking good Sal must be some size kit by the markings on your cutting mat keep them coming Gents

Ready to get cracking. Here is the kit, White Ensign's 1/350th Fairmile long range rescue launch.





The plan is to waterline the launch, 5 mins work with a 2nd cut file, set on a base approaching a rubber dinghy to rescue a downed pilot.

more soon

Si

Sal - nice progress and big kit!

Simon - that's going to look great in a diorama!

All the best,

Dermot

From one BIG kit to a small kit that will look great in your planned dio Simon

I have taken the lower hull off with a file, and got the painting, hating masking I have done bottom & top painted, then one masking job in the middle.





SI

thanks for the comments guys the wing span is a tad bit over 16inches, but my preferred scale is 1/35 Here it is all masked up and ready for primer
Should get the 1st coat of silver paint on it today

Nice work Sal,

The "Massive" number of resin parts have been added, all 4 of them (Dragon eat you hear out)., and the basic dtail painting done. Just needs a tidy up prior to getting on with the etch.





Si

Here is a progress update sprayed the whole plane with Tamyia X-11 chrome silver then masked it off and sprayed it with craft store acrylic yellow
this was the 1st time I used the cheap craft store paint in the AB. It came out a little on the dull side hopefully a coat of gloss clear will correct that. here it is unmasked next up some hand painting

Simon looks great so far will be interesting to see how you tackle the small PE

Sal your going at some speed with your build looks great so far keep them going Gent,s will now be fully concentrating on my build to now that some other work is done

Looking good Sal, don't envy you all that masking.

Thanks Keith, hope to get some time at the work bench over the long weekend, so should be able to post some progress.

Will be using L'Arsenal twin & single 20mm, as I find those the best compromise in level of detail & ease of handling.

Si

Some more progress,



The L'Arsenal single & twin 20mm, in the bag are the resin twin barrels.



Sheilds gun carriages added to the sheilds on the fret



twin mounting completed and fitted. Single sheilds added awaiting barrels. The railings have been fitted, they need a bit of straightening out, they are finest & most fragile I have handled.

Si

Simon, I didnt realize how small that ship was you are making there is it going in a bottle

Here is some progress on my SB-17 decals have been applied
and some of the black marking lines were not supplied as decals so they have been painted on
I sprayed it with gloss and dont know what happened but the national insignia on the top of the wing got ruined, must have been some gremlins so now that needs to be repaired

Simon - superb job on that Fairmile...and that scale too!!

Sal - your SB-17 is impressive and progressing quickly!

Best wishes,

Thanks Dermot.

The B17 lookig good too Sal.

Progress, this time on the base. Have decided on a calm day, to make the seascape simpler.

The position of the boat & the raft were worled out by tiral & error on the base.



and drawn in, including the wake of the boat.



The rasied portion of the wake was added with plastic rod, and i have also started on scratchbuilding the raft.



The base has now been covered with lightly rumbled tinfoil, (ordinary cheap kitchen foil is best)



next jobs, spray a base colour on the base, paint some crew & downed airmen & find some suitable decals for the boat.

Si