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How about a sheet for the Sea King? I'd personally love to do the ASH-3D/H from the Italian Navy but there's also Argentina, Brazil, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Canada to name but a few.

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A 1/72 Sea King sheet has been on my mind for a while. It is a bit premature to announce a product, but it is on my "to-do" pile for later this year or 2020.

 

I already have Sea King drawings for my longer-term dream project of offering a complete 1980s USN air wing on a super set of 1/72 scale decals.

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Oh yeah! A "grey" US Navy Seaking would be nice, and of course a "blue" Italian Navy Seaking. On the other hand, Italeri announced a re-box of the Fujimi 1/72 Seaking - better wait and see what decals they will offer with the kit.

 

 

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Oh dang I just posted about modern 1/72 markings for the CH-124 over in the rotor head section.  There is no one doing those markings that is not some special paint job.  It would be great to have a sheet that included just normal Canadian markings for the CH-124.

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2 hours ago, ridinshotgun said:

Oh dang I just posted about modern 1/72 markings for the CH-124 over in the rotor head section.  There is no one doing those markings that is not some special paint job.  It would be great to have a sheet that included just normal Canadian markings for the CH-124.

 

 

Not sure about 1/72, but Belcher Bits does these in 1/48 and the resin required to do the Canadian modifications.

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5 minutes ago, phantom said:

 

 

Not sure about 1/72, but Belcher Bits does these in 1/48 and the resin required to do the Canadian modifications.

 

They only have the resin remaining in 1/72.  The decal sheet in 72 they had has been sold out for several years and according to them there are no plans to re-release it.  Canadian specialty decal suppliers are vanishing fast and not many bright spots on the horizon.  ☹️

 

Except Kursad of course!  :nanner:

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16 hours ago, ridinshotgun said:

 

They only have the resin remaining in 1/72.  The decal sheet in 72 they had has been sold out for several years and according to them there are no plans to re-release it.  Canadian specialty decal suppliers are vanishing fast and not many bright spots on the horizon.  ☹️

 

Except Kursad of course!  :nanner:

Don't know if you have seen this but this new sheet in development  looks like it has a Canadian Desert Storm machine coming:

https://www.72news.eu/2019/03/air-graphics-desert-storm-decals-sheet.html

and he is well along so no need for Kursad to look at that scheme, but others would surely be appreciated......

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23 minutes ago, RCAFFAN said:

Don't know if you have seen this but this new sheet in development  looks like it has a Canadian Desert Storm machine coming:

https://www.72news.eu/2019/03/air-graphics-desert-storm-decals-sheet.html

and he is well along so no need for Kursad to look at that scheme, but others would surely be appreciated......

 

Nope hadn't seen that.  That is also a different bird than the one Belcher had on his sheet for the Gulf War.  What would be great is to have the basic stencils and then a block of numbers provided to mark up custom aircraft numbers.  Belcher has done it that way on his sheets.  Also the variations of the main markings.  This pic shows two variations from Shearwater just before retirement:

 

 

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On 4/4/2019 at 4:23 AM, riffraff said:

I would love to see some decals for this scheme.

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That style finish was available in both 1/72 and 1/48 from Belcher

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/belcher-bits-bd3-canadian-helicopters--130453

and Cutting Edge

http://www.ipmsusa.org/reviews/Archive/Decals/Aircraft/Cutting_Edge_Decal_48008/Cutting_Edge_Decal_48008.htm

 

I have both sheets in 1/72, but am probably not going to use either - my half-built CH-124 is destined to be overall 501-109 using this Flight Colours sheet

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/flight-colours-72a04-sikorsky-ch-124-sea-king--196910

 

On 3/26/2019 at 5:08 PM, RCAFFAN said:

Don't know if you have seen this but this new sheet in development  looks like it has a Canadian Desert Storm machine coming:

https://www.72news.eu/2019/03/air-graphics-desert-storm-decals-sheet.html

and he is well along so no need for Kursad to look at that scheme, but others would surely be appreciated......

 

I printed my own 'Stealth Duck' decals - along with others - a few years ago for my ongoing Sea King builds (the red outlined section indicated the markings being used on my Apollo 7 SH-3A build over on Britmodeller)

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I've also home-printed and used a full set of markings for a Point Mugu UH-3A - my builds completed so far can be viewed here:

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/profile/14104-andyf117/&tab=field_core_pfield_11

 

 

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