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Thers nothing wrong at all with that model but nowadays ppl use 1/48 scale as opposed to 1/72. I believe "hasegawa" make a really nice 1/48 scale seaking helicopter. You'll find that kit quality is LOT better, goes together far easier due to greater precision of the mouldings, and has far more intrinsic detail, costs more though but deffo worth it. Is your interest purely helicopters are aviation in general?
Have a look at a website called "hannants", that'll give you an idea as to whats available. Theres also loadsa publications written as to how to get the best from your model, a particularly good set is written by a Belgian guy called Fransoise Verlinden, VERY much worthwhile reading that.
 
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Scale is obviously dependant on what the model is. A 1/72 model of a car will be tiny, but a model of the same scale of a oil tanker will be huge.

Look at "finished model" dimensions.
 
i built that model when i was a kid :D great model when its completed its about 2 palmm lengths long, not very wide at all

think of it as if it was 1/2 size it would be exactly half the size of the original. but 1/72 on an eggabogga like i say it was about a palm lengths long.
 
Remember you don't have paint it as an RAF rescue heliocopter. You could also paint it as Marine 1 (US President's chopper) as that is also a Sea King
 
Well you use your head to figure out how big its gonna be.

Seaking Helicopter Length - 16.69m
Seaking Helicopter Height - 5.13m


Model Length- (16.69/72) * 100 = 23.2cm
Model Height- (5.13/72) * 100 = 7.1cm

:)
 
momentimori said:
Remember you don't have paint it as an RAF rescue heliocopter. You could also paint it as Marine 1 (US President's chopper) as that is also a Sea King
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Without wishing to be pedantic, actually, that's not true.

Marine 1 is not a helicopter at all. It's a callsign. It is certainly true that the Presidential fleet includes Sea Kings (or rather, a specific variant of Sea King which, after all, is a range name not a name for a specific model), but the Presidential "helicopter" is actually a fleet of choppers including both Sea Kings and Nighthawks. Any one of these aircraft is Marine 1 if and only if the President is on-board.

Oh, and the Sea Kings are due to be replaced in a couple of years by US101's, starting in 2009 (delayed from 2008).

The same logic, incidentally, is true of Air Force 1 which not only includes the two 747's most people usually recognise as Air Force 1, but a variety of other aircraft, from Gulfstream business jets, upwards.
 
Sequoia your posts remind me of Harley who used to post on here, spot on with everything he said... Double account? ;) interesting to read just now though :)
 
Phate said:
Sequoia your posts remind me of Harley who used to post on here, spot on with everything he said... Double account? ;) interesting to read just now though :)
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That Harley thing has been said before. :)

I have just one account. A communis ..... comish ... commish .... oh bother! An Admin has previously confirmed that.

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Sequoia said:
That Harley thing has been said before. :)

I have just one account. A communis ..... comish ... commish .... oh bother! An Admin has previously confirmed that.

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lol :p

i bet harley a.k.a known as Sequoia actually moved houses. hence he stopped posting. then resgined up, therefore different I.P therefore an Admin confirming you being different.

Yes be afraid....very afraid....<insert evil laugh>
 
you know that the YAK-3 looks so similar to the american and british planes of the time because it was created from an amalgamation of the Spitfire and the mustang, provided during the war because the russians couldn't/wouldn't design their own.
 
Doesnt the yak-1 look similar to the yak-1 which came before the mustang and only a wee bit after the spitfire?

Maybe my dates are screwed up but anyway the yak-3 is quite different to the spitfire and therefore must have been designed. I mean why did people shoot down hurricanes cos they thought the were messerschmitts? Cos they looked alike i bet.
 
stalin had imprisoned or killed anybody he thought was a threat and that included the best aircraft designers who were imprisoned .when the germans invaded they were released and quickly began to design new aircraft to combat the luftwaffe .i read somewhere that the la5 was designed and prototype in less than 90 days ,so maybe the need for quick designs lead to the need to copy certain features of other aircraft.
 
Aod said:
you know that the YAK-3 looks so similar to the american and british planes of the time because it was created from an amalgamation of the Spitfire and the mustang, provided during the war because the russians couldn't/wouldn't design their own.
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The similarities are striking all were designed around the same time, apart from the Spitfire had it's maiden flight in 1936, it was inferior in war terms to a Hurricane back then. The Yak-1 and P-51 I both had their maiden flights in 1940.
However, the Spitfire was never given to the VVS under lend lease and a handful of early P-51 models were given after the Yak-1 was in serial production. The Hurricane and P-39 airacobra were given in fair quantities however. So to say that the SU couldn't design their own planes is not true as they designed many successful ones completely on their own such as the LA-5, IL2, MIG-3 - In war terms many of these were superior to British and American aircraft of the time because of their high performance and very low production costs. By the end of the war the Yak-3 was only inferior to the very best of the 109 and FW-190 variants, and only then at higher altitudes.
 
William said:
The similarities are striking all were designed around the same time, apart from the Spitfire had it's maiden flight in 1936, it was inferior in war terms to a Hurricane back then. The Yak-1 and P-51 I both had their maiden flights in 1940.
However, the Spitfire was never given to the VVS under lend lease and a handful of early P-51 models were given after the Yak-1 was in serial production. The Hurricane and P-39 airacobra were given in fair quantities however. So to say that the SU couldn't design their own planes is not true as they designed many successful ones completely on their own such as the LA-5, IL2, MIG-3 - In war terms many of these were superior to British and American aircraft of the time because of their high performance and very low production costs. By the end of the war the Yak-3 was only inferior to the very best of the 109 and FW-190 variants, and only then at higher altitudes.
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*points* WWII plane Buff!!!

i used to be one when i was about 7 or 8, but after leaving Zimbabwe, i forgot most of it.
 
Phate said:
lol :p

i bet harley a.k.a known as Sequoia actually moved houses. hence he stopped posting. then resgined up, therefore different I.P therefore an Admin confirming you being different.

Yes be afraid....very afraid....<insert evil laugh>
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Well it's not as if Harley couldn't post from different IPs, given his status as the tyrannical owner of a vast, sprawling global conglomerate with operations in every country and ties to every government
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However, his intimate knowledge of Presidential aviation call signs has confirmed my suspicions that Harley and Sequoia are both Dick Cheney, former CEO of Halliburton (who probably has enough money to buy two F&M hampers for his employees every Christmas) and current Vice President of the United States of America.

Although he wasn't born in the UK, so I guess that scuppers it.
 
The later LA-9 had a similar performance to that of the Gruman Bearcat and the UK’s Seafury – probably the pinnacle of prop driven fight planes. There are some very interesting fighter aircraft the Russians produced from 43 onwards

Have a question though William, I agree with most of your post but I wonder why you state that the Spitfire was initially inferior to the Hurricane in war terms?
Additionally, and at this time I would need to do some digging for proof, there were Spitfire equipped Russian squadrons – Mk5 and Mk 9’s I believe but as I say I would need to delve.
 
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