Lynx HMA.8 815 Sqn HMS SOMERSET
- gengriz
- Active Participant
- Posts: 666
- Joined: May 1st, 2011, 10:22 am
- Location: Aquae Sulis
- Contact:
Lynx HMA.8 815 Sqn HMS SOMERSET
To kick the Easter weekend off in style, I have completed my most recent Lynx model (my 8th Lynx) in the markings of 815 Sqn Fleet Air Arm, as previously embarked in HMS SOMERSET.
Last month (March) saw the final retirement of the lynx from the RN, after a career of nearly 40 years. It has now been replaced by the AW159 Wildcat, which is essentially an advanced Lynx development, but to my mind, nowhere near as elegant an aircraft!.
This one is based on the modern Hobbyboss kit, which is a fairly easy and satisfying build, but has some serious shape and detail issues, some of which I have sorted, others of which are beyond my skills. I definitely prefer the Airfix offering. However, my finished model "looks like a Lynx to me!"
The RN Mk8 issue doesn't seem to be easy to find around these parts, so this is the German issue, which i also used for my Black Cats Lynx. I think the box contents are the same though.
I haven't yet written up all of the changes I have made, but in essence:
Rotor head mount trimmed down (it sits about 4m too high)
Tail rotor direction reversed
Top and bottom door rails added
Airfix doors substituted (Hobbyboss window in wrong position)
Inflatable internal seat added (taken from an Airfix kit)
IR/laser detectors added to nose/flanks/disco ball under tail
Flare launchers added to undercarriage sponsons
Wire MF aerial added
CPI added to top of tail
Rear flotation bags added to sponsons.
Engine top deck modified
Several wires/cable details added.
... and the main things I couldn't change:
Windscreen too shallow & rounded
Simplified rotor head (no actuators)
BERP blades very poor shape
Fuselage underside too curved
Nose underside profile wrong - seems to curve up too much.
I'm also not sure the flares would be appropriate for a full Sting Ray weapon load, but who knows
And to finish, a tiny trio of Mk 8s -
and a wild pack of Lynx.....
FredT
Last month (March) saw the final retirement of the lynx from the RN, after a career of nearly 40 years. It has now been replaced by the AW159 Wildcat, which is essentially an advanced Lynx development, but to my mind, nowhere near as elegant an aircraft!.
This one is based on the modern Hobbyboss kit, which is a fairly easy and satisfying build, but has some serious shape and detail issues, some of which I have sorted, others of which are beyond my skills. I definitely prefer the Airfix offering. However, my finished model "looks like a Lynx to me!"
The RN Mk8 issue doesn't seem to be easy to find around these parts, so this is the German issue, which i also used for my Black Cats Lynx. I think the box contents are the same though.
I haven't yet written up all of the changes I have made, but in essence:
Rotor head mount trimmed down (it sits about 4m too high)
Tail rotor direction reversed
Top and bottom door rails added
Airfix doors substituted (Hobbyboss window in wrong position)
Inflatable internal seat added (taken from an Airfix kit)
IR/laser detectors added to nose/flanks/disco ball under tail
Flare launchers added to undercarriage sponsons
Wire MF aerial added
CPI added to top of tail
Rear flotation bags added to sponsons.
Engine top deck modified
Several wires/cable details added.
... and the main things I couldn't change:
Windscreen too shallow & rounded
Simplified rotor head (no actuators)
BERP blades very poor shape
Fuselage underside too curved
Nose underside profile wrong - seems to curve up too much.
I'm also not sure the flares would be appropriate for a full Sting Ray weapon load, but who knows
And to finish, a tiny trio of Mk 8s -
and a wild pack of Lynx.....
FredT
50+ years of modelling: http://www.gengriz.co.uk
Recently retired after completing the biggest and most amazing construction kits in the whole world, EVER:
http://youtu.be/2syAt3jXq4s[/color]
Recently retired after completing the biggest and most amazing construction kits in the whole world, EVER:
http://youtu.be/2syAt3jXq4s[/color]
- iggie
- Modelling Gent and Scholar
- Posts: 23417
- Joined: July 31st, 2013, 11:04 am
- Location: North Somercotes, Lincolnshire
- Contact:
Re: Lynx HMA.8 815 Sqn HMS SOMERSET
That's a superb looking build Fred, and your collection of Lynx is equally delightful!
Best wishes
Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
- Clashcityrocker
- Modelling Gent and Scholar
- Posts: 10798
- Joined: May 1st, 2011, 12:31 am
- Location: Adelaide. South Australia
Re: Lynx HMA.8 815 Sqn HMS SOMERSET
Very nice. Great pack of Lynxes? too.
Nigel
Nigel
- JamesPerrin
- Looks like his avatar
- Posts: 13669
- Joined: April 5th, 2011, 8:09 pm
- Location: W. Yorkshire
- Contact:
Re: Lynx HMA.8 815 Sqn HMS SOMERSET
The lynxes look really impressive as a collection.
Classic British Kits SIG Leader Better to fettle than to fill
(2024 A:B 5:2) (2023 13:8:7) (2022 21:11) (2021 15:8) (2020 8:4:4)
(2024 A:B 5:2) (2023 13:8:7) (2022 21:11) (2021 15:8) (2020 8:4:4)
-
- Modelling Gent and Scholar
- Posts: 4421
- Joined: May 1st, 2011, 11:14 am
- Location: Doncaster, Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire.
Re: Lynx HMA.8 815 Sqn HMS SOMERSET
Lovely work and cracking line up.
- Dazzled
- Modelling Gent and Scholar
- Posts: 9592
- Joined: October 1st, 2011, 11:08 pm
- Location: Mid Glamorgan, South Wales
- Contact:
Re: Lynx HMA.8 815 Sqn HMS SOMERSET
Outstanding collection and some brilliant attention to detail
COLD WAR S.I.G. LEADER
Wherever there's danger, wherever there's trouble, wherever there's important work to be done....I'll be somewhere else building a model!
Wherever there's danger, wherever there's trouble, wherever there's important work to be done....I'll be somewhere else building a model!
- DavidWomby
- Modelling Gent and Scholar
- Posts: 11750
- Joined: May 1st, 2011, 8:09 pm
- Location: Florida, USA
Re: Lynx HMA.8 815 Sqn HMS SOMERSET
That's a great looking HMA.8 and your collection looks phenomenal together like that.
David
David
Re: Lynx HMA.8 815 Sqn HMS SOMERSET
Very nice sir.Has anybody made a 1/32 HMA.8 combining the Revell HAS.3 and the radome and extra "bits" from the MK.88.A ?
Just wondering thats all.
Paul
Just wondering thats all.
Paul
Re: Lynx HMA.8 815 Sqn HMS SOMERSET
What a lovely model Fred. And the collection - wow! I enjoyed looking at all the pics.
Stu
Stu
Old fashioned paint brush user.
-
- NOT the sheep
- Posts: 26180
- Joined: November 26th, 2011, 6:11 pm
- Location: Pontefract West Yorkshire
Re: Lynx HMA.8 815 Sqn HMS SOMERSET
Another Lynx - just like buses, don't see one for ages and then two turn up at once Really great work with this Fred, it certainly looks enough like a Lynx to satisfy me and what an excellent collection of these helicopters you have built up. Top work
Doing - Tamiya 1/35th Universal Carrier.
Work is the curse of the modelling classes!
IPMS#12300
Work is the curse of the modelling classes!
IPMS#12300
- Marek
- Modelling Gent and Scholar
- Posts: 2455
- Joined: May 1st, 2011, 8:03 am
- Location: Madison, WI
- Contact:
Re: Lynx HMA.8 815 Sqn HMS SOMERSET
Brilliant build. Hobbyboss does look like a Lynx, even with all its shortcuts and inaccuracies. I really like how yours came out.
- Chuck E
- Established 1949
- Posts: 2421
- Joined: May 3rd, 2011, 8:05 pm
- Location: Darlington. Home of the Railways
Re: Lynx HMA.8 815 Sqn HMS SOMERSET
Excellent model and what a great collection. Very nice work. Impressed.
So many models, so little time.