The seaking entered
service with the Royal Malaysian Air Force in the 1960tees. It is still in
service today with 3 flying squadrons. The Seakings are known locally as "Nuri"
which actually is a type of bird. They are tasked with various duties and make
up to be the work horse of rotary wing craft in the RMAF.
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The kit is a
hasegawa offering. I did not built this kit myself as I bought it
incomplete at a Hobby Shop in K.L. I picked it up because, I wanted to have
two Nuris in my collection one with old markings (this kit) and one with
new markings by yet to be built Hasegawa Seaking of mine. I only got the kit
weathered, painted the band, bought new blades and etc from Revell Germany
and of course decalling and fine tuning. Overall I think it turned out quite
nice and I am quite happy with it. Decals were taken from the Tutor kit,
thanks Todd and Ken again for helping here and the serials were custom printed
by Richard Chaffer of Gekko Graphics...Thanks Richard.....a special mention once
again to Richard as he put in a lot of effort and help in getting these decals
printed for me. Much obliged. Thomas Ng and Mazlan Yusof for their help in
referencing and advise. Much obliged guys and not forgetting Steve Bamford and
all at ARC for giving us a platform to exchange and display our work. Thanks
all....Happy Merdeka to all Malaysian and all TUDM/RMAF personal.
The model depicted
here is circa 1970 -1980. It has the old larger national markings and without
the radar/radome in the nose, Intake covers and other improvements as
seen on RMAF Nuris today. It also has the red/orange band aft which
actually identifies it as a operational conversion bird. It is still not 100 %
complete as Malaysian Seakings had a lot of stenciling in yellow, I am
in the process of planning to get them done.
Cheers and Thanks
Brian
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