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Trumpeter 1/48 Hawker Seahawk HMS Centaur 1959


Panzerwomble

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On the advice on another LSP thread... apparently this one was worth a go ....the decals are a little fragile ....it's needs a fair amount of unspecified weight in the nose, but otherwise a pleasant model to make that didn't need it's own tube of filler, so thanks for the advice fellas .  Mostly OOB , masked serials for this one , odd bit of plastic replaced with metal but not a lot to it otherwise. 

 

So 1959 - 1960 my father served on HMS Centaur on it's cruise from Devonport to Singapore via Shri Lanka . He would have been a 32 year old PO at the time . Not a huge number of pictures... however this one that took my interest , crew sunbathing on a baking deck . The Seahawks of 801 RNAS sat waiting  .

 

Always liked Seahawks from 1/72 Airfix days ...and EDSG ....well ..?

 

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& so 

 

 

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Engine room engineers tend to be below decks most of the time only emerging  portside !

Scenes here of the man himself amongst the arrival ceremony of HMS Centuar at Singapore Jan 1960 .

 

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Cheers All 

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