HS 60 B "Sea Hawk" color(s)

The Italeri 1/48th Sea Hark directions call for a flat gull gray topside, with some dark ghost gray, and a light ghost gray bottom. This is very different from the pictures I have found on the web. The web pictures show an all gray aircraft, including the rotor blades. Can anyone help by identifying the gray being used currently on the Sea Hawks.

Your help is much appreciated and has been very valuable. My conversion of a 1/35th UH 1 C to a B for Maj. Kelly’s aircraft is moving along. I’m still looking for interior details of the cabin area for this medi-vac helo. Any additional references would be appreciated. Thanks again, rangerj

Italeri is renowned for getting their color info wrong. AFAIK, these are the colors for the Sea Hawk TPS;

Top= FS36320 Dark Ghost Gray
Mid Area=FS36375 Light Ghost Gray
Bottom=FS36495 Light Gray

The colors get touched up quite a bit while on cruise ( ship board duty is hell on the paint job), after awhile the colors look like one shade of gray.

HTH,

Rangerj,

This link might help you as a ref to what a “brand new” Seahawk would look, but like Alby mentioned, after being operational and at sea for a while, the paint job looks a solid gray.

http://www.sikorsky.com/details/0,3036,CLI1_DIV69_ETI264,00.html

Carl

here are a few more pictures
http://community.webshots.com/photo/71382270/69624303QjnXxz
http://community.webshots.com/photo/71382270/72892913smTbKg
http://community.webshots.com/photo/71382270/69899245JfxVAN
John
helicopters don’t fly, they beat the air into submission

Thanks guys. Thats is what I was looking for. The colors do blend to the point of being barely diferentiated. Add a little exaust stains, salt air, fuel, and sunlight, and the helo looks like it is one color. I’ll wash out the grays a little and dirty it up so it looks “used”.
I didn’t know helos could be this much fun, and interesting! (tongue in cheek, and a bit “cheeky”)
Thanks for your help. rangerj