Merlin HC3: a hard day at the office 1
Last year, when I posted my L118 light 105mm guns, Snuffwuzz asked what was going to move them. In Afghanistan, these artillery pieces are sometimes moved by helicopter, to avoid the IED threat. So here, early one morning, an RAF Merlin HC3 is hauling one across Helmand province to some remote artillery position supporting Forward Operating Bases.
For heavy lifting, the RAF also uses the famous American Chinook, but others, notably Mad Physicist , have already created fine Lego renderings of that wonderful flying truck. So I decided to have a go at a minifig-scale model of the RAF’s other large chopper, which I have not yet seen created in Lego: the (largely) home-grown AgustaWestland AW101 Merlin HC3.
Merlin HC3: a hard day at the office 1
Last year, when I posted my L118 light 105mm guns, Snuffwuzz asked what was going to move them. In Afghanistan, these artillery pieces are sometimes moved by helicopter, to avoid the IED threat. So here, early one morning, an RAF Merlin HC3 is hauling one across Helmand province to some remote artillery position supporting Forward Operating Bases.
For heavy lifting, the RAF also uses the famous American Chinook, but others, notably Mad Physicist , have already created fine Lego renderings of that wonderful flying truck. So I decided to have a go at a minifig-scale model of the RAF’s other large chopper, which I have not yet seen created in Lego: the (largely) home-grown AgustaWestland AW101 Merlin HC3.