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The International Best for Modelling and Reference
November 2015 • £4.50
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SEAMEW
Building the Short Seamew
By
Tony Grand
Kit No:
0572
Scale:
1/72
Type:
Resin
Manufacturer:
Magna
he sea-mew is an aquatic bird, called
these days a seagull or more correctly
simply a gull; a graceful bird, you’ll
probably agree. The Short S.6B Seamew on
the other hand, has been described as a
‘camel amongst racehorses’ (Jim
Winchester,
The World’s Worst Aircraft).
James Hamilton-Paterson in
Empire of the
Clouds
says: ‘It was an absurd looking
aircraft with its tall, narrow fuselage and
weirdly hunched cockpit, perched on top,
seemingly within inches of the propeller’.
Uninformed judgements, is my opinion.
Where were the racehorses, Mr Winchester?
And good read though Mr Hamilton-
Paterson’s polemic is, I would suggest that
the Seamew had a compact yet roomy
fuselage, the correct shape to take
torpedoes and depth charges in a sizeable
bomb bay, while the cockpit design offered
both crew good visibility, as did its
location, avoiding that bane of propeller
driven, tail dragging carrier aircraft, the
long nose. You can’t blame a machine for
not having the nimble lines of a Mirage.
It was designed in 1951 by David Keith-
Lucas of Shorts, in response to Admiralty
Specification M.123D, as a lightweight
antisubmarine platform to replace the Fleet
Air Arm’s Grumman Avenger AS 4, in
service with the Royal Naval Volunteer
Reserve. This specification for an aircraft
suitable for mass production was in
response to the alarming increase in
capability of Soviet submarine forces
following World War II. It first flew on 23rd
August 1953 and while designed to a naval
specification was also intended for land
based use by the RAF.
The FAA type, the AS Mk 1, was intended
to be a robust and simple antisubmarine
aircraft for use on small carriers, with a
crew of two, good range and capable of
carrying and operating the latest radars. It
had a single Mamba ASM.6 turboprop and
the tailwheel undercarriage was fixed. It
was a tail dragger to allow the fitting of the
radome well forward without the radar’s
forward view being impaired.
The Seamew AS Mk 1, the subject of my
build, had arrester and catapult hooks and
powered wing folding and could carry up
to 1,100lb of munitions. An order was
placed in February 1955 for sixty aircraft,
split evenly between the FAA and RAF.
Carrier trials on
HMS Bulwark
were
completed in July and December 1955,
followed by naval service flight trials with
700 Naval Air Squadron in November 1956,
which included catapult trials and around
200 take-offs and landings on
HMS Warrior.
The RAF lost interest after four Mk 2s were
built with three of them converted to AS
Mk 1 standard. The fourth was flown by S/L
W. Wally J. Runciman, a test pilot for Shorts,
for a series of sales tours in 1956 to Italy,
Yugoslavia and West Germany. Meanwhile
the FAA decided that the RNVR Avengers
would be replaced by Seamews, but only
four had been taken on charge by the time
the RNVR squadrons were disbanded in
March 1957 in keeping with the 1957
Defence White Paper, before any Seamews
were allocated to them. Seven aircraft
eventually delivered to the FAA were
scrapped, the programme ending in 1957.
Wally Runciman died sadly in the crash
T
The fuselage halves are typical of one of Magna’s earlier kits
A rough and ready interior is provided that with a little help
will pass muster once safely shut inside
Note the hatching on kit radome demonstrating that the line
with the lower fuselage is inaccurate
Fuselage after application of styrene strip and green stuff. The
hatching shows areas that have been added
Extraneous slot in fuselage and brass tube fitted to take wings.
At this point the whole thing looks like it will never amount to
a finished aircraft – but only believe and thou shalt see...
Wings and horizontal tail fitted
4
W W W.
S C A L E
A I R C R A F T
M O D E L L I N G
. CO. U K
SEAMEW
Leg improved by wrapping with aluminium shim
Primed with undercarriage, canopy and hook fitted, the
model is beginning to show promise
Flap actuators fitted
of Seamew XE175 at a display. He had
flown the Seamew on its maiden flight in
1953, at Farborough in 1953, 1954 and
1955, had demonstrated it around Europe,
had more hours on the Seamew than any
other pilot and had 10,000 hours in his
logbook on some fifty aircraft types. The
subsequent investigation found pilot error,
though material failure has been
conjectured. The Seamew has been alleged
to have had vicious flying characteristics,
but I have found no elaboration on this.
Indeed, Runciman himself, in an article in
Flight,
in January 1956 declared that it was
'simple to fly, vice free, and easy to get to
know. Service pilots should enjoy flying it’. I
rather hoped to find that Eric Brown had
flown the Seamew - that would have given
us the real gen but it does not appear
amongst the 487 basic types he did fly.
My interest in the Seamew goes back
roughly sixty years to the Christmas I
received the annual treasure, the
Observer’s
Book of Aircraft,
which showed it in the
classic format of a black and white photo, a
short text and a three view silhouette. It
clearly stuck in my mind as when
eventually Magna produced a resin kit I
purchased one for the pile. When I finally
got round to the build, I was fairly sure,
having built the Magna Avro Ashton, of the
quality of kit I would find but I was
disappointed. The one piece cockpit insert
was rather crude and the vacform canopy
left something to be desired, although at
least two copies were provided. Both were
fragile, so that cutting them out (I use
sharp nail scissors) was tricky, whilst the
stronger one had an opaque section on the
port side rather like a cataract, caused I
guess by the plastic being stretched whilst
not hot enough. So far, no problem for an
experienced modeller but where the kit
really fell short was in the cross-section of
the fuselage. Magna had moulded it as if it
were an ellipse, whereas the true section is
that of a teardrop, rather flattened on its
lower surface. I noticed it because of the
way the intersection of the radome and the
fuselage extended up the fuselage side,
whereas the dome is essentially set on the
bottom of the fuselage. The instruction
sheet by the way is very good. The
drawings of the plane are 1/72, which is
helpful.
Painting in progress: the classic Fleet Air Arm scheme is
always a chore to mask
Fuselage
OK so off we go. I did what I could with
the interior, painting the cockpit sides
black-grey rather than black for scale
effect, though you can’t see much, adding
seats and belts and some Mike Grant dials
and placards. I superglued the fuselage
halves together, clamping them well to
eliminate a twist in the rear fuselage on
both halves, made noticeable because of
the integral fin. The twist remained and I’ve
not been able to correct it, so the tailplane
is not horizontal. Ho hum.
I could now start to correct the fuselage
cross section. I superglued strips of styrene
along the lower fuselage, fairing them in
with Green Stuff and filing and sanding
them into shape. At the same time I had to
correct the nose profile, again filing,
sanding and filling. As a reference I used
the
Observer’s Book
drawings, enlarged to
1/72. Comparing them to photos on the
web they seemed as accurate, if not more
so, than other drawings online. The radome
was made more bulbous with Green Stuff.
Finished at last. The canopy seals go a long way to smartening
up the look of the completed model
Short Seamew AS.1 lands aboard HMS Bulwark during trials
15th July 1955
Seamew prototype XA209 in a natural metal finish at
Farnborough SBAC Show in September 1953
Runciman climbs into the cockpit for the first flight of the
Seamew XA209 prototype
This official shot of XA209 clearly shows the somewhat
eccentric lines of the original aircraft
NOVEMBER 2015
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VOLUME 37
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ISSUE 09
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