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I don’t think that Revell will release an A & A kit. But if you’re interested: https://www.drawdecal.com/product/alfred-wenger-institute-polar-56-bt-67s/
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Not a big issue at all but I hope the hoist hook will be refined. -
As far as I remember the Esci kit has shape issues. The Minicraft kit is more correct.
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At the Euro Model Expo an Eduard employee told me that they are principally willing to re-release basically any set if there are enough people asking for it. So we have to collect the number of people and the number of their required sets and send an inquiry to Eduard. I also have some other sets I‘m interested to obtain again.
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Think I have the second issue boxing in my stash somewhere. I also hope that they will rework the clear parts. As far as I remember the lower front canopy is split in the fuselage centerline which the original does not have.
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1/72 - Westland Wasp HAS.1 by LF Models - released
troschi replied to Homebee's topic in The Rumourmonger
More and more often, for decades neglected subjects will appear from multiple producers at the same time 🫣 Same with Mi-8/17 in 48 scale. -
We already discussed that earlier. Depends on era and aircraft. What instantly comes to my mind are the missing search light on the nose, on the fuselage sides and the rear observer seats in the cabin. I believe that there is more to do.
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I suppose that Airfix will come up with a HAR.3 and boxing one day but … - HAR. 3/ Mk.43/ Mk.48 rear cabin observer’s seats - Mk. 41 rear observers seats (different cushion than those above) - life raft and SAR gear (slings, hooks, lines) - medical equipment - stokes litter - rescue basket etc. Airfix HU.5 SAR version only offers seats and the nav/plotters station and nothing more
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New variant released. German ADAC „Christoph 1“ from Munich, D-HYAH Swiss Rega, HB-ZQN Contains new sprue for Bucher aeromedical interior (only suitable for ADAC) Snow skids and floats included. Loads of parts for the spares box. Inbox review here: https://www.modellversium.de/kit/artikel.php?id=13900
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Yes, they released the W-3 Sokol helicopter in different boxings in 1/48 and 1/72 scale. I can only speak of the 1/72 releases and I like it. But one could argue if it’s over engineered for a 1/72 scale helicopter.
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I do not own the kit yet but from what I see I would clearly say “basically yes”. But you will have to invest some own effort for some lumps and bumps (like nose search light) and antennae. The interior of a HAR.3 is not covered IHMO but you can source some of the existing parts so that you only have to add rear seats (included ASW operator seats are different), stretcher, med/sar equipment. But the latter has also to be done for a HU.5 anyway. All above always depends on the time frame of the aircraft you want to represent. I also strongly consider Airfix to release a HAR.3 boxing in the future.
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There are a lot of differences. Airframes and variant development changed a lot during service life on either side and Westland went into its own direction leaving only the basic design concept of the Sea King to be of Sikorsky origin - basically spoken. I tend to disagree. The focus markets of Airfix are certailnly the home country and mainland Europe and there were or still are more Westland Sea Kings present than Sikorsky ones. Apart from that, the research subjects are available at front door. Why should they study a Sikorsky one? From what I see from the spues is that a Sikorsky Sea King is not possible to make from the tooling and there is no reason to believe that this is even considered to be done in the future. Everything else would have been resulted in a different parts layout.
