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When I start perusing the contents of the stash shelf while working on a kit I know I am either getting bored or burnt out with it and should set it aside for a bit and perhaps start on yet another one. I have several on the go now and am okay with that as I have come to realize over the past couple of years that it is almost de rigueur to have more than one kit a building at any one time. So, on the shelf I espy an Airfix SH-2F (one of two) that I bought last year after Rodders started his WIP of the kit but was unable to proceed because of some problem which I can't remember now. I selected one of the kits at random and when I opened it I discovered, to my surprise, that it had been vandalized. The complete interior was missing, including the crew. Aliens perhaps? The Kit was an eBay purchase and although I would normally check an eBay kit out very thoroughly, I must have just put this one aside without doing so. So, put it aside and start the other one which I know to be complete or, using the parts as patterns, have a go at replacing the missing interior with scratch built parts. I chose the latter option and so far the office furniture looks okay, more or less, so I am proceeding with the duff kit and will attempt to convert it to a -2G. Not that much to do, just plunge mould a new transmission hump and the turbine pods and add a few exterior bits (they had quite a lot of these depending, it seems, on which country flew them). First photo shows an equipment rack, sonobuoy cabinet and the senso's seat. Not sure about the sonobuoy cabinet as I have yet to find an interior shot of a -2G with one. Or, for that matter, a -2F. Not much can be seen in back after closing it up. I've cut off the -2F turbines and plunged the hump which is moved forward a little. Okay fit after lots of dry fitting and trimming. A couple of Kittyhawk -2G builds helped me with sorting out the hump and turbine location. Must have looked at a couple of hundred -2G photos also. Thanks for looking. Cheers Dennis (Sorry, Photobucket can be really irritating at times.)
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