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Hello Fellow Modelers When I was in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm, I saw this fascinating machine and, to keep the memory alive, I decided to build one in my favorite scale. The only reasonable choice was the pricey Whirlybird model, offering a resin kit with all necessary features of the iconic CSAR Jolly Green Giant (The Revell kit is completely wrong). I have to be honest: Even after opening the box, which seems to provide an accurate rendition of the CH-3 with some nice PE parts, the Whirlybird kit is far from being easy to construct and is finally a true monstruous challenge! It is my first tentative in the helicopter world, obviously I didn't chose the easy way by starting with an artisanal full resin kit. It took me ages to modify, remove, scratch, add and create parts to finally obtain a far from "top of the range" result. From the tip of the AAR probe to the tail rotor, I almost change everything! I will not bother you with the (very) long list of what I did. The whole cargo bay (given completely empty!) and cockpit were redone, the hull shape corrected, rotor head, rotor blades, etc... The only positive point is that Whirlybird offers the option to represent all the five machines used during "desert Storm" in a nice decal sheet. I chose to build the only MH-3E equipped with flares boxes mounts (but the boxes were never used), with a modified color scheme post-DS. The https://www.dstorm.eu/pages/en/usa/mh-3e.html website provides some nice pictures. All MH-3E belong to the 71st SOS (AFRES), Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona based at Ras al Mishab, Saudi Arabia. Here are the photos: The real bird: removed read the pinned post in chat Mine: ...and as usual, a little dio to put the machine in situation: the truck is a USAF M35, Academy modified and the ladder is scratch built. As a conclusion, I will not recommend this kit if you look for easy modeling. Strange and sad that its "father" the SH-3 has been nicely covered by some model manufacturers like Cyberhobby.com but not the iconic Jolly Green Giant... Critics most welcome and thank you for looking! -
The Short SB5 was built to test the highly swept wing layout for the EE Lightning and flew with three different wing and two different tail configurations. I built the 69 degree sweep version last year; Now it's time to build the other two versions to complete the set and as the kit is fairly simple and they are both in the same colour scheme, I thought it made sense to do a double build. Two Whirlybirds kits and an original Project-X conversion that supplies the different wings and high-set tailplane. The resin parts simplify the build by dealing with the cockpit, intake and jetpipe. The decals are the horrible Clear-Fix type that don't work very well and always crack after application so I'll be replacing them using home printed ones using the artwork I drew for my previous build. Colour scheme will be silver upper and black lower as it is now preserved at Cosford. Steve
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Not a fresh news but just discovered here: http://www.whirlybirdmodels.com/docs/pricelist.pdf Whirlybird Models ha(s-d?) a 1/48th Sikorsky S-52-3/HO5S-1/HO5S-1G injection kit project. About the S-52: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-52 V.P. -
Whirlybird Models is to release at the SMW 2018 a 1/72nd Supermarine 545 kit - ref. Source: https://www.facebook.com/whirlybirdmodels/photos/a.520880691670428/520895088335655/?type=3&theater V.P.
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