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I started this one back in August 2018 and it kept my attention for a whole month! I have Wolfpak decals (Sheet 72-024 Alaskan Air Command) for it for a machine based in Alaska in 1969. The Wolfpak instructions give you a lot of hints on how to spruce up this very basic kit. I added some detail to the cockpit The Wolfpak guide suggested shimming the sponsons to get the level Some clamping to get the fuselage together I also added the card to the top of the rotor housing which was missing from the kit. That is how the kit sat from September 2018 until yesterday. So in the last two days I have assembled the main rotor and replaced the rotor mast for the kit part that went MIA in its shuffle around the modelling room. More great hints from the decal guide suggested robbing parts from a Fujimi SH-3 to spruce it up. I have a couple of the Fujimi SH-3s but don't want to part them out, so I decided to scratch build the engine FOD guard using a Fujimi example for reference. and a test fit with most parts Then I remembered I had a box with 3 Airfix Sea Kings part started (which I might get on and finish as well). One was a Christmas tree kit so I used parts form it for the HH-3E. So I added the pitot probes, hoist and curved VHF Loop antennas to the HH-3E, can you spot them? I have also now drilled out the landing lights ready for a spot of silver paint and a drop of clear cement when the time comes. I also sanded down the rivets that cover the kit since a lot were obliterated when correcting seems.-
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Hi, I have diorama of the same name in the RFI forum, but always knew that it wasn't perfect. There were things that I didn't like about it: things that I wasn't happy about and a couple of errors which were pointed out to me by BM members. These needed rectifying. I joined BM when the diorama was almost finished and had no idea about WIPs and RFIs and so erroneously posted the unfinished diorama and the finished Tiger 1 (mid)in the Armour RFI section. Clearly I should have posted the Tiger, but not necessarily the diorama. Whilst the completed diorama and tank ARE available to view in the correct forums, there is no WIP for either. However, now that the diorama is going to be corrected, I can at least post a few pics of the 'diorama upgrade' and a couple of pics from earlier in its history. So, to start off with, here's the earliest photo I have left of the diorama. The Charcuterie sign was made using transfers and whilst the moss looked great as ground cover, they obviously dried up and shrank. In the photos above you will see that I have only partly constructed one building, all made from plasticard, coffee stirring sticks and transparent plastic from margarine tubs for the glass. At this stage I had 'gambled' on using moss for foliage; successful for some of the 'undergrowth' but not for the tree. The tree's foliage crumbled to bits. In the photo below you will see my start on the detailing of the groundwork. I had already made a cobbled surface, simply scribing into the first pour of Polyfilla before it set. But then I added wreckage from the damaged building. Roof tiles were made from blue plasticard, glass from margarine lids, and rafters from split bamboo, matchsticks and coffee stirring sticks and bricks from thick plasticard. All of these were glued in place with CA, individually. Curtains were made from J-Cloth. In the foreground you can see a 'paved' section. This was eventually finalised with an embossed sheet of 'cobbled street' from a model railway shop. In the photo below you can see that I added 'creepers' to the walls of the buildings using that green fibre stuff you can get from Woodland Scenics, plus individually placed 'ivy' leaves made from the 'seed dividers' from a Silver Birch tree's catkins. You'll also notice the handwritten Bouquineste (2nd hand book shop) sign on the building on the right and the wreckage in the 1st floor of the one on the left.
