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My first entry to this group build is the Westland Dragonfly HR3 from Whirlybird kits. The Dragonfly was a licence built Sikorsky R/H5 and was used by the FAA and RAF from the early 1950's for about ten years. The Navy machines were used as communication aircraft and for plane guard duties on carriers and wore a variety of colour schemes which are catered for by the kit. The kit itself is a combination of the vacform fuselage parts from the old Britavia kit combined with new resin and etched parts, these looking to be of a high standard and well cast or etched. Very full instructions are given with some nice photos and drawings of the real thing. some of the undercarriage and rotor parts are cast in a hard resin , which a good idea. The vacform fuselage appears to use a sheet styrene rather than acetate as it is very rigid and a little brittle and responds to adhesives like Tamiya Extra thin, which may make life a little easier. Once the fuselage halves are cut out and sanded down that is the vacform bit dealt with apart from removing some of the intake detail to replace them with much better resin pieces. Here are some pics of the box and what is inside it. I have cut the fuselage halves out from the sheet and rubbed them down. the material is quite hard, but behaves like styrene or Perspex and is very clear, Looking forward to building this.- 25 replies
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