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The Fairey UltraLight Helicopter was designed to meet an Air Ministry specification in 1954 for a small helicopter for battlefield and possible shipborne use and for training. Westland also produced a design that was never built. Six were ordered and five were apparently built, two were finished as private ventures after government support was withdrawn in 1956 and remarkably both survive in museums. These two machines had new cockpit shapes and one (G-APJJ) is the subject of the kit. The AMP kit is a short run multimedia kit with very small and delicate injection moulded parts, a fret of PE with some items in the insanely tiny category, a small decal sheet and a set of masks. The masks fit reasonably well, but did not like some of the curved surfaces. The instructions give two colour schemes, but the illustrations are a little vague in places with a couple of apparent mistakes. Overall it makes up into a nice model with only a couple of errors. The tailboom as moulded is at an angle relative to the 'fuselage' and it should be more horizontal (although that could be me). Th3 exhaust for the Nimbus engine also appears to be too small in diameter. the finished model is about two inches long excluding rotor and landing skids and is very delicate. The Work In Progress is here: this last picture shows the helicopter posed against a contemporary fighter of the period, in this case it is the Revell Hunter F.6 Thanks for looking and as the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation would say, 'share and enjoy' Martin 'I've just worked out that if I put my left arm in my right ear I can electrocute myself, permanently, - Marvin the Paranoid Android
