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OzH 1/48 Airfix Lynx Mk.7 - IFOR - Finished 07 Feb 14


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So my choice will be something a little less challenging than the others so far.

I’m going for a 1/48 Airfix Lynx Mk.7 that I would have cabbied around in during my time in Bosnia 95/96, in Army Air Corps, IFOR schema

This will be OOB with some help from Eduard Big Ed etch set

Box top

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Help...

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Contents of the Big Ed set

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And some useful bits I've found in the stash

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The Montex Mask set gives you both Army and Navy Lynx in one pack (bargin!)

The grey stips below this is a set of rotor blade masks I came across on ebay, not sure who makes them..

And the brass is from someone here on Britmodeller, sorry, I can't find the post or the email from you, but let me know and I'll credit you here...

Plan in to make a call between the Eduard and the after market brass, once I get cracking...

Give me an hour and I'll be cutting plastic on this one!!

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Coming up to 48 hours in so here's some progress..

Some work on the cab, Airfix and Eduard

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Then started on the seats

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Then, you know you have that feeling that something isn't right? Well I had that thought about the seats, should they be armoured for an IFOR cab?

A quick check with Lynx7 (thanks for the quick response mate) and my fears were confirmed.. So, here's the armoured seats so far, the others will have to wait for a later project..!

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Till next time...

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Wish I had more time to spend on this build, but that’s not to be..

What time I have had has been put to good use though

Here she was on Friday

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And what she looks like now

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Instrument panel is a combination of Eduard and the C-Lab depending on what I thought looked best

Happy with the way the seats have come out!

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Managed a bit more work on the Lynx this week

Since my last post, I had it pointed out that the sand filters were not fitted to the IFOR Lynx (Thanks Tony), so had to chop them out and use the normal intakes/filters

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Next up was some detail work on the inside of the cockpit glazing, blue tint, frame painting (with the help of the Montex masks), overhead console (eduard) and a representation of the lights at the rear of the cab.

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Dry fit to the fuselage

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The inside of the doors completed with some help from eduard and Montex

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And finally for this week, the starboard TOW assembly. I have it in good authority that the IFOR birds only had the starboard fitted and only the outer tubes loaded

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Taking a break for a week, family skiing, more when I get back...

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