Revell 1/32 Westland Lynx HAS.3 'Black Cat'

[SJLR_1]

Update 6

More progress... as mention above one of my paints has a arrived, so I got straight into the cabin floor. Sorry about the lack of progress shots, as I was excited at finally doing the floor and being able to finish cockpit/cabin.

Anyway, here are some shots of it after some floor washes.

(you can see some of my work is a bit messy, but you will hardly notice it in the completed model... )

I also progressed with the seats. I imitated the sheep's skin seat covers with some filler, which I let dry till it was tacky then messed it up a bit.

After that I progressed with painting. These still need a lot of touch up work still!!

Tail boom and rotor was completed, rotor is masked.

Started work on the mesh intake covers:

Wheels worked on a little

Here I painted the doors with a base coat... I was originally going to use the same colour as the body of the chopper, but it looks a bit dark... guess I will have to do some mixing!

Here is the nose wheel leg, with a hose/wire made out of wire.. saw this in pictures so I replicated it... similar work to be done on the main wheel legs.

That's all for now.... fingers crossed my other paints arrive soon.. latest delivery date was 18th august, so it's cutting it a bit fine... still haven't heard from Revell either... probably will contact them soon.

[SJLR_1]

Update 7

Hello all. I know it's been a long time coming, but I have finally got around to making another update.

I have stuck the fuselage together, which is a little fiddly but I managed it.

And also put the tail boom on, which makes this beast really long!

Had a bit of trouble dry-fitting the intake covers, as the covers don't fit properly.... hmm.

So I looked at the 'parts not used' and found this:

The cover fitted perfectly so I glued the parts on. The instructs don't mention to put these parts on, so watch out..

Also, guess what arrived in the mail?

Now I can mask this up and continue on the Lynx!

I'm going to experiment with tamiya clear blue on the cracked windscreen, which is the perfect testing template for the blue tinting!!

Thanks for looking.

[Martian]

Good to hear that your part has arrived and that you can crack on with this build.

Martin

[F4u]

At last you have the new clear part ! it can now progress forward, I used Tamiya clear blue on mine and I painted it on the inside it was a bit daunting at the time but it turned out OK mine is in RFI.

Guy

[Francis Macnaughton]

I loved both this build and the one by F4u in the Endurance scheme but am hoping to do my one as an operational RN frigate or destroyer ship's flight instead. However, there don't seem to be any alternative RN decal sheets to date - does anyone know of any plans for some?

[F4u]

I tried searching for an alternative set of decals but no joy, you have other options in 1/48 but nothing for 1/32.

I don't know of any being produced either sorry.

Guy

[Francis Macnaughton]

Thanks Guy,

That confirms my suspicions that it might be best to start looking through my photo collection to see if I have a decent set of shots of one of the Ship's Flight aircraft for the ships I served in and see about getting a set made up. Alacrity in the late 80s is probably my best bet

Francis

[F4u]

Thanks Guy,

That confirms my suspicions that it might be best to start looking through my photo collection to see if I have a decent set of shots of one of the Ship's Flight aircraft for the ships I served in and see about getting a set made up. Alacrity in the late 80s is probably my best bet

Francis

If you can get a good photo Paul at Parker Decals might be of help he is in the vendors section.

Guy

Edited September 10, 2016 by F4u

[Francis Macnaughton]

If you can get a good photo Paul at Parker Decals might be of help

Thanks again Guy,

I have started looking at what the best option is, given what is provided in the kit. At the moment I am inclined to go with HMS Gloucester XZ720 as at FAA Museum ( so photos not a problem) but presumably would need to change from the current kit rotor blades and now checking what other changes are needed.