Frog Westland Wessex 1/72

[AdrianMF]

Hello All,

I've been working on a Frog Westland Wessex (build thread here), and here it is:

This represents XM328, a pre-production HAS.1, during the period of its trials with the Royal Navy. It was later converted to HAS.3 standard and it has been restored by the Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare.










Thanks for looking,
Adrian

[rio]

That's a lovely build.

Rio

[Dads203]

Very nice

[tonyot]

Very nice Adrian,.....that is the nicest Frog Wessex that I have ever seen,

Cheers

Tony

[stevehnz]

Beautifully done Adrian & inspirational. I still have a couple of those kits tucked away.

Steve.

[woody37]

Wow, you wrapped that up quick, and totally agree with Tony's comment, fabulous job bringing this old kit up to date

[cngaero]

That's lovely Adrian, you've done the old Frog kit proud. It's great to see what can be achieved with these lovely old kits.

[TheBaron]

Splendid work on that old kit Adrian. Enjoyed watching that come together no end. Bravo!

Tony

[Martian]

That has turned out really well but then we would not expect anything less from one of your builds!

Martin

[polo1112]

Superb Wessex !!!

[Rodders154]

nice to have the old frog wessex being built you have done a super job

Rodders

[Nigel Heath]

Exceptionally good.

[Pete in Lincs]

From an ugly duckling....

Very nice indeed.

[Meatbox8]

That looks terrific, especially considering the age of this kit. Good news for me as I really want an HAS.1 to go complete my RN line up.

[keefr22]

That scrubbed up really well, cracking job!!

Keith

[Mountain goat]

Excellent job..!

Jay

[perdu]

Lovely work on my favourite Wessex kit

I enjoyed that build a lot

[Blitz23]

Splendid build.

[Tomoshenko]

Brilliant stuff mate, love the extra details and cockpit makeover. Worth the money spent on the posh teabags.

[stevej60]

That's a wonderful build of a real oldie Adrian you're really carving a niche here for bringing these often overlooked kits right up to modern

standards,great stuff!

[BigReg]

That's very nice Adrian, when I go to the next model club meeting at Weston Super Mare I'll go and look at the original.

Great work on that very old kit.

David

[AdrianMF]

Thanks for all the positive comments - there's a lot of love for Wessexes out there!

It may be old but it's a great kit. Frog kits vary from the sublime (e.g. this one) to the agricultural (e.g. DH Hornet). It's crisply moulded, has good shapes, fits together well and provides good detail, especially on the rotor heads. The only things that really, really need doing to it are to replace the lenticular sliding windows, add a couple of bits of strip around the rotor and add an instrument binnacle.

If you want to do one, bear in mind it represents a very early HAS.1 with the small, square windows, with no aerials or winch. So if you want to do a "mainstream" HAS.1 the window apertures need to be enlarged and there are some more bits to add.

Regards,

Adrian

Edited August 2, 2016 by AdrianMF

[vh-bob]

A good clean build of an older kit. I still remember the Frog kits of this period fondly, previously un kitted types and a little later must have been among the first to offer decent decals (Transfers) and a choice of two different markings options.

Well done Adrian. Trev

[phildagreek]

Nice build, looks good in Pusser's blue!

[Soulcharger]

Hello All,

I've been working on a Frog Westland Wessex (build thread here), and here it is:

This represents XM328, a pre-production HAS.1, during the period of its trials with the Royal Navy. It was later converted to HAS.3 standard and it has been restored by the Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare.

Thanks for looking,

Adrian

Vey well done, great finish, always loved the model, so way ahead of its time.