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Hi all,

 

A simple question to begin with:

 

Is it possible at all to convert any existing 1/48 or 1/32 Lynx kit into the AW159 Wildcat?

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Not without an awful lot of scratch building, they may look a bit similar but they are very different.

I seem to remember Lynx7 was starting to have a go with one, but I haven't seen anything from him for years.

 

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On 6/21/2018 at 9:43 AM, Mark said:

Hi all,

 

A simple question to begin with:

 

Is it possible at all to convert any existing 1/48 or 1/32 Lynx kit into the AW159 Wildcat?

Hi Mark

Here are two photos that should give you an idea what you'd be up against.

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John

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On ‎6‎/‎21‎/‎2018 at 9:43 AM, Mark said:

Hi all,

 

A simple question to begin with:

 

Is it possible at all to convert any existing 1/48 or 1/32 Lynx kit into the AW159 Wildcat?

I think it would be a case of assembling the donor Lynx kit's main rotor blades and then inserting a new very slab sided fuselage underneath them.

 

One of a number of current Augusta/Westland/Leonardo types which are missing in model form unfortunately.  

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12 hours ago, junglierating said:

Surely Westland Helicopters Limited.....just as another division should be Selex Galileo ....all one company indeef🤣🤣

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a case of assembling the donor Lynx kit's main rotor blades and then inserting a new very slab sided fuselage underneath them.

That's far off how the Wildcat is actually built. There's a hangar at Middle Wallop where all the Lynx go to have any usable parts removed to be used in the Wildcat programme.

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On 6/29/2018 at 4:31 PM, junglierating said:

Surely Westland Helicopters Limited.....just as another division  in the group should be xxxx ....all one company indeef🤣🤣

If it has Westland in it, it IS limited.

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6 minutes ago, Robertone139 said:

If it has Westland in it, it IS limited.

I thing you miss my point....ref all one company ....i still have to clarify my former company name else people auto default to Leonardo/ WHL...which I'm not ☺

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On 6/29/2018 at 10:35 PM, Aeronut said:

That's far off how the Wildcat is actually built. There's a hangar at Middle Wallop where all the Lynx go to have any usable parts removed to be used in the Wildcat programme.

Which is where I work.

 

 

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Mark,

 

I've been fortunate enough to see a couple of these machines 'up close and personal' in the last couple of weeks and you would have a job replicating it from the Airfix kit of the HMA.8. It may look similar but it is a very different machine and would be a challenge.

 

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If it attracts some export success in the future, I dare say a kit will emerge in due course.

 

Cheers

 

Mark

 

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On ‎7‎/‎2‎/‎2018 at 12:39 PM, Dave Fleming said:

Rotors, forward part of the engine housing, windscreen and main cabin doors and some u/c components might be all you could use

Main rotor blades and head are about all you could use. The engines, windscreen, cabin doors and undercarriage are all different. 

 

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Thanks guys, that is all brilliant help! So I've as much chance of converting the Lynx to a Wildcat as England has of winning a penalty shoot-out in the World Cup!!  Oh, hang on..... 😮

 

But seriously, thank you for the time with all the replies and photographs, it is really appreciated. I'll just wait for either Airfix or Revell to come out with a proper kit now!

 

 

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