Mario Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 (edited) Hello modellers, I´m quite happy to be back with a new project finished. This build took me nearly half a year from start to finish. Originally intended as a refurbishment project for my old 1/72 Bobkit Super Puma, it went a little out of control... Things started when I rediscovered the original decal sheet in the spares box. I bought the kit back in 1986 but wasn´t enthisiastic about the civilian version at that time. Read about the oil rig shuttles in the Aeroplane aviation magazine and thought it would look nice in bright colors on a little helopad base with a few LEDs. I started with the helicopter, sanded smooth the thick paint coat and added a lot of details to that rather simple kit. A complete interior with crew and passengers was scratchbuilt and a lot of broken parts had to be fixed. The helicopter pilots are reworked Hasegawa ground crews, the passengers are from the Revell Nato pilots set and from the Airfix astronauts. Polishing the clear parts took a great deal of time as the cabin windows couldn´t be removed anymore. The oil rig landing deck consists of a piece of styrene sheet, strenghtened with collected wooden shafts of New Years rockets. Except for the green LEDs, nothing was purchased and everything came either from the spares box or from the trash can... Fly screen for net and fences, toothpicks, needles and fingerfood sticks for the superstructure, sewing yarn, aluminium tape and stretched sprue. Even the battery case was scratchbuilt and the switches came from broken electric devices. The platform is powered by three rechargeable batteries and has three lighting modi as I wasn´t sure if i could take photos later with the floodlights on. The base was sprayed with a rattle can from a local hardware store and then shadowed by airbrush and pigments. The markings were airbrushed using templates. I´m quite happy with the result and wondering if there are aftermarket decals for the Bristow helis as it would be nice to have another one... Hope you like it Mario Edited September 26, 2019 by Mario 31 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 Wow, very convincing!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 Fantastic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abandoned Project Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 Amazing! Outstanding! Bravo! Absolutely love the helipad, it's magnificent! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harley John Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 Excellent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phone Phixer Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 Great looking diorama. Nice one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IGKent Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 12 hours ago, Phone Phixer said: Great looking diorama. Nice one. I agree too. Great job! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 Thank you very much Igor, Phone Phixer, John, Abandoned Project, RMCS and Exdraken! Your comments are highly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeejeeZ Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 Magnificent build and dio Mario!! I am a civil heli kit fanatic and can't stop admiring your pics. More Bristow decals: https://www.aviationmegastore.com/civilian-helicopters-ssm72-007-sm-models-ssm72-007-vliegtuig-bouwmodel-transfers/product/?action=prodinfo&art=104001 and ofcourse WhirlyBits has civil kits and decals, although I am not sure there's Bristow among these. I have seen BA decals. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hewy Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 Superb little scene 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booty003 Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 That is a fantastic dio Mario. Very imaginative and well done on the scratching of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario Posted September 27, 2019 Author Share Posted September 27, 2019 Thank you all for the positive feedback! 20 hours ago, GeejeeZ said: Magnificent build and dio Mario!! I am a civil heli kit fanatic and can't stop admiring your pics. More Bristow decals: https://www.aviationmegastore.com/civilian-helicopters-ssm72-007-sm-models-ssm72-007-vliegtuig-bouwmodel-transfers/product/?action=prodinfo&art=104001 and ofcourse WhirlyBits has civil kits and decals, although I am not sure there's Bristow among these. I have seen BA decals. Hello geejeeZ! Thank you very much for your kind comment and the link to the decals. Very interesting indeed! Have also seen that Printscale offers a sheet with nice civil markings options: http://www.printscale.org/product_562.html Another option would be to simply purchase a sheet with white letters and numbers but unfortunetely have not yet found italic waterslide letters of that size. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Fabulous work on both the Puma and the landing pad. The night shots are particularly effective. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeejeeZ Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 4 hours ago, Mario said: Thank you all for the positive feedback! Hello geejeeZ! Thank you very much for your kind comment and the link to the decals. Very interesting indeed! Have also seen that Printscale offers a sheet with nice civil markings options: http://www.printscale.org/product_562.html Another option would be to simply purchase a sheet with white letters and numbers but unfortunetely have not yet found italic waterslide letters of that size. I have the Printscale decals. One word of caution with these: the outlining of the big passenger windows is a tad too small and they end up lying on top of the window instead of around it. The thing that would come closest to white italics is https://www.scalemates.com/kits/draw-decal-48s-cessna-1w-cessna-slanted-registrations-white--1076142 although I don't think the font is exactly what Bristow used, and the 1/48 letters would be too big while the 1/72 might be too small... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan P Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 Exceptional build, a work of imagination and skill. Superb work on the display. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario Posted September 28, 2019 Author Share Posted September 28, 2019 Thanks for all your positive comments! Very much appreciated! 8 hours ago, GeejeeZ said: I have the Printscale decals. One word of caution with these: the outlining of the big passenger windows is a tad too small and they end up lying on top of the window instead of around it. The thing that would come closest to white italics is https://www.scalemates.com/kits/draw-decal-48s-cessna-1w-cessna-slanted-registrations-white--1076142 although I don't think the font is exactly what Bristow used, and the 1/48 letters would be too big while the 1/72 might be too small... Have bought a Printscale sheet for the 1/72 Black Widow recently and was a little disappointed as nearly all the nose arts were oversized... Truck Line decals for the H0 enthusiasts are also a good choice in some cases. Or dry transfers. What I have done in the past was to rub dry transfers onto clear decal film and then use them as waterslide decals. Worked very well! But think in my case the best would be to wait for another Bobkit popping up somewhere. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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