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Westland Wessex HAS MK1 Italeri 1/72


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Good morning mates,

Due to the situation caused by Covid19, as dictated by Italian Government I’m working part time from home with more time for modelling, thus I could finish a build I had started  months ago as part of a bigger project involving the five types on board Ark Royal during her last deployment.

At the moment, I’ve built : a Buccaneer S2 froma Matchbox kit and a Gannet AEW by Sword. My plans include also a Phantom and Sea King.

 

Here you can find the Wip for the project.

I started from this kit, which resulted less accurate than older kits like Matchbox and Frog.I added the Eduard PE parts by Eduard and some other detail from scratch.

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Cockpit:

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Loading bay interior: port

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Starboard

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The PE grids: a very realistic addition

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The nose grid made from scratch starting from an Eduard PE grid sheet.

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Tail rotor: the four blades had to be turned and their painting was real fun!

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The finished model.

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And to finish a few pictures with the other aircraft part of this project.

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Here you can find the topic of the Gannet , part of the same project.

 

Thanks for watching!

Ciao

Massimo

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Impressive job, Massimo! :clap: :worthy:

 

Helicopters aren't my thing, but I reckon this is an excellent model, very realistic - and even more outstanding, given the scale.

Plus, with all the advice you got along the build from the experts here on BM, I also know it's accurate! Great job!

 

Ciao e tieni duro!

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Beautiful end result there! The correction work to the nose and rear fuselage have really paid dividends and vastly improve the look of the completed model.

 

Mark.

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Superb job on the Wessex - I was going to ask if you had reshaped the nose (which looks like it has melted in the Italeri kit!) and can see from the WIP that you did and it looks excellent.

 

Pat

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Thank you all for the nice comments about the Wessie and for the wishes to me and my family!

It's a hard time here in Italy and allover the World and I'd like to wish good health to all of you!

We're much closer to each other now than ever! Let's hope things will get better soon and, in the meantime, let's dedicate some time to our Hobby!

 

For who may be interested in my Buccaneer and Gannet,  these are  the links to its RFI topics.

Stay safe!

Massimo

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