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Westland Wessex HC.2 of 2FTS


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Finished this one today.

Italeri 1/72 Westland Wessex HC.2 using the Heritage Aviation Wessex HC.2 conversion and a whole load of scratchbuilding.

Painted with Xtracrylix, Tamiya and Humbrol acrylics and decals cobbled together from Xtradecal and Modeldecal.

Built as Westland Wessex HC.2 of 2sqn, 2 Flying Training School RAF Shawbury, 1991.

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Enjoy

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13 minutes ago, scottyphbeta said:

Excellent build. 

What did you do to get the correct Windows?

Cheers guys.

 

I used the H-34D Seahorse kit with the Heritage Aviation conversion set which gives you the correct windows.

It does require a whole load of scratchbuilding to add the detail like pipework, vents, cable ducts, correcting tail shape, altering tail rotors and aerial fit.

 

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Fantastic job.

 

That Italeri kit really is the gift that keeps on giving though. I've dealt with all sorts of nonsense on the one I'm doing at the moment, but the tail is a new one. Mind if I ask what's wrong with it?  🙂

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The trailing edge of the tail boom isn't straight like the kit.

Here are some of the build photos.

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Incidentally, I have changed the cockpit steps around since these photos were taken as I realized I got them the wrong way round.

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That front end in the different colour is interesting, is it an aftermarket part? I had glued mine together per the kit when someone pointed out the ski-jump nose (I hadn't even noticed it, but couldn't NOT see it once it was pointed out!) I pulled the nose off and went at it with a dremel and files to shorten it to something more resembling the real thing.

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18 minutes ago, TonyOD said:

That front end in the different colour is interesting, is it an aftermarket part? I had glued mine together per the kit when someone pointed out the ski-jump nose (I hadn't even noticed it, but couldn't NOT see it once it was pointed out!) I pulled the nose off and went at it with a dremel and files to shorten it to something more resembling the real thing.

The front is the Heritage Aviation resin nose.

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Oh I do like that,...... I`ve flown in a 2 FTS Wessex too as well as working with them on a deployment to Farnborough for a couple of weeks in the 80`s!

 

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Cheers,

        Tony

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51 minutes ago, tonyot said:

Oh I do like that,...... I`ve flown in a 2 FTS Wessex too as well as working with them on a deployment to Farnborough for a couple of weeks in the 80`s!

 

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Cheers,

        Tony

Cheers guys.

 

XR505 was also sold to the Uruguayan Navy and was actually the last operational Military Westland Wessex anywhere in the world.

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2 minutes ago, falcon said:

Cheers guys.

 

XR505 was also sold to the Uruguayan Navy and was actually the last operational Military Westland Wessex anywhere in the world.

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Cheers Chris,..... well I didn`t know that,..... thanks very much! 

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