Westlandaircraftenthusiast Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 I recently did my last WIP post on these, so its time for a final post for these. Both Gazelles are the Airfix offering, one from the 80s and the other from the 90s/00s. The first one i started (back in March) got to the end of the painting stage and it all went a bit wrong when i found out i had completely messed up the canopy. It took me a fair few months to know what i will do with it. I decided to do it in the scheme of XX453 used by Qinetiq in a fictional diorama with it in storage, getting brown paper getting applied to the glass. (The wonky antenna has since been fixed) The later kit had decals for a pair of HT.2s, but had the GOA on the top section of the canopy. Due to this of course i had to look at AH.1s and found a very nice desert scheme. This one is XZ347 used by the AAC. This one also has a base but it is very quick, and one day i will make one it deserves. 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abandoned Project Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Very nice whirlybirds there. I really like the storage diorama. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head in the clouds. Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Very nice work on what are two small and delicate kits. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Very nice indeed,...... it is hard to get the Airfix Gazelle to look so nice. Cheers Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dashellis Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Cracking pair, love Gazelles both very nice especially like the maintenance diorama, great job with very fiddly kits, I've always broken bits Darren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAT69 Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Your fix of the messed up canopy is creative and recreates a scene seldom seen in modeling. Very well done! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westlandaircraftenthusiast Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 Cheers guys, The diorama wasn't actually my idea to start with, i was talking to someone that worked on gazelles at the ETPS and he gave me that idea.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natter Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Errr... Really? They're the 1/72 Airfix offerings? Wow. They're really good, with quite a bit of scratch work by the looks of it. How did you keep them from being tail-sitters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westlandaircraftenthusiast Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Natter said: Errr... Really? They're the 1/72 Airfix offerings? Wow. They're really good, with quite a bit of scratch work by the looks of it. How did you keep them from being tail-sitters? Cheers, and yes, a bit of messy scratch building for both. Well for one i kinda cheated. The one in storage has a little piece of styrene glued to the wall which the tail sits on to stay up, the other i just put in a bit of weight behind the cabin to keep it up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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