Revell Westland Wessex HAS Mk.3 & MRC S.58/SH-34 (MLD)

[flyjoe180]

Looking sharp Fernando, good looking paint work

[Fernando N]

Evening all,

Steve, thanks:thumb2: just a matter of perseverance during painting….keeping a tidy bench is simple just clean up after each session.:tongue-out3:
Jim, no problem it’s hard to keep up with everyone’s work over here too:smiling2:, thanks for the kind words.:thumb2:
Ian, thank you:thumb2:, even turned a bit worse after unmasking as some of the tape’s glue stuck to the gloss surface or lifted the gloss:sad-face:. Anyway looked like patches of matt on the gloss yellow, but after spraying the first gloss coat on I had an uniform surface.:smiling:
John, no stupid question my friend, should have pointed it out better in the post that I used the Gunze Yellow as a last resort to get a proper coat of colour.:thinking:
Vallejo Yellow works fine with an undercoat of White, just don’t be as dumb as me to use such a contrasting colour for the pre-shade.:rolling:
Thanks for the kind comment.:thumb2:
Richard, thanks for the kind words and dropping in:thumb2:. Which one do you have in 1/48th?
Joe, thanks.:thumb2:

Nothing to show today as I finished the corrections yesterday and gave her the two gloss coats this evening.
If the mojo is still up I’ll have the detail painting and decals done this weekend.
Signing off for now, have to get up early for work once again….

Fernando

[scottie3158]

Hi Fernando,
You are making a great job of a very interesting old chopper

[Fernando N]

Good evening everyone,

Scottie, thanks for the kind words.:thumb2:

Managed to complete the detail painting, decals and weathering this weekend.
Lots of decals to give an colourful look to her, although being old Revell a good amount of MicroSol and patience was needed to make them settle in nicely.:smiling4:
Sadly they're not were sharply printed, resulting in fuzzy small letters on the stencils and some patches of extra white on the roundles and Royal Navy letters....:disappointed2:
Careful correction painting took care of the extra white and here she is ready for the satin coat:
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Used AK2071 wash for the yellow and AK 2072 for the dark blue parts, I tried to keep it cleanly just enough to show the rivets and panel lines.
Sadly the white stripe decals for the wheelhubs are way too small:
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Handpainted those with the aid of masking tape, the rotors and side door were decaled and weathered too:
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Once the satin coat is on, still some things to add like antenna wires and such but she's moving to finish line for sure.
Thanks for looking in and have a great week.

Fernando

[Fernando N]

Evening all, just back from the camping.:smiling:

Firstly a correction on the previous post, I used AK-121 for the yellow as a wash the 2071 was for picking out the details on the rotor assemblies.
Sorry.....

A little to show now as bench time this week was pretty short due all the headbanging visiting a concert of Nine Inch Nails on Wednesday and going to the Jera On Air festival Friday and Saturday.
First time I went to Jera, a great punk and metal festival with great organization and a fine selection of artists:
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Good thing the organization set up all the stages in huge tents, otherwise all would have roasted away with 30 degrees and all sun.:smiling6:
Highly recommended for any punk or metal fan, not just Dutch folk, a fair share of the visitors were German Belgium and British and all signs were in English...:thumb2:

Back to moddeling, after I sprayed the satin on I felt it exaggerated the wash too much so I went back to the gloss, photo's show them in gloss too.:upside::tongue-out3:
Removed the masking and with a careful slice along the edges with a scalpel they luckily came off with out taking much of the paint with them:
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Even with the cockpit closed, there's so much glass all the work inside is pretty easy to see.:thumb2:

Thanks for looking in and have a great week.

Fernando

[stillp]

Very nice Fernando.

Pete

[papa 695]

That's looking very good Fernando

[Steve Jones]

Great progress pics mate. The decals have really made a difference. Terrific stuff:thumb2:

[Fernando N]

Good evening all from a sunny and not too hot Almere.:smiling:

Pete, Ian and Steve thanks guys.:thumb2:

Managed to finish the last steps on this one, with first replacing the pitot tube with a bit of 0.4mm micro tube.
You can see the kit part above the brass one:
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During rigging of the antenna wires I dropped her on the tail wheel resulting in it breaking at the most fragile place of the strut...
With glue repair not having any success I replaced it with 1mm brass wire:
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You can also see the antenna wires with turnbuckles here, the wire is Ushi fine size 0.003 and the buckles are Albion Alloys TB1 0.4x0.25x3mm (1/48 turnbuckles for bi-planes).
Although I could cut them to size myself, I wanted to try these out before the upcoming WW1 GB since I plan to build some bi-planes by then.:smiling:

Once the tail wheel was touched up and the antenna wires painted black using VJ 71.057, only use acrylics on the Ushi wires since the others tend to affect the stiffness resulting in saggy wires....:sad:
Also made a big snafu on the ''danger'' decals on the tail, they were placed with arrows pointing in the wrong way:upside::upside::worried:, good thing VJ varnish can be removed easily and the decals came off and were promptly placed in the correct position.:smiling4:

Here are the finished photo's for now, I've ordered one of those tents so more in the future:
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Although a bit more work than expected, due to the age of the kit design it still was a fun project.
Nice to have another colourful birdie to add to the collection.:smiling4:

Taking a little break before the next one, as I have started work on a little box thingy on rails and want to finish that one first.
More on that one later in the week.

Thanks for looking in and have a great and cool week.

Fernando

[scottie3158]

Fernando,

Great job and a superb overall finish.

[papa 695]

Fantastic work Fernando, and many thanks for joining in the GB.

[flyjoe180]

Fantastic work and result Fernando

[rtfoe]

Fernando,
Nice one this. Like to know more about the turn buckles.

Cheers,
Richard

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Fernando
This is a great build, very inspiring....thanks for showing it.
Cheers
Tim

[colin m]

Brilliant build, great work. I'm trying to inject some colour onto my shelves and think this would fit in nicely, amongst all the shade of green and grey.