Geoffers - Italeri 1/72 Wessex UH.5 - Royal Navy Rescue helicopter

[Geoffers]

Nice job with the paint,looking good.

Cheers Mark :smiling4:

Excellent details & finish.

Thank you Paul :thumb2:

Geoff.

[Mini Me]

That's a real eye popper Geof.....almost need my shades for that brilliant red you have there. :thumb2:

[yak face]

Looking superb geoff , the red really makes it stand out . How was the hataka red coverage over the white ? I know some reds and yellows ( and whites ) can be very translucent and take loads of coats to get a good colour density.

[Ian M]

Thats RED! love the detail inside.

[Geoffers]

That's a real eye popper Geof.....almost need my shades for that brilliant red you have there. :thumb2:

Thanks Rick

Thats RED! love the detail inside.

Cheers Ian :smiling4:

[Geoffers]

Looking superb geoff , the red really makes it stand out . How was the hataka red coverage over the white ? I know some reds and yellows ( and whites ) can be very translucent and take loads of coats to get a good colour density.

Thanks Tony :thumb2:

It went on really well, probably 3-4 passes with the airbrush, I managed to get it done in one sitting.
I mainly use Vallejo Model Air but have got a few Hataka paints recently and I’m starting to prefer them.

Geoff.

[Guest]

It went on really well, probably 3-4 passes with the airbrush, I managed to get it done in one sitting.
I mainly use Vallejo Model Air but have got a few Hataka paints recently and I’m starting to prefer them.

Always interesting how preferences differ. I tried Hataka several times, and then decided to stop bothering with them exactly because I had to go over the same area three to five times before the paint covers even remotely well. Of course, I was spraying camouflage with them, where it’s much more annoying to have to spray the same patch more than once, than if you’ve got a nicely masked-off area to spray like you did here.

[Geoffers]

Yes I can see how that would be a problem with camo. I’ve only used it for single colour schemes so far.

I’ve got a couple of builds in the pipeline that will need camo so I’ll see how it goes :thumb2:

Geoff.

[adt70hk]

Ok.... So I'm soooooo late it's almost last orders before locking up time but that is very good indeed.

Very good!! Love the little details you added!! Top notch work.

ATB.

Andrew

[Geoffers]

Ok.... So I'm soooooo late it's almost last orders before locking up time but that is very good indeed.

Very good!! Love the little details you added!! Top notch work.

ATB.

Andrew

Cheers Andrew :thumb2:

Don’t worry about being late, just hang around for the after hours lock in :tears-of-joy:

Geoff.

[Geoffers]

Hello chaps,

Time for another update.

Well after giving it a good all over gloss coat using Alclad Aqua Gloss I started to apply the decals.

I’ve used some from the original kit sheet and the Modeldecal sheet I had sourced.

I’ve also used some Xtradecal letters/numbers as neither of the other sets had all the appropriate markings.




Despite trying various decal solutions both the original decals and the Modeldecal ones were very reluctant to settle.
The Italeri decals seem very flat and prone to silvering where as the Modeldecal ones seem reluctant to settle, maybe due to there age?
I have got them as good as I can so hopefully they will be better under a coat of varnish.

The rotor blades have also been sorted. I decided to paint the high vis markings on the tail rotor rather than use the supplied decals.

I’m just waiting on the Xtradecal large number/ letter decal sheet to arrive before finishing the decals off.

Not too much more to do, thanks for looking.

Geoff.

[Mini Me]

Very nice...almost there :thumb2:

[Guest]

That looks very busy with all those markings on.

[Geoffers]

Very nice...almost there :thumb2:

Cheers Rick :smiling4:

That looks very busy with all those markings on.

Funnily enough I was looking at it earlier Jakko and thought the same thing :surprised:

Geoff.

[outrunner]

Looking the part now.

Andy.