About a year ago finally found my first sea king, the old fujimi box; the friend that sold me the kit added two airfix too! one (this) are the older mould of the kit and the other are the about eighteen years rebox with new parts. Recently get the the new good revell kit version (about the correct version to build this westland MK.43B version. but i'll mix the kit and the revell will be the italian SH-3D version with adequate corrections..) .
Now i can't leave the two old kits as they are.. confrontations with the two newer kits shows the main errors of these kits. Basically main errors are in the cockpit areas, included the orrible canopy
So, in this first experiments will try to correct this old kit to obtain a canopy mould to use ever for the other one.
Between the four kits i have a good number of spare parts to use as the version required.
Decals , not complete for the version , i'll print in some waymissing decals after.
Working starts, the other one is the revell as dime
heres fuselage gap. The airfix uses the same section fuselage in the cockpit area instead of the revell and fujimi that have a different shape in the top and cockpit zone
Lots of measuring, the base of canopy mould
Front engines, both are wrong but the airfix worst
removed the problem for now
To set the SH-3 version to an MK.43 some new window will be opened (the yellow other airfix spotted!)
new windows ready, the larger one will be resized after (i forget.. even exhausts was removed..)
Drop windows will be from the revell?
The norwegian sea king have a large radar radome after the engines bridge. I found one in.. the revell kit
he works (notice another cut of plastic after the rotor basement..)
The long antenna.. revell kit too .. wil be used
Probably the main blades need an heavy restiling
That's all for now..
This is the complete sea king program:
This one
the yellow airfix
the fujimi
and the revell
At the next
I try to fill the gaps