Westland Wessex HC2 ish
Discussion
My Wessex is coming along slowly and I have just splashed a first coat of Extracolour Lichen Green on it to bring all the different colours together
before
after
the target "look"
Time to organise the decals now
Oh yes and to post a parcel to a friend (RF, tomorrow or Friday depending on the chance to get to the P O
)
before
after
the target "look"
Time to organise the decals now
Oh yes and to post a parcel to a friend (RF, tomorrow or Friday depending on the chance to get to the P O
)Matchbox Eric, but the nose cross section is far too "square", much filing and scraping to get the right look on the nose section and that leaves the air filter casing looking massively oversized and in need of reduction of the girth at the inlet opening
Milliput is your friend if you want accuracy, but to be honest the Italeri nose is similarly suspect from pictures I have seen. Only Frog ever got the nose shape right, the pity of which is that some other aspects with the Frog kit are a tad cruder than the M'box and Italeri ones.
A great model could result in using a mixture of the models
but not from me I think…
Milliput is your friend if you want accuracy, but to be honest the Italeri nose is similarly suspect from pictures I have seen. Only Frog ever got the nose shape right, the pity of which is that some other aspects with the Frog kit are a tad cruder than the M'box and Italeri ones.
A great model could result in using a mixture of the models
but not from me I think…
More of the painting done, experimentally speaking ( I may just strip the lot and restart the way I feel tonight)
I have added the NATO Green (looks bloomin' brown to me) to the Lichen Green with Mr Paasche's baby.
Not at all convinced by the demarcation lines, any comments welcomed. Seriously considering the double action topfiller at forty quid (no, cant afford the £160/170 super one in the Expo catalogue from Mikes Models) if it will mean a slightly less obtrusive overspray
Still, looks quite like the Cosford "baby" on the sheet shown behind it
I had considered doing a W.I.P for Britmodeller, shall I bother? I'm not sure if it would help anyone with their own Wessex some day.
(I have to admit I am rather opinionated about the value of Matchbox's moulding and they aren't able to shout back nowadays)
I have added the NATO Green (looks bloomin' brown to me) to the Lichen Green with Mr Paasche's baby.
Not at all convinced by the demarcation lines, any comments welcomed. Seriously considering the double action topfiller at forty quid (no, cant afford the £160/170 super one in the Expo catalogue from Mikes Models) if it will mean a slightly less obtrusive overspray
Still, looks quite like the Cosford "baby" on the sheet shown behind it
I had considered doing a W.I.P for Britmodeller, shall I bother? I'm not sure if it would help anyone with their own Wessex some day.
(I have to admit I am rather opinionated about the value of Matchbox's moulding and they aren't able to shout back nowadays)
A Scotsman said:
A pal of mine came up with the idea of putting those rings around the exhausts because he had to ditch a Wessex once and the flotation bag on one side burst after contacting the pipe.
Amazingly simple good ideaI hope he got some recognition, even if only to have the rings named "A Scotsman's mate's rings"
Some more work today, now the Extracolours have dried enough to allow handling. The shiny surface seems to be deliberate to allow good decal adhesion, then you have to matt varnish the finished job to flatten it.
That will be a relief 'cos shiny is scary on a Wessex.
Printed off some of my home brew decals (on cheapo paper rather than risk wasting a few quid's worth of real inkjet decal paper) that I cobbled up in Word 2007 using standard fonts that seem to match but by forcing font sizes when not at standard sizes. Adding in a couple of Paintshop Pro and 'Shop images I have arrived at the necessary images for the 'copter's individual sheet.
fun is all around
I had to force a really small font size on the "door name", kinda scary to be honest. Thought I was going to have to hand paint that for a while.
Any idea whether I should redo some of the paint please, the enlarged images dont show how it looks in real life of course. The Cosford plane's paint is distressed in various ways so might not show TBH.
That will be a relief 'cos shiny is scary on a Wessex.
Printed off some of my home brew decals (on cheapo paper rather than risk wasting a few quid's worth of real inkjet decal paper) that I cobbled up in Word 2007 using standard fonts that seem to match but by forcing font sizes when not at standard sizes. Adding in a couple of Paintshop Pro and 'Shop images I have arrived at the necessary images for the 'copter's individual sheet.
fun is all around
I had to force a really small font size on the "door name", kinda scary to be honest. Thought I was going to have to hand paint that for a while.
Any idea whether I should redo some of the paint please, the enlarged images dont show how it looks in real life of course. The Cosford plane's paint is distressed in various ways so might not show TBH.
Perdu, I'd like to see it with a coat of Humbrol Matt spray before making a call on the paint. Instinct says it will look good. I wouldn't like to make any corrections based on what it looks like now, becasue it will look totally different with no reflections and slightly lighter after varnishing.
Me too 
I have isolated a few places that are going to get a slightly masked off repaint first though and the odd paint ridge that needs softly sanding down with 1200 grit W&D paper
And a few more stencils that are different to the Modeldecals sheets to whip up too
Does anyone know when 72 sqn ditched the winches off their HC2s? Ive seen a couple of pics without them and XR525 in Cosford has the brackets but no winch
I need to work on the rotor gear next too, quite a lot of realigning to perform there too.
I have isolated a few places that are going to get a slightly masked off repaint first though and the odd paint ridge that needs softly sanding down with 1200 grit W&D paper
And a few more stencils that are different to the Modeldecals sheets to whip up too
Does anyone know when 72 sqn ditched the winches off their HC2s? Ive seen a couple of pics without them and XR525 in Cosford has the brackets but no winch
I need to work on the rotor gear next too, quite a lot of realigning to perform there too.
If it's Saturday I might have a little more to show
After waiting for my new cheapo dual action airbrush (Tuesday from a weekend eBaying) I had a practise with it's much finer line capability.
Still need to get the pressure from my garage compressor down and a suitable adapter so I'm using my car tyre adapter to feed the brush
It feels quite nice to operate and has allowed me to feather the edges of the NATO Green a little better (little, later on will be practice time) and so with dried new bits of paint and a suitably foggy sprayed edges I have fitted my home made transfers.
Printed on inkjet decal paper from Hannants and designed in MS Word2007 I have managed to add adapted artwork from Photoshop and Paintshop Pro to various text font faces for stencillings with odd snippets of "found in my decal folder" images.
The "CHECK TAILWHEEL UNLOCKED BEFORE TOWING" above the tailwheel was forced down to 1 point text.
Great fun testing the boundaries
Also using the fabulous Modeldecal sheet 95 and some of the kit's decals too.
A drawback is that I need to remake one of the tail danger signs, when fitting it the softening fluid caused it to shrivel due to me mishandling it
Better luck next time huh
After waiting for my new cheapo dual action airbrush (Tuesday from a weekend eBaying) I had a practise with it's much finer line capability.
Still need to get the pressure from my garage compressor down and a suitable adapter so I'm using my car tyre adapter to feed the brush
It feels quite nice to operate and has allowed me to feather the edges of the NATO Green a little better (little, later on will be practice time) and so with dried new bits of paint and a suitably foggy sprayed edges I have fitted my home made transfers.
Printed on inkjet decal paper from Hannants and designed in MS Word2007 I have managed to add adapted artwork from Photoshop and Paintshop Pro to various text font faces for stencillings with odd snippets of "found in my decal folder" images.
The "CHECK TAILWHEEL UNLOCKED BEFORE TOWING" above the tailwheel was forced down to 1 point text.
Great fun testing the boundaries
Also using the fabulous Modeldecal sheet 95 and some of the kit's decals too.
A drawback is that I need to remake one of the tail danger signs, when fitting it the softening fluid caused it to shrivel due to me mishandling it
Better luck next time huh
Eric Mc said:
It's coming on.
Thanks EricIt's feeling better now too
The cheapo airbrush didnt have to do much but it did allow a better feathering of the harsher edges and the places where the "fit" wasnt right.
At that price I may go for a couple more, so there's a different colour in each pot £12.99 and free postage
It's the one at the top, I know you know but others mightn't
When I have more experience I may, like you, invest in an even better version but for now it seems good enough to learn dual-action with.
I am going to do more practising with gouache first.
Learn a bit of technique to get me on the way
(I do have a Frog Wessex fuselage that is crying out for a BS381 Golden Yellow coat and a lot of suitable decals from Modeldecals, it seems that as Hannants sell out that will be the end of an era)
I am going to do more practising with gouache first.
Learn a bit of technique to get me on the way
(I do have a Frog Wessex fuselage that is crying out for a BS381 Golden Yellow coat and a lot of suitable decals from Modeldecals, it seems that as Hannants sell out that will be the end of an era)
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