Westland Wessex HAS.1 HMS Ark Royal IV
- Subject:
Westland Wessex HAS Mk.1
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (1937-now)
Ark Royal Ship's Flight XS880/R057
1970 Sixth Commission - HMS Ark Royal (R09)- Scale:
- 1:72
- Status:
- Completed
- Started:
- January 18, 2023
- Completed:
- January 29, 2023
I´m getting there with my collection of aircraft from HMS Ark Royal IV´s late to final airgroups. Having built the four jet and prop aircraft, here is the first of the two helos. The Westland Wessex HAS.1 was built from the Italeri kit of the HAS.3, from a Revell boxing. Some backdating and minor corrections were made. I used Eduard masks and Eduard PE for the exterior of the HU.5 variant, trying to find what made sense.
Project inventory
Full kits
Detail and Conversion sets
Decals
Sixth Commission Air Group of HMS Ark Royal (R09), Early 1970
CtA Models (cut then add) 1:72
CTA-048 (48) 2022 New tool Multi-topic (5)Masks
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Photoalbums
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Building Wessex XS 880 from the Italeri kit
1:72
Finally. After decaling, I sealed the decals with Future, added a flat coat and then the numerous fiddly bits. The anten...
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2 29 January 2023, 13:15