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                        My first Helicopter model (excepting a Rotodyne)

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                        madmike
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Perth, Western Australia
                        My first Helicopter model (excepting a Rotodyne)
                        Posted by madmike on Friday, September 3, 2004 9:13 PM
                        Hi all

                        Thought I would share my first Helicopter build with everyone.

                        This is the 1:72 Matchbox RAN Westland Wessex HAS.31. Kit went together really well in the main, with fiddly bits being the canopy fit and the undercarriage legs. I needed to scratchbuild the intake at the nose. In hindsight I should have used a finer mesh but this was all I had available. Next one I will use bridal veil mesh.




                        Hope you like it

                        cheers

                        MikeJ
                        "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 3, 2004 10:51 PM
                        Looks like a stellar job to me - thanks for sharing.
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                        albymoore
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Tip O' da Mitt (Northern Michigan)
                        Posted by albymoore on Saturday, September 4, 2004 5:28 AM
                        Lo' Mike,

                        Where have I seen you before??? Big Smile [:D] Nice to see a familiar name. The Wessex looks fabulous. The Wessex/S-58 is such an ungainly and cool looking chopper all at once. Might have to look at getting one myself, as I'd like to build one for IDF/AF service.

                        Again, nice job Mike.

                        Cheers,
                        Albert Clown [:o)]

                        "I know what it wants now...the void has swallowed the light and the machine wants my soul"

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                        midnightprowler
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: East Bethel, MN
                        Posted by midnightprowler on Saturday, September 4, 2004 7:28 AM
                        Great job Mike!! Would like to get that Rotodyne kit. Nice cobra there albert.
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                        HomagerMan
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                          November 2003
                        • From: Dublin, Ireland
                        Posted by HomagerMan on Saturday, September 4, 2004 4:29 PM
                        Sweet. lookes very nice
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