Improving Lindberg's HH-3?

Thank's Aaronw , Here's the other original Lindberg HH-3 , I've since stripped the paint finish and got the fuselage halves apart . It has now become the USCG HH-3F Pelican . You can find some progress pic's on page 4 -titled 'Progress pic's USCG HH-3F Pelican' and a couple more pic's on this current page titled 'I've messed up the paint finish on my HH-3F Pelican' . The two pic's I posted earlier are actually the same model , a bit of a "Then and Now" scenario . Kind regards John .

Your OOB build actually looks better than I would have expected, although the modified one is better.

Are you using the Lindberg kit for your Pelican as well? I know you had a post saying what you did on that build but I can't seem to find it now.

Hi Aaronw , Here's a couple of comparison pic's of Lindberg's 1/72 scale HH-3E . [I assume you are talking about the 1/72 scale version] . Anyway the first pic is the original HH-3E out of the box build . It builds up nice and quick , there is however a nasty gap [about 2mm] where the canopy joins the front fuselage . I remember having to cut a piece of strip plastic to fit on the top edge of the nose where the front of the canopy joins up . The gap was too big to fill with putty . The second pic you probably have already seen , I fitted a Revell Seaking cockpit to the front because it had a lot more detail than Lindberg's and I cut opened the side door and added a rear floor , seats and gunners . I also modified the rotor housing to use Revell's main rotors which was a lot of work [for me anyway] . So if your looking for a quick build out of the box , the lindberg kit comes up okay , perhaps you could scrounge up some spare cockpit seats and a better console panel to replace what's in the kit , that would go a long way to improving her . I hope this helps . Kind regards John