Special Hobby 1/72nd Westland Whirlwind Completed page 2.
Well, while waiting for those figures to finish off the Arado, it was time to get started on my next build, the SH 72nd Westland Whirlwind. Its been a long time, about 15 years, since i built a WW2 British aircraft, so well overdue. And this is my 4th build in my long term project to build aircrfat from all the military airfields in Norfolk. I started on Thurs night and its gone pretty good so far.
This is the kit. I am growing to like Special Hobby kits. Some nice subjects and despite the lack of location tabs they go together well and have some nice detail.
The kit includes resin and PE.
I also have a set of resin wheels. This are flattened out and do have some raised detail. But at this scale you can't really see it and the kit has a nice pair of resin wheels anyway. So this were not really needed, but seeing as i have them, might as well use them.
So first, the pit. There was not much to put together before i set some paint down, the rest, mostly PE and resin, was painted on its frets.
After that a coat of black primer and painting useing Humbrols interiour green. The Xtracolour for this, my normal choice, has been out of stock for a while, somthing thats getting prety common with that brand, so i went for the Humbrol paint. The instruments were done with Humbrol flat black.
Also got the wings together, just a bit of cleaning up left to do.
And after painting last night, i was able to get a couple of bits of ground equipment together. These are Type B bomb trolleys from the Flightpath bomb train set. I'll also be ading a Flightpath tractor.
And in case your thinking didn't he just do a bomb loading dio on the Arado, you are correct. Pure coincidance.
And thats it for now. I am planning to get the pit in and fuselage together tonight. Once i have the wings on i can start sizing up for the base.