New props/decals for 1/72 E-2C Hawkeye

Anonymous

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November 2005

New props/decals for 1/72 E-2C Hawkeye

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 4:01 AM

Hi all,

For my sins, I recently purchased, a Heller 1/72 E-2C Hawkeye.

Discussions elsewhere suggest this is a re-box of a Fujimi kit in one or other of it's incarnations (I believe there were several, none very exciting, but beggars can't be choosers)

The kit comes supplied with some very ordinary French Aeronavale decals and I am wondering if anyone has and is prepared to sell any USN decals - I believe Superscale did a couple of sheets which included the E-2C some years ago.

I'm also interested in whether any company has produced the modern six-bladed props retrofitted to the E-2C in recent years.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Graham

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 6:27 AM

Hi, I believe the Heller kit is indeed a ' re-do' Fujimi kit. Not that this is a bad thing because I have built the Fujimi kit and found it to be fine.
I'll check to see what I have regarding decals.........I have at least 3 of the 1:72 scale Fujimi E-2C Hawkeye kits in the stash somewhere.
As for the props, I don't think anyone has come out with the new 8-bladed props yet.
I photographed a brand new E-2C (less than 3 months old) with the new props last summer at an air show..........believe it or not the plane is a lot quieter and maintenance people tell me the new 8-bladed props require much less attention than did the old 4-bladed props.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:00 PM

I'm interested in this thread also. Tongue [:P]

I have the same kit and I'm looking for a sheet for VAW-115 "Liberty Bells", a CVW-5 squadron. I'm going to try & put together all the Atsugi birds ( including HSL-51 "Warlords" since they did start deploying with the Kitty Hawk when I was there). Big Smile [:D]

I haven't had much luck on Evilbay yet. - Calvin

BTW Graham, Sign - Welcome [#welcome]

to the forums! Cool [8D]

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:05 PM

Ah yes eight blades. I've heard they're quite a success.

Talking of success, I'm impressed with the Revell AG 1/144 kit of the E-2C, which I'm building at the moment. (build is largely done - it's off to the paint shop next) It's great to see this machine tackled by a manufacturer in this scale, and done well too.

Now can we pleeease have a C-2 Greyhound in 1:144 too? : )

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Darren Roberts

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January 2003

Posted by Darren Roberts on Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:42 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by lodni_k

I'm interested in this thread also. I have the same kit and I'm looking for a sheet for VAW-115 "Liberty Bells", a CVW-5 squadron. I'm going to try & put together all the Atsugi birds ( including HSL-51 "Warlords" since they did start deploying with the Kitty Hawk when I was there). I haven't had much luck on Evilbay yet. - Calvin

BTW Graham, to the forums!

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Darren Roberts

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January 2003

Posted by Darren Roberts on Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:45 AM

Oops, sorry about that. If you are working on doing all the CVW-5 aircraft, I had a set of 1/48 scale decals for the Liberty Bells made by Mike Grant. I'm doing a collection of CVW-5 a/c in 1/48 scale myself. You might email him and see if he will downsize it for you. He also has a sheet for the SH-60 unit.

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Firehawk Ordie

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November 2004
From: San Diego

Posted by Firehawk Ordie on Friday, July 22, 2005 2:23 AM

lodni the super scale sheet you need is # 72-536 VAW-114 & 115 i used the 114 decals but used a few of the other decals if you want i can send you what i have left over. Hasegawa put out an SH-60B in Warlords colors a few years back i dont know the kit # however.
heres what i have