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- From: Australia
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Progress pic's of my 1/72 HH-3E Jolly Green Giant
Posted by Helo H-34
on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 11:16 PM
Hi everyone , I thought I would share some progress pic's of my Lindberg 1/72 HH-3E . I decided to use a Revell Westland Seaking MK 41 to improve my Lindberg kit . I was a little hesitant at first , as I've never "cut-up'' a $30.00 Revell kit to fix a $10.00 kit before. Anyway everything appears to have worked out okay so far !! . I cut and fitted the front cockpit section from revell's seaking to each of the fuselage halves of lindberg's HH-3 , revell's cockpit has a lot more detail and a better canopy than lindberg's offering . I also wanted to use revell's rotor blades and hub , however lindberg's main rotor housing isn't recessed , so I decided to cut the middle section of the rotor housing from revell's kit and fit it to lindberg's HH-3 . This took me a while to do , with quite a few applications or Tamiya putty and sanding to blend it in to each fuselage half . I borrowed some troop seats out of a Italeri UH-34J kit and added some plastic strip to the bottom of the seat backs to raise them up to be level with the top of the cabin windows . I cut open the starboard door and added a gunner and another on the rear ramp . As well as a couple of stretches with roof hooks and wire cables , plus some bit's and pieces from the spare's box to make the cabin look busy .
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