1/48 H-19 resin detail set WIP

Looks great Swanny!

I appreciate all the interest but everyone needs to understand this is a very slow moving project. I work on it when the mood strikes which for me is when I do my best stuff. I'll keep everyone updated and as soon as enough is together to be worth creating an upgrade package I will produce 20 or 30 copies or whatever I can until the molds give up. This is definitely for the advanced modeler as some serious surgery needs to happen inside the model to bring it close to a representation of reality.

I like the sound of what you are creating!  If you gear it toward an experienced modeler, you could easily only provide molds for those more complicated shapes and just have templates for many other things.  It sounds lie your project could easily be a good combination of the modeler's art and aftermarket convenience.

 

Swanny,

I just picked up the Coast Guard version of the Revell H-19 boxing and would also be interested in your resin set. Looks nice so far!

Pam

It's slow going. I'm keeping track of everyone who has expressed an interest and as soon as I have some ready I'll send everyone a notice. Started work on DVD volume IV this week.

We are eagerly awaiting any further progress on on your project Sawanny!

Beautiful work! I'm an S-55 fan and have a couple of Revell kits I'd like to do in different schemes. I would be interested in buying 2 or 3 sets.

Paul

Swanny,

it's a great job ! I'm inerested to get resin set too

Luca

Italy

 

It's slow going. I work on it when the interest catches me. Right now it's back to the sideboard.

Any progress on the resin set. I have two of these pigs and will surely get two sets.

 

Semper fi

Dan

Swanny

You ain't kidding about the TLC. I was looking at one in the museum in Seattle and did not see a single raised rivet anywhere on it - not one. Look at the kit however .....

Yea I know. In a pinch, you can use the kit's fuselage as a cheese grater!  

You ain't kidding about the TLC. I was looking at one in the museum in Seattle and did not see a single raised rivet anywhere on it - not one. Look at the kit however .....

Swanny

Thanks for the update. Can't wait to see the final product. This old kit needs a lot of TLC to make it look right . I'll be checking back for updates on this one since I got one of them in my stash. 

Nothing new right now. This is something that sits to one side of my main work area and gets some attention between other builds. I think the next thing I'll be doing with this will be some templates for the main cabin. Needs a floor, ceiling, front and aft bulkheads before I can start figuring out the canvas seats and cargo nets. If you have one of these kits you know how little is actually in the box, my work area for this one has one kit box completely full of kit parts, molds, resin parts and drawings along with a second box full of good castings and masters.

Just wandering if there's any progress with Swanny's H-19 project.

Good luck finding aftermarket stuff for this, best of my knowledge there is absolutely nothing which is why I'm making this stuff. As for the side door I most likely will not be making a new door. I have cut mine free and sanded it a little thinner but now can see how having a new resin door would make removal of the old door simpler for the average modeler, we'll see. I already have a master for the front windshield and will also be doing the upper side windows as they are bulged. The lower windows are just flat panes so I figure if you are good enough to make a resin set like this work then you are good enough to cut a few flat panels from clear stock. Right now I am working on the yoke and collective then need to make the templates for the lower cabin roof, floor and bulkheads. Note I said 'templates', I'm just going to provide those and the modeler will have to cut them from sheet stock. I'm going to have to make a couple of resin pieces for the tail rotor tunnel where it passes through the lower cabin as well. It's hard to decide what to include and where to stop and still keep the whole package reasonable, both for production and for cost. I've got quite a few bucks tied up in molds and masters already.

I'm interested!

Swanny

Wow! Your work is impressive and I also will like to be included for your upgrade parts. I recently picked up the Revell kit on ebay and was hoping to obtain some aftermaket parts for it. Will you be tackling the door and cabin windows also?

Looks great to me!

I've seen interiors of these helos done in both light gray and interior green. This one obviously will end up interior green. While these modifications may not be up to CMK or CE standards they're a heck of a lot better than what the kit started with and I have a long ways to go yet.

I'm kind of looking at that right now. Have to decide how much to do in resin and how much is just going to be scratch work that the modeler will have to deal with. Thanks for the pics - very helpful and confirmed a couple things I was trying to remember.

Could we perhaps convince you to do this transmission?  I haven't looked at an H-19 kit in a while but on the real aircraft the xmsn is pretty visible.

Keep in mind that these are museum aircraft so accuracy is at the whum of those who did the restoration.

 

 

I'll post them here for all to see.  Back of cabin working forward.  File names should specify aircraft type:

supercobra wrote:

Aaronw wrote: Looks nice, Heritage just came out with a detail set for the H-34 / Wessex so finally both of these are covered for detail. Now if Revell would just bring back the kits. Had heard this one and just tried to search for Heritage with no luck - got a link or more details?

I picked up one of the Heritage sets when they first came out and yes - they work for the Wessex and the H-34 but are not as nice as the older Cutting Edge H-34 set. As for reference I could use some information on the lower cabin, specifically the forward firewall.

It is for a Wessex but should work for an H-34 as well since the main difference is the engine.

http://www.heritageaviationmodelsltd.com/wessex-helicopter-detail-set-261-p.asp

It says they are working on a full resin Wessex in 1/48 too.

I bought several 1/72 items for the Whirlwind from them last year and had great service. Shipping to the US was surprisingly reasonable.

 

Ditto on what everyone else said. I would like a set when you are ready to go into production.

Charlie