1/72 MH-53e

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T. van Vuuren

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I want to do a helo for the MOY next year so I got this.


Italeri 1/72 MH-53e sea dragon.


I will be attempting to sctatchbuild the folded rotors and do allot of weathering on it.


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Yea, this is an interesting subject. I do love helos....way more "feel" than a fixed wing aerie  ;)


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The problem with this kit is that the cabin detail basically is only a floor and some formers in the rear boom. There is no roof of formers in the front section so I have to make it all from scratch.
I cut strips of styrene and started glueing them the the fuse side. The inadequite rear detail I had to file away and will have to do like the rest of the fuse. Then I will have to somehoe figure out how to shape anbd make the roof lining.
This is the effect I want but will have to take some artistic licence with some of the detail.
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Ian. I have to add allot of detail as I plan to have the door and ramp open and the kit has basically no detail, not even a roof :sad:


I plan to have a folded main rotor and maybe a tail aswell, this will all have to be modified from the standard kit.


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T. van Vuuren said:
Ian. I have to add allot of detail as I plan to have the door and ramp open and the kit has basically no detail, not even a roof :sad:


I plan to have a folded main rotor and maybe a tail aswell, this will all have to be modified from the standard kit.


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It will be interesting to see how you tackle that for future reference Theuns.
 
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I had to build the seats for the cabin...it was just to bare to my liking. I heat formed some lastic sheet to from te bottom seats and glued them to the flat back rests. I will still make the posts that hold them up. The rear seats will be in the stowed up position. Theuns
 
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I had a little time so I did some work on the 53.The effect looks quite rough now, but the cabin will be like a dark cave so I am not to worried about it.I still have allot of stuff to build for the cabin, the roof section is going to be vert tricky as I can nly do it once the fuse is joined and access will be limited... Theuns
 
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Man the fit on thos kit is lacking! I wonder why they didn't just have 2 fuse halves instead of the 3 they have here.


I managed to wrangle the fuse together but I will have to do allot of filling and sanding on the bottom. Lucky for me I got a new re-scribing river tool so it should be OK.








 


I am starting to think my odea of folding the rotor and the tail was to optimistic for this kit, I am not sure all that work will add to the overall improvement of the final result. Maybe just build it and move on.


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Superb detailing Theus, looking good so far, that bottom area does look ropy-fit wise-I know you will crack it.
 
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I tried to simulate the destinctive oil canning on the back of the fuselage but it was a spectacular failure  :sad:








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on the real one the area just bejind the ramp pivot tends to have the skin wrinkle as the tail wants to droop down.
 
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I have had nothing bad a bad time building this model, after countless tries to get the paint fixed I finally snapped and just chucked it in the bit.....my sanity is worth more than this model :smiling:


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