To make what you see through the see-through area more believable, I made a curved part cast in dental resin for the front and an insert from foam board for the rear part of the interior.
I had to spray the nose prior to installing the interior and prior to adding it to the fuselage. I primed it in black, and continued with grey, red, orange and finally dayglo orange.
The Eduard masks worked exceedingly well and showed me I needed to cut another window into the access door not provided in the kit (even though the transparency was).
The rotor blades were masked and sprayed per instructions. As the CTA decals did not include the rotor blade stripes, I used the ones from the kit. As they came from the late 90ies, that wasn´t that satisfying. I still remember Revell decals from that era, an overpowering tendency to silvering was their main characteristic.
Finally. After decaling, I sealed the decals with Future, added a flat coat and then the numerous fiddly bits. The antenna wires were made from Albion Alloys .1 mm nickel silver wire.
Frank Spahr Thank you, Piotr! Almost. I just brought out the Sea King kit and tested tinting the windows green. So I think I´ll start it pretty soonish.
29 January 2023, 16:22
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I´m building a collection of the aircraft from HMS Ark Royal IV´s late airgroups, as seen in the TV documentary "Sailor". This helicopter, a true workhorse, was built from the Italeri kit (albeit in a Revell boxing) using CTA decals and Eduard masks and PE. It needed some backdating and I hope I got most of it right.
Piotr Sarniński-Górecki
Frank Spahr
