Building the Hasegawa SH-3H

This image shows the neat Alclad-painted exhausts, but also how I needed to saw them apart to attach them after assmebling the fuselage. 

This prepainted PE seriously helps up the look of a cockpit. 

The precut masks are hugely helpful in a project with some many windows like this. The only caveat is that the Maskol did react with the Klear used on the clear parts.  

After many trials and tribulations, and a close shave with trashing the kit, the canopy is test-fitted. 

Building my approximation of how the cross sections of the tail boom look when folded. 

Opening the areas under the grilles and annealing the PE to better conform the part to the curved area. 

Neatly masked, yet the wrong shape around the exhausts. That open grille before the rotor is a big improvement over the kit part. 

Making a flying mask from a piece of adhesive notepaper. The paper was soaked in CA glue to prevent it from warping, and a section of .5 mm styrene rod was glued below it to act as a spacer. 

I enjoy using utterly inappropriate paints. This is a Royal navy antifouling red. 

I strated with the trickiest and largest decals and worked my way to the nitty-gritty stenciling from there. 

After de-masking. The demarcation of the antiglare black panel was tidied up later. 

Simple paper cuffs sufficed to secure the folded rotor blades.