Italeri's HH60J US Coast Guard (raised panel lines)

Now what? Not the same size? Ohffs. :| 

Fixed. 

Now what? All red? I don't think so. 

This front piece had some details, but I couldn't clean it up like I wanted, so I removed all the details. 

The kit part for the tail rotor shaft was bad, and just did not stick out in the proper direction, so I just added a piece of styrene rod. 

The interior is very simple, but ok. This kit has the option for displaying an open side door on the starboard side, and apparently an open pilot door on the port side. Nevermind the seats, it was a quick fix. perhaps too quick. 

There is another chair to be glued into the interior. So this kit has, gasp, raised panel lines, but it doesn't look bad. Anyway I will remove the raised panel lines, which is simple enough, and just go for a smooth model. Could be interesting. I may, scribe the panel lines around the two pilot doors.
Also, I started this small project, because I have to wait on some sprue goo to go hard on this D-20 artillery kit I also am working on. 

Old kit part. About 1mm thick plastic around the opening for the main rotor assembly. 

I thinned the edge by scraping with a sharp blade, should be a noticeable improvement from the outside. 

So this is the basic main rotor assembly, missing four rods and ofc the large rotor blades. I did not want to try detail this, but I guess I can maybe add some wiring if it makes sense, and replace the four rods not seen in the photo, with clean styrene rods. I scraped the top plate to become more oval.

Edit: I forgot to point out that had already I snipped off some stuff here, and will re-add it with bits of styrene. I had also glued on some bits of styrene rod at this point.