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FALKLANDS GB-1/72nd Italeri Boeing HC.1 Chinook RAF "Bravo November"

by Chuck A. Villanueva on May 26, 2024 · in Aviation · 23 ≡

25 April 1982, the container ship MV Atlantic Conveyer departs the UK to the Falkland Islands. Aboard are 5 HC.1 Ch-47 Chinook medium lift helicopters (No.8 squadron), all the maintenance and ground crews with equipment aboard. Along [...]

Italeri 1/48 Westland Wessex HU.5

by Alistair Gauld on September 29, 2023 · in Aviation · 24 ≡

I had so much fun building this. Never having built a Helicopter before but the scheme caught my eye and so I decided the time was right to give it a go. Primed with Tamiya Neutral Grey. Painted with Airfix Signal Red. Colourcoats RAF Blue [...]

Naming interwar bombers for PR purposes

by Christopher Amano-Langtree on March 14, 2022 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

Bomber naming was rare in interwar years but it did happen. It was very much a unit initiative and the names were sometimes quite temporary. Some names, however, endured for quite some time and were transferred between aircraft (see [...]

Novo/FROG 1/72 Westland Wessex Mk. 1

by Bob Torres on July 17, 2021 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

This is a recent build I made for our club's Helicopter group build. It is a 1978 boxing of a Novo/FROG 1/72 Westland Wessex Mk. 1, 845 Squadron (Commando), Fleet Air Arm, H.M.S. Albion. FROG originally released this kit in 1960. This was [...]

Yellow Wessex

by Mike Grant on November 9, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 17 ≡

This is the Wessex HAR.2 from Mark 1 Models in 1/144 scale. It's a nice kit for the scale with recessed panel lines and pretty good detail overall. I added a little bit of cockpit detail including seat harnesses and instrument gauges, and [...]

Westland Wessex HC 5C, XS517, 84 Sqn RAF B Flight Nicosia Cyprus 1987.

by Allan J Withers on December 21, 2018 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

1/72 Italeri, finished in Humbrol and MM enamels with Klear and Vallejo matt varnish over kit decals, built for the RAF 100 GB, more pic's and details here: (link)

Westland Wessex Walk Around

by Gary Radford on January 2, 2018 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

Pictures of a Westland Wessex helicopter at Bournemouth Air Museum in the U.K

Wessex Queen’s Flight

by Emre Tuzun on July 14, 2017 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

This is the Revell's 1/48 Wessex Queen's Flight. To be honest, not much to say. Having seen the original one Colindale RAF Museum, I decided to build one. Phase one was being patient and searching on Ebay. Took a while but managed to [...]

Westland Mk 31B Wessex, N7-218, HS 816 Sqn RAN HMAS Albatross Nowra NSW 1989.

by Allan J Withers on July 31, 2016 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

1/72 Revell, my first Wessex, I modified, replaced and added a few things, finished in Revell and MM enamels with Future over Aussie decals.

Italeri 1/48th westland Wessex HU.5

by mark poulton on April 4, 2016 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

Another Italeri Wessex completed, this time an HU.5 Rescue version from 771 Squadron based at Culdrose. This was my second model of this version as my first, a Commando version from 707 Squadron from Yeovilton met an untimely demise after [...]