Helo 53 Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 Umm , well today has been a bit of a mini disaster After several light coats of paint using the H-305 , I wasn't completely happy with the finish as I could still see the remains of the camouflage patten outlines from earlier . So I decided for a quick but gentle paint strip back using some Mr Muscle I left the lid on the plastic box for about twenty minutes and then using an old tooth brush I started to gentle scrub the paint off . This was working quite well until the helo slipped from my grasp and hit the floor , with one of the sponsons coming off . Sooooo, now I've decided to go with plan 'D' and grab another Revell HH-3E kit from the shelf and not completely start over but use the all the interior pieces from the first build and just replace the fuselage halves , new canopy and windows . All my scratch built pieces are still in good order , that's where the bulk of the work was . So it shouldn't take too long to respray the fuselage insides , touch up the cockpit with a little paint , glue in the windows and then glue everything back inside the fuselage halves and glue together . My apologise to everyone for stuffing things up , it should only take three days to get back on track and start the painting again . Later on I'll clean up the original fuselage halves and canopy and put them aside to use on the next HH-3E build . Their too expensive to completely scrap , at $30 for each of these Revell kits , I'm not about to throw anything away . Again , sorry guy's . No more stuff-ups , I promise Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spectre711 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Oh Noooooooooooooooooooooo! That SUCKS! Back to the paint It would have been fine if you wanted the fresh out of the paint shop look. Mixing the paint to lighten things up is the way to go but it is time consuming. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Helo 53 Posted March 21, 2013 Author Share Posted March 21, 2013 If it was just one minor issue with the paint finish I probably wouldn't have changed anything . In the end , I just wasn't happy with the camouflage patten and the wrong shade of grey was the tipping point . I'm more embarrassed than upset ; I would rather do things over than keep going and not like the finished model . Yesterday I cut open the side cabin door and added some plastic strip to the opening as I did with the first build . I also added some plastic strip to the bottom edge of the sponsons and glued the landing gear struts in place I decided to use some spare lindberg main rotors and after glueing them to the center hub , I clamped the rotor assembly upside down onto a dinner plate and placed it outside in the sun for a day and a half to obtain a slight droop in the main rotor blades I finished airbrushing the fuselage insides late this morning and I'm now glueing the cockpit , cabin floor and interior pieces into place along with the cabin windows I also made a nose access door with a light fitted from some 1 thou plastic sheet and I found some PE windshield wipers and couple of vents to use as well I just finished spraying the main rotors and I'm happy with the slight rotor droop So everything is going okay for a second time around , I should have the fuselage halves together by tomorrow and the seems puttied . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spectre711 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Love the droop you put on the blades. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Helo 53 Posted March 24, 2013 Author Share Posted March 24, 2013 I'm making steady progress on the replacement HH-3E I just need to sand a little more putty around the engine intake piece and a small section on the nose , then I'll glue the canopy on . I also started fixing the first HH-3E build and cut a new piece of plastic for the cabin floor and a second cockpit bulkhead/instrument rack . I was trying to decide what colour scheme to do for the original build and looked through Squadrons H-3 Sea king book and saw this pic It's a bit hard to see at first but there is the California Air Guard stencilling on the external fuel tank . I then decided to have a extensive look through my decal stash , starting with the 25 sets of Wolf Pack decals I have ; It turns out I have a 'ton' of ANG markings I didn't realise I had . I wanted to find the 'Air Guard' logo that's on a shield , that's the same as what's on the California HH-3E . One of the Wolf pack sheets has some markings for an A-7D Oklahoma ANG I'm thinking of borrowing the two Air Guard logo's for my HH-3E If it's okay with you Spectre , I'll keep both builds under the one topic , an HH-3E New York ANG ( Euro One scheme) and a HH-3E California ANG (ADC grey with black bordered yellow tail band). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spectre711 Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 You can do that or break them into two if you want. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Helo 53 Posted March 30, 2013 Author Share Posted March 30, 2013 I'm still plugging away on the HH-3E builds . The New York Air Guard helo is finally ready to mask for painting . I made some more cabin seats for the California ANG HH-3E and I decided to paint those red . One small thing that has been a little frustrating is I have had to make three rear cabin floor pieces as the first two pieces cracked ; One when filing the edges smooth after cutting and the next one when I pulled the masking tape off after spraying the non slip black down the center . Unfortunatly the third one just cracked now , near the end when I tried to take the slight bow in the floor piece by bowing back in the opposite direction . I'll just glue it back on , I don't feel like making a fourth one and I want to get the second HH-3E glued up and puttied . More WIP pic's shortly . John . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spectre711 Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 How are things going? You were making some great progress. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Helo 53 Posted May 9, 2013 Author Share Posted May 9, 2013 Hi Spectre ; I can't believe it's been 5 weeks since my last post . Anyway I have overcome my wrist injury and I should be back into the build in the next day or so . I'm looking forward to getting both HH-3E builds finished so I can move onto other Reserve builds . John . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spectre711 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 John, I was just wondering if you finished any of these? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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