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August / Sept 2013
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ROYAL AIR FORCE WESTLAND
WESSEX
ALBERT TURECZEK BUILDS
ITALERI’S NEW WESSEX HU-5
CONTENTS
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RAF Westland Wessex HU-5
Albert Tureczek builds Italeri’s new 1:48 chopper.
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‘Super Hornet’ VFA-102 Diamondbacks F/A-18F
Florent Welter builds Hasegawa’s 1:48 US Navy Super Hornet.
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Messerschmitt ME410
Meng Model’s first 1:48 scale aircraft kit modelled by Paulo Portuesi
38
Condor FW-200 C-4 ‘Scourge of the Atlantic’
Tomas de la Fuente gets to grip with the 1:48 Trumpeter kit.
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US Navy Aircraft: Their Liveries and Markings - Part Four
Hugh W. Cowin concludes his study of US Navy markings and camouflage
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Air Born
New releases.
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Grumman J2F-J ‘Sitting Duck’
1:48 super detailed seaplane by Maciek Zywczyk
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ROYAL AIR FORCE
WESTLAND
WESSEX
The Westland Wessex is a British
turbine powered version of the
American Sikorsky S-58. In 1956
Westland Helicopters received a
HSS-1 as a pattern for license
manufacturing the helicopter for the
Royal Navy as a submarine hunter.
The helicopters entered service in 1958 and were designated
HAS 1 and HAS 3. The Royal Air Force showed interest as well
and took delivery of their version, the HC-2 in early 1962. Later
followed the versions HCC 4 and HU Mk 5. The British helicopters
were powered by a Rolls Royce Gnome turbine and had a long
and distinguished service career. They even saw combat action
in the South Atlantic. In all 378 aircraft were built. Australia was
the sole export customer to the type. The last one was retired in
2003.
Italeri released the kit late in 2012. There are not an awful lot of
models around from this remarkable helicopter and the news of
a quaterscale release of this kit even added to the excitement. It
quickly became the talk of the ‘town’ We decided to take a closer
look!
You get a box filled with light grey plastic. Even though the model
has relatively large proportions, there is not a frightening amount
of sprues to meet the eye on opening the box. Surface detail is
good, the fit we will have to talk about. There is a large, colourful,
well-printed and comprehensive decal sheet, a little etched fret
and some netting. It is only possible to build one version in one
configuration. Markings are provided for three Royal Navy helos
and for one Royal Air Force machine.
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ALBERT TURECZEK
MODELS ITALERI’S 1:48TH WESSEX.
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