Waspie
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Hi folks. Good news, for me anyway!
Bulk of the chores are finished and today I managed to have a serious look at the Westland Wasp Mk1 (And only 1),
Oh isn't it small!!! The sprues have no lettering or numbers on them, not that it's a problem as I'm more than familiar with the cab. Loads of flash, so mucho cleaning up to do.
Took a couple of sprue shots to give me the umph to get started. Not that I need any!!
Pic 1
Quite a few Scout parts on this so not all needed.
Pic 2
Two tail pylons, one for the Scout the other for the Wasp. Front cabin nose window cut out will need a bit of work!!
Pic 3
Clear plastic and decals.
I will be endeavouring to scratch a couple of the missile boxes in the cockpit as well as the missile guidance control. But in 1/72 I'm not holding my breath on that!!!
Missiles due to arrive late July and have some thinking to do regards them, Wings or no wings!! What colour to paint the warhead. Do I make them 'warshot' or training heads???
The Wasp was primarily a MATCH helicopter, or Medium Attack Torpedo Carrying Helicopter! (I think that's right) then in the late 70's an Israeli vessel, (the Eilat) was taken out by a Styx missile fired from an Egyptian fast patrol boat. The RN realised it had nothing to respond to such an attack itself so the Wasp was retrofitted with the AS12 missile system as variation of the French SS12 Nord Aviation weapon system.
I also need to start thinking about how to add some slight twist to the main rotor blades!
The Wasp was fairly unique in many ways! The Nimbus engine was a mix of co-axial and centrifugal compressor and the rotor blades to give it the correct lift had tapered blades as well as a couple of degree twist from root to tip!!! The rotor speed, (NR), was very high at 401rpm, very close to the speed of sound.
That's it for now folks. Just waiting to get out of the blocks now!! (Washing sprues).
Doug
Bulk of the chores are finished and today I managed to have a serious look at the Westland Wasp Mk1 (And only 1),
Oh isn't it small!!! The sprues have no lettering or numbers on them, not that it's a problem as I'm more than familiar with the cab. Loads of flash, so mucho cleaning up to do.
Took a couple of sprue shots to give me the umph to get started. Not that I need any!!
Pic 1
Quite a few Scout parts on this so not all needed.
Pic 2
Two tail pylons, one for the Scout the other for the Wasp. Front cabin nose window cut out will need a bit of work!!
Pic 3
Clear plastic and decals.
I will be endeavouring to scratch a couple of the missile boxes in the cockpit as well as the missile guidance control. But in 1/72 I'm not holding my breath on that!!!
Missiles due to arrive late July and have some thinking to do regards them, Wings or no wings!! What colour to paint the warhead. Do I make them 'warshot' or training heads???
The Wasp was primarily a MATCH helicopter, or Medium Attack Torpedo Carrying Helicopter! (I think that's right) then in the late 70's an Israeli vessel, (the Eilat) was taken out by a Styx missile fired from an Egyptian fast patrol boat. The RN realised it had nothing to respond to such an attack itself so the Wasp was retrofitted with the AS12 missile system as variation of the French SS12 Nord Aviation weapon system.
I also need to start thinking about how to add some slight twist to the main rotor blades!
The Wasp was fairly unique in many ways! The Nimbus engine was a mix of co-axial and centrifugal compressor and the rotor blades to give it the correct lift had tapered blades as well as a couple of degree twist from root to tip!!! The rotor speed, (NR), was very high at 401rpm, very close to the speed of sound.
That's it for now folks. Just waiting to get out of the blocks now!! (Washing sprues).
Doug
Marmite attack torpedo carrying helicopter , dont tell Dave (
. Looking forward to this doug, its a tiny thing in 1/72 , I remember having the old 
I remember the wasp on the Leander, then started swapping them all out for the lynx.