Whirlwind HAR 9 conversion

[chriswil42]

Started this at the playday.
Cockpit assembled. Fuselage halves modified to accept the new nose and fuselage bottom shown in the last photo.

[zak]

Nice work.

[Bigkev]

Ooooo, that looks interesting.
Watching with interest.
Kevin

[Bob C]

That will be another nice build.

Bob c

[chriswil42]

Hope so.

[MSea]

Another great one for the collection

[cph64]

There looks to be some nice detail in the kit moulding and the resin nose should stop any chance of tail-sitting.

[chriswil42]

You're right there Chris. Just hope the oleos will be ok.

[Bigkev]

Hi Chris,
I have some Mr. Colour 171 for you as discussed, will bring it to the meeting.
Kevin

[chriswil42]

Thanks Kevin. It'll be a few weeks before getting to the painting stage with this.

[chriswil42]

Cockpit painted and ready for placement in fuselage.

[Bigkev]

Coming along nicely.
Soon be ready for the fuselage to be closed up.
Kevin

[Jonners]

Great project! I'd love to have been able to sample a 1:1 turbine Whirlwind, even though they didn't have enough engines!
Italeri really ought to reissue their H-19 kits as their long absence has left a real gap in the rotary kit market. I'd certainly buy a couple...even though that would put me dangerously close to having the beginnings of a stash, especially as modelling time has hovered pretty close to zero recently. I'm pretty sure that Airwaves also produced a HAR.10 conversion as well, though obviously without the belly torpedo recess for the Mk9, but it seemed to be even rarer than the Italeri kits. I've got the RAFDEC SAR Whirlwinds decal sheet waiting optimistically for those reissues! (And, just as optimistically, more modelling time.  )

[chriswil42]

Yes I've built the HAR 10.
If you're interested Jon, the company that used to be Whirlybird models ( now air-craft models ) has produced a HAR 9 resin kit.

[Jonners]

"If you're interested Jon, the company that used to be Whirlybird models ( now air-craft models ) has produced a HAR 9 resin kit."

Cheers Chris, I've seen that Whirlybird / Air-Craft has produced some nice 'classic' helicopter kits. I've just spotted a HAR.9 kit on eBay - for ?50! Ouch...