Sikorsky H 34 (Hss-1n) Seabat
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A litle of history
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| Construction They have been always fascinated from the helicopters embarks to you with a tail and the shovels of the rotor refolded, therefore, the temptation have been too much strong and after to have made up for a litle of documentation and photo, than on the subject they abound also on Internet, are put to me to the job. I have begun to cut via the tail, in order to close the two snags, I have realized the two bulkheads with the relati ones to you it reinforces structural and it has reconstructed the fuselage part that exited outside with of the plasticard thin, I have replaced the hinges of folding with those in photogravure supplied in the set, finally I have added the handles for the folding of the tail and vary small tubes and eletrici cables. Using the gears of a clock, I have reconstructed the joint of connection of the tail post. |
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| The inner ones have demanded some participation
of improvement like belts, several dashboard,
levers and push-buttons, but since to complete
model they were little visible, are limited
to me lessened indispensable. An other binding job has regarded the substitution of all the grid with those photogravures, in particolar way for that facade that I have had to cut in more parts in order to compensate the remarkable curving of the snout. A famous one goes made on the set of photogravures of the Part that beyond to being truly very made, has not never given some problem to me to adapt pieces to the model. Continuing on outside of the fuselage, following the photos to my disposition, I have several assistant automade external details like tubes, handles, levers and coming from others from the set of photogravures, like the stoppers of the fuel, the antennas of the radio, the door of access to the cargo bay etc. Reconstructed and I have detailed to part of the external winch with plastic tubes and thread of branch, I have replaced the three lead of drainage of the snout, realizing them with branch tubes. Since the legs of the undercarriage originate them appeared too much thick, have replaced to them, reconstructing them with tubes of branch of various diameter. |
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| A large engagement has demanded the mechanism
of folding of the shovels of the main rotor,
every shovel was hinged on a side of the
root and could be refolded a inside removing
the hinge that rendered it loyal with the
rotor. In order to realize these hinges I have used small pieces of branch tube glue to you on a slab of plasticard that I have then fixed is on the rotor that on each shovel, the final effect has revealed much realistic one and the system succeeds in revolve like that real one. I have then fixed the extremities of the shovels refolded on their support of support, place on the helicopter tail. In order to complete I have added to the inferior antennas of the radio and the An/apn-97 radar and relati to you cables. |
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| Coloration and aging The coloration standard of the helicopters of the Italian Navy the epoch, in use to day, previews all the aircraft in Dark Sea Gray with the snout red-orange to high visibility and the tail red-orange and yellow. The paragon that I meant to reproduce, being by now to the end of its operating career, appeared rather old and insufficient cured. I have painted therefore outside using like color base the Extra Dark Sea Gray lH-333 of the Gunze, after to have sprayed a hand of I polish of the Gunze, I have evidenced all the panellings, filling up some the edges with black small cuttlefish to oil and eliminating some the excess with on soft cloth, finally I have schiarito every the internal surface of single panel, spraying several tonalities of the lighting color base, clear up subsequently all with one mixture of blue gray to oil in order to evidence the particular in relief. For the color of the snout and the tail, I have used Red the shining one of the Tamiya clear up with a litle of orange on which I have then sprayed the Red Day Glo of the Testor. I have applied beautifulst decals the Tauromodel, than with a drop of Gunze Mr. Mark Softer they attack to wonder (attention not to exaggerate with soften, these decal are much thin but they stretch to break off itself), finally I have sealed all with the transparent ones of the Gunze stirs until obtaining one to you satin finish. |
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| Diorama In order to represent realistically the model, I have constructed one small part of the bridge of Bafile ship, using sheets of plasticard in order reproducing sheets and a thin sheet of compensated wood recorded in order to reproduce the tableland bridge in, have then added some other particular small like cleats, hooks, eyelets and stays in order to complete the work. |
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| References The Helicopters of Navy- marine Review Rome 1981 H-34 Choctaw in action- Squadron signal n.146 Westland Wessex- 4Plus Publication Links The one of the best walkaround about the "Seabat" on the web: http://www.b-domke.de/AviationImages/Seabat.html The Randy Smith walkarounds on ARC: http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1/401-500/walk425_H-3Â_Smith/walk425.htm http://69.12.6.178/AWA1/401-500/walk457_VH-34_Smith/walk457a.htm http://69.12.6.178/AWA1/401-500/walk457_VH-34_Smith/walk457b.htm http://69.12.6.178/AWA1/401-500/walk410_H-34_Smith/walk410.htm http://69.12.6.178/AWA1/101-200/walk174_H-34/part3/walk174c.htm |
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