Kaman SH-2F Seasprite
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March 23, 2014In my opinion it is not useful to use the 2 large etched parts for aft decking.8
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April 6, 2014Right seat to high, left seat OK.15
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April 6, 2014A piece of plastic for correct placement of instrumentpanel.17
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April 12, 2014The doors are very fine detailed. I add only new grips from wire and few plasticparts for the bumpers.20
April 12, 2014Clear navigations ligts will be add later (replacment for kit parts from grey plastic).21
April 12, 2014Hinges for the panels from wire and its isolation. The detail behind the bulge will be remove: it is missing on "SH-2F"22
April 12, 2014No putty despite of average fit: superglue and plastic is my way to fill gaps.23
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May 9, 2014Die Verglasung besteht aus drei Teilen. Die Seitenteile haben auf der Innenseite "Laschen", die von außen leider sichtbar sind. Das könnte man kaschieren, in dem man die Scheibe nicht komplett abklebt, sondern einen Rand lässt (wie im Bild).36
May 9, 2014So ist aber der Rahmen zwischen der Seitenscheibe und der Frontscheibe doppelt so breit wie er sein sollte.... Was ist dass kleinere Übel? Das ist hier die Frage!37
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May 13, 2014Masking with post'its for aluminum.44
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May 14, 2014Base coat is done. Washing of the entire radome with grey brown: coming soon.47
May 14, 2014It is very stunning! I believe that there are no two identical Seasprites. When I was masking for blue I noticed that 151912 has a narrow aerial on the lower side and cut off the kit part (just the base is left = grey square area on yellow ground).48
May 14, 2014Middle grey is the right color for the gearbox housing.49
May 15, 2014Tamiya tape as masking for engine grey.50
May 15, 2014Do the clear parts fit? This question will be answered in a few minutes...51
May 15, 2014Tamiya tape is the best! Sharp and clear edges between yellow and engine grey🙂52
May 15, 2014Yippie!!! All clear parts fits perfectly. The roof correction it worked.53
May 18, 2014The basis were the decals from Caracal decals (white lines around the antiskid panels). After masking all the white areas I airbrushed a thick coat with unthinned paint (Humbrol) with very low pressure (0,7 bar). For 2nd part of text read/see next pic.54
May 18, 2014Approx. 5 min later I pressed 1500 micro mesh into the still wet paint and produced an uneven surface. This looks in my opinion very similar to the anti skid areas.55
May 21, 2014This is what the MAD-detector looks like in most cases (1 and 2) and in 48 times smaller (3). Only one day (one day!!) after airbrushing I received a picture of the #1912 (this is the heli I want to build) from a modeling mate… arrrrrrghh!56
May 21, 2014Which color does the windows framing have? Engine grey or black? Neither nor! Middle grey (metal??)! I have to do something about this.57
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May 25, 2014Decals from Caracal decals are excellent quality and better than decals from the kit.59
May 25, 2014"Self made" antiskid - areas.60
May 27, 2014Engine grey (FSx6081, top right) is an bluish/greenish grey, and not an neutral grey like x6008 (top left).61
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June 8, 2014Nearly 3 hours of work were needed for ground contact of all four wheels.70
June 8, 2014The tail wheel is mounted in a right angle to the lower fuselage, not to the ground.71
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June 8, 2014Mirror and black paint for mirror-supportarm coming soon.73
June 8, 2014It's very interesting: the MAD-probe & aux tank are in line with the flight direction, not in line with the fuselage74
June 9, 2014A seldom pic from the BSH-workbench 🙂. The wire on both side if support strut are still to long...75
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June 9, 2014Too bad that the mirror-look foil on the mirror it is not clearly visible🙁78
June 9, 2014It was a true chalenge to apply the decals in the struts.....79
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June 13, 2014The tail rotor is designed very well. In my opinion the axle of the x shaped actuator is too short and must be lengthened. A few added discs from different plastic rods and the work is done.86
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June 15, 2014The kit offers a rotor head with blades in the flat position (0 degree). On the most pictures it is clearly visible that the rotor blades have an angle (thx for this hint Felix). Because of that I decided to reposition the blades.88
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June 16, 2014On the inner side of original heli a diagonal support strut is clearly visible.93
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June 16, 2014Original Seasprite has complicated linkage for the flaps, in comparison with other rotor designs.95
June 16, 2014Unfortunately the hinges of the kit are symmetrical to the cut out in the blade. Flaps of the original heli are rectangular not trapezoid....96
June 17, 2014The next step: the tail rotor. The were also machines with one, thee or all grey blades.97
June 17, 2014After building the Seabat, I get a comment from a mate "the hook is clumsy" (quite rightly so🙂 Now I wanted to evade such a comment and "clobbered" the next thing together from 6 etched parts🙂98
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June 24, 2014Have a gone crazy? 2x13 parts for a pair of scissors-dampers per each blade? It wasn't that bad: just 15-20 minutes...107
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July 1, 2014I'm very glad that the Seasprite has only 4 blades-🙂 For example the Superstallion has 7 blades...(argh)109
July 1, 2014The topplate is mounted diagonally (not at right angles) in relation to the blades.110
July 1, 2014On the top the main cable split and supplies the 4 boxes with 4 separate cables.111
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July 6, 2014The chefdesigner of this mechanic was in my opinion a true genius...118
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