Westland WG-11A ASW Helicopter

[Captain Canada]

Looks great. Love big choppers. Defo looking forward to seeing more pics of her !

[DogfighterZen]

Very nice indeed.

[chrisonord]

Liking that Geoff, could only see the last pic of it because of the PB plague 
Chris

[darthspud2]

Sycamore-esque front end to my eye.
Great whif build there 

[Thorvic]

That looks really good, and SO Chinook like.

Was it a case of 'great minds think alike' or was there some Boeing-Vertol influence there?

Well I suspect the team from ex-Bristol's based at Weston Super Mare may have been behind it, and Westlands did get the licence for the Boeing Vertol V-107 Sea Knight, so I suspect both were used to evolve a Chinook style design

[KiwiZac]

Now that's cool. Bravo Geoff! Real double-take stuff.

[kitnut617]

Well done Geoff --- beauty   

[Weaver]

That's excellent - well done! 

[zenrat]

Nice.

[Mossie]

She looks great Geoff.  I've never quite been able to picture the WG.11 from the drawings, good to see her in the flesh.

[Thorvic]

Cheers Guys, I must really try and finish it off this week with its aerials, but will need to clear the bench first.

I must admit I quite like it, I did get into the doldrums with moving workshop and then the build hit a stop when trying to work out how to do the engines, but once I worked that out the rest sort of clicked into place.

I have already sourced another pair of kits, this time Fujimi as the different kit design may lend itself better to the conversion. This time I think it will be the Assault version with the ramp down. Alternately I could do the Heliliner which would look rather different with the wings and stretched cabin.

However I have my other builds to finish over the next 15 days  , and after that I should really do a real RN Whirlwind and Merlin to give the comparison's to the projects. Come next Telford we may hopefully finally get a Wasp kit to keep the RN Helicopter theme going. (I Spent too many years in my youth under the flight path on the Chesil Beach for RNAS Portland so grew up to daily flights from the Wasp and Wessex, then Lynx and the occasional Sea King  , so have always loved building RN Helicopters ).

[PR19_Kit]

(I Spent too many years in my youth under the flight path on the Chesil Beach for RNAS Portland so grew up to daily flights from the Wasp and Wessex, then Lynx and the occasional Sea King  , so have always loved building RN Helicopters ).

That must have been a fascinating place to live.

Ironically RNAS Portland was entitled HMS Osprey, and the FAA don't fly Ospreys...................yet. 

(I mean the Ospreys with tilting rotor things on their wing tips, not the ones with biplane wings and Kestrel engines naturally)

[McColm]

Great work

[loupgarou]

Excellent build!   Want to start butchering some CH-46/47!

[Glenn Gilbertson]

All your hard work was worthwhile - a great-looking result.