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Westland Lynx-Now with bits and bits and bits !

Started by Captain Canada, August 20, 2009, 08:39:05 AM

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Captain Canada

I've got 5 on the go now.....should be finished next day or so. This is one I built years ago to be part of a dio, which was to include a pair of GR.3s and a tank. never got finished...anyway, dug her out of the scrap heap and scratched up the skids...



Looks close enough to me !

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Spey_Phantom

on the bench:

-all kinds of things.

Aircav

Cool Lynx Toadie  ;D :thumbsup:
wish someone would do a 1/48 injection version.................
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Taiidantomcat

Lynx are good looking aircraft, you are doing a great job on them  :thumbsup:
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deathjester

Very nice!  Can't work out why Westlands have never tried to turn the Lynx into a dedicated attack helo, instead of buying Apache.  Could even make one like a certain black and white Mach capable chopper.... 

Captain Canada

Thanks for the comments, guys.

As for the attack helo, I've wondered that myself, should be easy enough to do !

I managed to find the rotor hub, but it only had two blades....



Scratched up some exhaust pipes, wire cutters, and added the flare dispensers and RWR bits.

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Captain Canada

Added a few more details to the rotor head

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Captain Canada

Torpedoes and the tail rotor. You know, for all the bitching I do around here, I really need to work on my own photography ! I plan on doing a wee diorama of a heki-meet, so want to take pics of the a/c alone, being loaded, and bombed up.



I think my homemade rotor bits look every bit as good as the factory one. The yellow bits are the dollies for moving the skid equipped birds about.

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Brian da Basher

That's some excellent scratch-building on those rotors, Cap'n! You're right, you can't tell them apart from the ones that came with the kit.

Nice work!
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Brian da Basher

kitnut617

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Mossie

Lynx are always good!  Don't see enough of the skid equipped version. :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r:
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Weaver

Nice one Cap'n!  :thumbsup:

Quote from: deathjester on August 22, 2009, 11:45:33 AM
Very nice!  Can't work out why Westlands have never tried to turn the Lynx into a dedicated attack helo, instead of buying Apache.  Could even make one like a certain black and white Mach capable chopper.... 

You could make a case that the A129 Mangusta "is" the Lynx gunship, since it's powered by two Gems. All it would need is the Lynx's more advanced rotor head....
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Mossie

The Lynx started out life as a gunship design, have a look here, there's a mix of speculative & real projects:
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,14937.0/highlight,westland+lynx.html
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

kitnut617

Quote from: Weaver on August 27, 2009, 04:36:26 AM
Nice one Cap'n!  :thumbsup:

Quote from: deathjester on August 22, 2009, 11:45:33 AM
Very nice!  Can't work out why Westlands have never tried to turn the Lynx into a dedicated attack helo, instead of buying Apache.  Could even make one like a certain black and white Mach capable chopper.... 

You could make a case that the A129 Mangusta "is" the Lynx gunship, since it's powered by two Gems. All it would need is the Lynx's more advanced rotor head....

Ooh! like this then ---
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AeroplaneDriver

IIRC there was an artists imression from Westland back in the 80s or maybe early 90s for a two-seat gunship version of the Lynx.  Anyone else remember this or am I imagining things?

So I got that going for me...which is nice....