John Lanning of IPMS Fort Crook in-box reviews LF Model's brand new 1/72 Westland Wasp

[@Flingwing24]

Hi Chap. I served with (and still work with) the Scout, and occasionally the Wasp. This is an interesting one. Odd in both cases there are no weapons. Of the 160 Scouts we had, only 10 or so never had the capability for the SS11. Either way there was/is a panel that covers where the AF120 sight goes. The WASP also carried the WE177 nuclear depth charge. I have regular close contact with the Scout and yeah, the accuracy on these is much better than the old airfix cab and the airgraphics engines. One obvious error is that the front of the oil cooler (looks like a long hair drier left of nimbus) is bullet shaped however, on the real cab, it had a large inboard facing exhaust. The rotor heads on these are fully articulated so the gap between tip and boom is approx 12" Nice one. Now 1:48 would be nice.

[@mh53j]

The Aztec sheet (72-048) has markings for 3 Wasps from the Falklands War, all involved in the attack on the Samta Fe: XS 539 from HMS Endurance and XT 429/445 from HMS Plymouth. Trying to determine if the sight parts are included with the Scout as well.

[@jaws848]

Strange Airfix never did it considering they did ALL of the other helicopters in uk military service at the time

[@gbmodels7790]

Nice kit just subscribed to you

[@jaws848]

When you showed the box at the start of the video you called it a westland Lynx.lol.🤪🤪

[@Johnopfor]

Yeah, I saw that and thought "Crap, too late"....😃