1/48 Westland WS-51 Dragonfly HR.3 Royal Navy

Description

This is an injection-plastic aircraft model kit.

The cockpit area alone comprises 39 plastic and photo etched parts spanning eleven busy panels. Add associated external components and capacious canopy, and Dragonfly’s “front office” should certainly satisfy discerning detail devotees. Quality of components is uniformly outstanding. Many parts sport a prototypical mix of beautifully executed raised and recessed scribing. AMP/Micro-Mir offers an impressive 1:48-scale Westland-Sikorsky Dragonfly HR.3/5 air-sea SAR variant with over 125 plastic parts on seven trees, aftermarket-quality extras, thorough instructions, and markings for five Commonwealth machines.

Crystal-clear canopy parts include a variant door options. And an equally impressive suite of aftermarket-quality details supplement styrene trees:

• One fret of 31 photoetch metal pieces
• One set of canopy painting masks
• Two cast-resin parts
• One clear-film instrument panel

The kit’s 42-item decal sheet includes insignia, serials, instrument panels, and a dozen or so tiny stencils. The final page and separate sheet include color and markings guides with explanatory notes for five subjects:

• Royal Navy Dragonfly HR.3 WN493, 1959
• Royal Australian Navy Dragonfly HR.3 WG725, museum display
• Royal Navy Dragonfly HR.5 WG719, museum display
• Royal Navy Dragonfly HR.3 WG723, 1955
• Royal Navy Dragonfly HR.5 WG724, museum display