1:48 - Revell Huey-Hog and AH-1F Cobra Gunship

[MikeyKb]

mikey, im doing the huey as well i have reached the same point as you, the roof dos'nt fit the gaps are all over the place and nose is just well lets say out of place, i have put it to one side and i'm hoping that looking at it each day motivates me to tackle it again.
cobra looks good and is coming along nicley.
martin.

It was a real PITA! Especially after all the work I did on the interior. It stares at me daily and I think I'll wait until the Shelf of Doom GB to try my hand at it again.

Cheers, and thanks for looking in!

[Omi]

pita?????? i had the same idea but GB's are not really my thing so it may be there for awhile lol.

[MikeyKb]

PITA = Pain In The A$$

[Omi]

cool pinching that one

[MikeyKb]

Quick update, a (hopefully) fuller and better one will be next.

Decided to put down a based Tamiya Flat Black coat on the cockpit and do some pre-shading for tomorrow night.
I needed the inside of the cockpit to be black, so I covered up all the clear plastic first. Going to give it a nice coat of Model Masters Helo Drab tomorrow.




Scary!! EEEEKKKK!!

[LudvigN]

Nice build! The bird looks a bit tail-happy in the final 2 pics. Do you have any nose weights?

[MikeyKb]

Nice build! The bird looks a bit tail-happy in the final 2 pics. Do you have any nose weights?

Good observation... and no, I completely forgot too...and now it's quite tail happy.
My plans for this bird in a dio comprise of a camo net over it, so hopefully somewhere in that process I'll find a way to anchor it down properly (hopefully without having to glue or cement the model to the dio itself...)

Unless you have a suggestion for adding weight at this stage?

[LudvigN]

Lee talks about drilling and stuff in the tutorial for weights, might be an idea to check with him