AH-64A Hellenic Army
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The pilot looks funny.
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Main landing gear bits added.
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Landing gear detail added.
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Upper fuselage bits and pieces added.
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Various antennas.
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Main rotor detail.
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Base for chaff and flare dispenser.
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30mm gun.
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30mm gun transformed.
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30mm gun transformed.
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30mm gun transformed.
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Rotor test fitting
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Electrooptics
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It looks like an Apache
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It looks like an Apache
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Masking tape residue!
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Ready for the paint job
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General view of the belly of the beast
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Antennas
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Tail
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Exhaust support
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First step: prelighting
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Step 2: Preshading part 1
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Step 3: Preshading part 2
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Base colour: first pass
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Finally, ready for the gloss varnish!
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Glossed and decaled.
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The white area around the tail decal will be corrected with a gloss varnish.
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The number cracked, but there are some black decals left to remedy the problem.
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Some silvering that apeared will be corrected.
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Masking the wings
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Stenciling faded
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Stenciling faded
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Stenciling faded
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Matt varnish
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Matt varnish
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A dark-ish one
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External fuel tank from scratch
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Painted fuel tank
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Parts for the "discolight"
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"Discolight" ready
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Wiring at the gun
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The loads
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Tail rotor details
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Finished!
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Finished!
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Finished!
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Head on!
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Komentáře
2 15 November 2015, 18:29
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I decided to give this chopper another go. So the first thing was to check how the masking tape would fare after 5 years in waiting. Well as you can see in my last poto, it didn't fare well. The glue of the masking tape dried and decided to attach to the canopy rather than stay put with the tape. Nothing that good old isopropyl alcohon can't handle. About a quarter later and some earbuds the canopy was clear.
Since then I attached some bits and pieces here and there, snapped off some other bits and pieces and now it's time again to mask the canopy and proceed with the paint job. The colour will be FS34031.
14 February 2016, 19:09
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I managed to paint the beast.
- First step: prelighting with Humbrol 148 Radome Tan
- Second step: preshading in larger areas with Humbrol 30 Dark Green
- Third step: preshading with Humbrol 33 Flat Black
Then I applied the base colour FS34031 using Model Master 2024 US Army Helo Drab.
It still needs some correcting here and there. After that I might try some postlighting.
Comments and recomendations are welcome.
12 April 2016, 21:19
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Thanks Christian! I am flattered, considering the gems you create. That MiG-31BM is great with all it's weathering.
20 May 2016, 19:51
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Done with the corrections. My postlighting is barely noticeable. Ready for the glosh varnish.
18 July 2016, 23:02
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Decaled. I had real trouble with silvering and despite my efforts it still appears in some places like the tail decal. I used tons of Micro Sol which really helped. For example the tail numbers even with a lot of gloss varnish, they exhibited more than 50% silvering. I thought it would be a disaster and was kind of disappointed.
Micro Sol is a rather strong agent, and if used abundantly it reacts with the gloss varnish (Humbrol Clear) and creates some nasty white areas (as you can see on the tail). It is corrected by applying more Humbrol Clear after the decals have properly dried.
Pin wash coming up next and then I will probably spray extra thinned paint over some of the stencils to dim them out. The stencils on the greek Model A Apaches are barely visible.
20 September 2016, 06:38
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Stencils dimmed out and I applied the first coat of matt varnish. I think it's OK, but it might need another coat.
6 November 2016, 19:41
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Finished! Almost 20 years after I started it (I didn't work on it all this time, though). All the bits and pieces were put in place and I snapped a few photos of the complete thing waiting for the weather to clear up and take some better ones.
One thing is for sure, it will be a long-long time before I tackle an Apache again. I snapped all of the antennas at least one time.
All comments are welcome.
15 January 2017, 21:21
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Wow, that is a beautiful Apache Maciej! The paintwork is very nicely done, and the bright blue Greek markings really look cool against the dark green of the base paint.
It is really cool to see such a long term project completed. 20 years is crazy!
16 January 2017, 00:08
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really nice. took some time😉, but nice result. i have some models waiting to be finished for similar amount of years 😄 but right now, that i am back on modeling after quite a few years break, i feel more like doing new ones, got a few in the stash 😛
16 January 2017, 00:32
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Thank you Michael. Yeah, 20 years is crazy, and I have another one that I started somewhere around back then.
Thank you Spanjaard. It took about half my life! I will sure do some new ones, the only thing is that the new ones tend to become old ones, as I model about once a week for about 2-3 hours or so. Hahaha.
I am glad you like it. It's a nice addition to my display case.
16 January 2017, 20:00
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the problem for me is also the stash keep growing over the years, at the current speed, i may need to live until 100 to finish then all (stash not that big, but i am a slow builder 😛)
16 January 2017, 20:06
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Hehe, if I up my rate to 3 kits per year, I still need 13 years to use up my stash, provided that I don't buy anything.
16 January 2017, 20:56
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sure, you will not buy anything in 13 years.... 😄
yes, that is what we all tell to ourselves....😉
16 January 2017, 22:19
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Thank you Łukasz! It was an interesting build. Lots of additions to make it a decent looking AH-64A.
The final photos have been added.
Now back to Łukasz's favourite scale, with two unfinished kits on the bench.
24 January 2017, 20:49