Dragon MH-60L

Malte D
Sehr schön - ich bin gespannt, was du daraus tolles zauberst, der Bausatz ist ja eine tolle Ausgangsbasis für den Maßstab!

ice
Der Bausatz ist wirklich super. Passt alles 1A und Spachteln musste ich nur etwas and der Nahht auf den Triebwerken und die Längsnaht unter dem Heli war auch etwas weiter. Wenn man den Innenraum ignoriert, ist das was Feines für zwischendurch.

ice
Last sanding, base colour and post-shading done. Next stop future....
I used Tamya NATO black with 20% white as base colour and added more and more white in the different layers of the post-shading-process. Never done post-shading before and neverever in 1/144.

Edgars Bizūns
Looking good! Those heavy panel lines could be reduced a bit tought..

Christian Ristits
1:144? You are kidding man!

ice
@Edgar: Thank you - let's see how much is left of the panel lines after Future, washing and matt cote.
@Christian: No kidding. I added a picture just for you. 🙂

Christian Ristits
Amazing, so tiny!

Björn Leichsenring
Mann, Mann, Mann. Du bringst mich noch dazu, meine Bausätze au anzufangen. Sehr schön lackiert bisher.

Edgars Bizūns
@Christian that's the best scale there is..😉

ice
@Edgar: I like 1:72 a lot more but 1:144 is nice for a small build in between some "big ones".😉
@Björn: Tu es!😉
Today I started painting the smaller details and added some more details to the main rotor.

Malte D
Sieht schon sehr schnuckelig aus. 🙂

Edgars Bizūns
Yes, yes, but still, 1/144 is a great scale.. 🙂
Very nice rotor cables!

ice
The rotor was painted using different shades of Tamiya XF-1. I didn't wanted to use NATO black to give the model a little bit more life.

Christian Bruer
👍 very nice work so far

ice
Thank you!
Next steps were made. The metal edges of the rotor blades were painted, future applied and the decals are in place. Those were the smallest decals I ever used. For example: the tail-number is composed of 5 single numerals and on every inlet-cone are 2 small "no steps" decals.
Of course now the contrast of the decals is way too high so I'll have to apply a filter of highly dilluted paint. I'm not sure, which colour I'm going to use.

Malte D
Wow, sieht gut aus. Die Decals sind ja wirklich extrem hell. Da kannst du ja fast Mattschwarz in den abschließenden Klarlack 'reinmischen.

ice
I used a blackish brown for the wash and filtered with highly diluted TAMIYA black with a little bit white in it. for matt cote I used Xtracrylix flat varnish and I always love the moment when I can remove the masks from the model.

Björn Leichsenring
Einfach nur Geil. Was du hier lackiertechnisch herausgeholt hast.

Malte D
Ist klasse geworden! 🙂

Christian Bruer
👍

Bernhard Pethe
👍

Vitor Hugo Sousa
1/144??? Wow... Really Cool

ice
Thank you so much.
The build isn't on hold but time is always short and the last hours were used to build new flare dispensers from scratch (see pic 19). Dragon only offers one per helicopter so I had to build additional ones anyway.
I used styrene, wire and some leftovers from the pe-box. For the angled flare dispensers I need 6 pe parts per dispenser (3 on each side) and I didn't finally decide how to build the other ones. On my reference pictures there are 4 flare dispensers per helicopter: [img1]

Andy W.
Der sieht ja mal klasse aus. Sehr schönes weathering, schön gemacht, Top.

ice
@Andy: Danke dir - Rollout kommt bald.

Flare dispensers and antenna on the tail in place.

Paul Tomczak
Remarkable work on such a small kit. Awesome!

ice
That's it. ALQ-144 was done by wrapping it in aluminum with tiny parallel scratches on it. Now I'm waiting for the weekend and nice weatcher to take the rollout-pictures. Thank you all for your kind comments.

Andy W.
Da bin ich ja mal gespannt auf die Bilder bei Tageslicht. Ich hab quasi den großen Bruder von deinem vor ner Weile fertig gestellt 😉 Sikorsky AH-60L DAP Blackhawk | Project by Babbsack (1:35)

soheil moghisi
Very nice.

ice
Done. Sun was shining and pictures were made. Enjoy! 🙂

Andy W.
Ich kann mich nur wiederholen. Absolut saubere Arbeit.