Tinkering with seats and tail rotors...
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Burkhard DThank you, guys. Next up are the TADS/PNVS turrets, the main rotor, and the tail boom close-out bulkhead with the tail landing gear.
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Airframe is repainted, decaled and sealed with (almost) matte cote, subtle weathering will be done with pastel chalks at a later stage.
Added seat cushions made from the aluminum lid of a cheese tub that had just the right texture. Seat belts were added from thick soft metal foil I found wrapped around the neck of bottle of wine.
The original tail rotor was replaced with one from a more recent kit better resembling the Apache tail rotor which is made of two teetering rotors stacked one atop the other. I Scratchbuilt the swashplate, pitch link rods, and the swashplate actuator assembly which is scabbed onto the tail rotor pylon.
I had done the main rotor gearbox and rotor control assembly back in the 80s. The swashplate is part of the main rotor assembly which is capable of turning within the ring. I think I used an Airfix F-4J nozzle as the main gearbox housing, but it can't be seen on the finished model anyway.
