Knighthawk

Spanjaard
nice start

Daniel
thanks spanjaard, hope I can keep up the momentum (not the "weekend edition" this one 😉 )

Adam Gudynowski
Nice

Robin (WhiteGlint)
👀

Neil
Me too 👀

Daniel
Some more modifications done!

Welcome to the chopper show Adam, WhiteGlint and Neil!

Daniel
finished the basic interior painting, now some weathering and then add some bits and pieces to it

Casey Rupley
The detail is stunning! Well done so far, Daniel.

Daniel
Thanks Casey! (just been blown away by your panther wip)

Eric Thornton
Oh very nice, following

Konrad -
Damn! How cool is that! Awesome work so far Daniel! Looking forward to your next steps!

Harry Eder
Fine interior! 👍

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Nice interior. 👍

Dietmar Bogatzki
Stunning details Daniel 👍

Daniel
Eric, Konrad, Harry WhiteGlint and Dietmar, thank you for your nice comments and welcome!

mini-update: sculpted some cabin accessoires from milliput

Spanjaard
They look quite good

Casey Rupley
Daniel, dude! Great scuplting skills. Contemplated something similar for my Panther, but bailed on the idea. Youre killing it. Looking forward to more.

Daniel
Spanjaard and Casey, thanks again mates 🙂
Casey, in 1:35 everything is easier, I guess I would have shied away from it in 1:48 as well, so my respects to what you are achieving in that scale! 👍

Daniel
last shots of the interior before the main body comes together (hopefully, heard people have had fit problems there )

René
Great model! I've build the trumpeter version that came without all the folding options. This one seems much better.

Dietmar Bogatzki
Great sculpting skills Daniel 👍

Villiers de Vos
The interior is looking very good.

Patryk S.
Following! Great outcome so far!

Daniel
Many thanks Rene, Dietmar, Villiers and Patryk and welcome all!

@ Rene: you mean the academy kit? Was a hard choice paying double price for this one🙈 ...and I was expecting much less need for scratch building for it...well, the Sea Hawk series and the black/pavehawk by KH seem to be much more accurate and maybe worth all the money, this ones just a hybrid of both kits with a lot of typical stuff missing. This also really shows if you look at the instructions, total mess...many mistakes in the decals as well sadly

@dietmar: it's ok for my first time working with epoxy putty, but I just watched some videos of a japanese guy sculpting photorealistic stuff in 1:72 with just a toothpick as a tool and now this looks more like play-doh "art" to me😅

Daniel
got this mother glued together

Michael Kohl
that is my kind of build

Daniel
👍 make yourself comfortable michael! (might take a bit longer...)

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Oh nice. Looks like the fit was not so bad as you feared at first.

Daniel
several lightyears away from tamiya, but I've also had much worse on my table^^

Daniel
lol, there might be some similarities, but I can say it fits better than revells 1:32 hornet 😄
But I wouldnt have managed without using super-glued bridges here and there to keep up the tension while the plastic glue dries...
thanks roland!

Dietmar Bogatzki
I will use your building as reference when i built my AH 60 👍

Daniel
its prime-time! got around the construction of the fuselage so far, and starting primer now the doors and motor hatches are just glued with blue tack for later treatment.
Thanks Dietmar, I added some more things now where the kit seems wrong or lacking stuff

Zach Wilson
Looking good so far

Bart Goesaert
Splendid work so far on this beasty...

Daniel
thanks a lot Zach, I recently admired your R-model, real stunner! 👍
thank you Bart, the hairy parts are yet to come (Rotor head and engine compartment...and bending the PE-Ammo-feeders...)

Daniel
primered as promised and preshaded as well

James C
Looking good 👍

Guy Rump
Agree with James 👍

Daniel
Thank you James and Guy!

Productive afternoon: Got the main colors down
FS36495 on the belly, followed by FS36320 that I lightened up heavily (so more in the direction of light ghost gray) and FS35237 on the upper areas, also ligthtened to nearly look as the other gray. You maybe still see the subtle transition diagonal across the engine doors.
The light blue is a custom mix of three vallejos and the dark blue is vallejos signal blue FS35044. I will tweak the transition to the gray a bit after the decals with white and light blue.

Konrad -
Looking very very nice!

Mark Kane
My god, that's both dedication and talent. Pure modelling gorgeousness. Keep it up! Wow

Daniel
Konrad and Marek, thanks a lot mates. I feared that this model will be .. ehm .. dedication-intensive 😅
Speaking of, I am currently bending the PE 50 cal ammo feeders. Or trying to... its a true nightmare 😪
Thank you for the encouragement!

Updates >pic 64

Bruce Huxtable
Are there no limits to your skills? Loved the handmade luggage 👍

Guillaume Blanchet
Very impressive. I'like the amount of details

Daniel
Thank you very much bruce and guillaume! yeah, you could tinker on forever on this one I guess, theres just a lot going on on a helo compared to the usual jet.
And there still are the engines and the rotor head on the horizon...

Guillaume Blanchet
One thing I like about the current military helicopters is that they have received a tons of add-ons over the years of service. They went from a slick aircraft with the ''A'' version (usually dating from the 70's) into a mess of utilitarian secondary systems (like overs sized engines, extra winchs, radar etc.) in there current form. That makes them very good subject to details builds.

Daniel
true, and a nightmare for research and scratchbuild improvistation 😅

Rui S
What and impressive detailling work and paintjob. Great stuff 👍

Daniel
Thank you Rui!

Daniel Klink
That is looking awesomely cool Daniel

Daniel
Got the wash down, a step I always like as it adds a lot of life to the model.
I used abteilungs "starship filth" oil for the first time, really happy with that, I think its the perfect wash for navy models as it has just the right balance of black/green/brown and does not add too much brown as many washes do

Konrad -
Stunning progress an this chopper! 👍!

Dietmar Bogatzki
Impressive building and detailing, hope my AH 60 will be only as half so good 👍

Sergej I
what a nice journey 👍 and great model making

Neil
Agreed. WOW! Daniel this is so accomplished - very much enjoyed the album, great detail throughout. Just awesome work 👍 🙂

Eric Thornton
Awesome coming together nicely.

Ryan Jones
Fantastic work, every little detail. Hats off!

Daniel
Daniel, Konrad, Roland, Dietmar, Sergej, Neil, Eric and Ryan: Thank you very much for your kind comments!🙏 This is indeed quite a journey and a challenging one. And not about to be finished soon, still some peaks ahead. But always a pleasure to share some steps with you here 🙂 👍

Jos Jansen
What a details...what a dedication to modeling, superb work mate!

Daniel
Thanks a bunch jos! yeah, being my first cargo heli I can now see why our scratchbuild-gurus like bernhard and ronan love this topic.
Still love to work on it, but I am really not made for half year long projects and I catch myself eying the jet stash next to me more frequently...Not this year.^^

So today I semi-matt coated it which I always like as it makes the wash-effect "pop".
Aaaand then I tried my new ammo shaders. First I thought they were absolute rubbish, then I experimented, got the hang of it and now I think I need to add another layer to my usual weathering routine. Good stuff!

Konrad -
That looks to cool! Like all those details and this heavy gun😬!

Daniel
Thanks Konrad, honestly I got sold on this kit just because they had this big bad gatling on the cover 🙂 Still the same buy-it-triggers as 15 years ago^^

Konrad -
Ahhh understood 🙂!! Those things will never change (hopefully) LoL!

Daniel
into the turbine wiring now, there are a lot of them, I will try to replicate the bigger ones 😅

Dietmar Bogatzki
Great job on the turbines, daniel 👍

Villiers de Vos
I agree with Dietmar. To my eye, the turbines came out very good.

Neil
Daniel, this is an educational and entertaining build story to keep coming back to. I'm in awe of your work here. To me it looks both realistic and awesome! Very cool chopper! 😎

Daniel
Dietmar, Villiers and Neil, thank you for your very kind words!🙏🏻 I wish you and everyone else around a very merry christmas and many new kits under the tree 😉
Calling the engine bays done now on to the next stage, small steps but we're getting there🙂

David Taylor
One hell of a build.

Daniel
Thx David, yeah I feared that it would take a lot of time and dedication 😅

Finished the rotor head construction, I repeat above said 🙂
Though the kit rotor head is pretty good and detailed you have to watch out and re-check everything with photos, there are multiple mistakes, biggest being one pitch actuator arm molded on one side on the upper half and on the other side on the lower part to be glued... I again harvested the included pavehawk parts to get the correct counterpart 🙂

Spanjaard
Beautiful rotorhead

Jos Jansen
I love picture 91...absolutely great, man what a awesome build. You're a top notch model builder my friend...👍.

Villiers de Vos
Great attention to detail.

Lillo
Amazing job !!

Guy Rump
Great modelling 👍

Daniel
Spanjaard, Jos, Villiers, Lillo and Guy, thanks, you guys are far to kind, looks quite crude next to some rotor heads I have seen here in 1:72 😅 But appreciate it!

Yeah, pic 91 is by far the coolest in my reference collection and very inspirational, I am thinking of maybe adding some crew as well.

I have now painted the whole thing and will carefully apply some pin wash tomorrow, will update then. Cheers and thanks for watching🙂

Olivier
Again, another world kit ! Impressive to say the least...

Daniel
Very kind Olivier, thanks a lot🙏🏻

Rotorhead painted and washed, on to the blades

Konrad -
I don't know the word for more impressive… Anyhow it is more than impressive 🤘🏼.
Happy New Year to all of you!
See ya next year🤘🏼

David Taylor
As previous,one hell of a build.HNY

Daniel
Big thank you Konrad and David, Happy New Year mates!

Bart Goesaert
Happy New year to all off you too. Fantastic piece of modelling

Tommy Agne
Outstanding 👍👍👍!

Neuling
A masterpiece.

Sy Bar
Outstanding

Michael Kohl
Now that's what I call a rotor head.

Daniel
Bart, Tommy, Neuling and Sy, thank you for your nice comments 🙏

As promised the blades are painted, weathered and its basically just small steps to the finished helo.
But still a lot of them ... antennas, radomes, pitots, struts to different parts, different lights, RWR and missile warning sensors, little climb-up-the-tail steps. also I need to sculpt a 20mm ammo feed (its wrapped in a nylon sleeve)...more weathering... journey continues

Daniel
And thank you Michael!

Dietmar Bogatzki
A Masterpiece 👍

Tino Delgado
OMG!! This is Outstanding, a true piece of art in miniature!! Thank you for sharing with us all those gorgeous photos... keep them coming!!

Daniel
Dietmar and Tino, thank you guys, I am very happy you enjoy this build doc! (though it got pretty long...)

Update on the FLIR pod

Konrad -
OUTSTANDING!

Neil
Hi Daniel, this is an album that deserves a long build log imo. It's a pleasure to follow when the update pops up. I am highly impressed 👍 it's awe inspiring work. 🙂

Daniel
Another alien looking update! 😉

Konrad, Neil, very kind, I am glad you enjoy!

Robin (WhiteGlint)
It's fun to watch and great to see what can be done with a kit when you put in the extra effort.

Keep it up, Daniel. 👍

Daniel
Alright, finished the small stuff and this journey is complete:
MH-60S HSC-6 Screamin' Indians | Album by halohead (1:35)
Feels good to finally have beaten it!
Many thanks for joining in, commenting and liking, really appreciate it!