1/48 Italeri Bell AB-212 / UH-1N
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I enjoyed this kit so so much, what a beautiful helicopter. As always it needed a few upgrades but those are what makes it individual and interesting.
I decided to do the Italian ISAF version that was used in Afghanistan.
I started out in the cockpit adding some seatbelts using chocolate foil wrapping (that was a nice treat) and I cut the buckles from plastic and painted them.
The instrument panels were pained and detailed up and the seats added inn, I dirtied up the main area's floor to show some heavy usage.
The seats in the main bay looked very empty and bland so I decided to do a little extra work and add in seatbelts to them as well using the same method, I then added some extras to add some detail like, wire coils, radio wires.
Then onto painting with black basing - adding the mottling with shades of grey, with reds and browns in the grey and yellow and greens in the green.
One detail I noticed on the helicopters that weren't present in the kit were the ring hooks beneath the helicopter. I wanted to find away to add them, and after a lot of trial and brain wracking I cut a plastic q-tip and found the perfect ring, glued it to a piece of plastic card and had the perfect hooks.
Then finishing off with decals, weathering and finishing touches. What a fun build. I absolutely loved it. You can follow the build log at imodeler.com/groups/..ic_page=1&num=15