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Gerald
Hello Welcome here 😉

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 😉

bughunter
Great handling of "50 shades of gray" 👍

John
Thanks bughunter! I should also add the molded on seatbelts Revell provided are not the best, but I got a case of the lazies and didn't replace them all with tape. To be fair,there are nine seats.

Mr D
Shaded well 👌 nice kit.

John
Thanks Mr D, this one is almost done. It's been a beast to finish.

J35J
Totally missed this one until now. Really great build, paintwork and weathering 👍🏻👏🏼

Guy Rump
Great job! 👍

John
Thanks J35J & Guy! 👍

bughunter
Yes, nice result! At least the four rotor blade markings are colorful 😉

Qwertzel
Looking great! I'm still struggeling with the paint on mine. Verry good job!

John
Struggling how, with the dreaded yellow paint and lack of coverage?

Qwertzel
Jup, I will try to use a white primer instead of a light grey. I also want all doors open and dont know how to protect the interiour

Sy Bar
A builds of firsts, my first Helicopter and first use of 3D decals. Turns out the kit was originally a HobbyBoss kit and looks great nice details and combination of fine panel lines and rivets where need, I have high hopes for this build. 🤞

Villiers de Vos
Coming along nicely. That 3D interior set looks beautiful.

Sy Bar
Cheers #Villiers, the 3d decals are fantastic and really elevate the tubs to a new level.

First real issue with the kit is the fit of the main body, it does not want to join easily and I can find a cause but most can be fixed by gluing a small section at a time and working down the body.
However the bottom section is far too narrow for the kit bottom part, creating large hangovers. This may suggest the bandy has a warp in it but this is modelling not assembly.
I've added a stretcher of sprue to force the side apart hopefully this will help and not cause more issues later.

Sy Bar
Another sort of issue although a little troublesome rather than true issue.
The instruction contain a couple of templates for both inner and outer glass masks (a great idea I wish more kits had). However they are way under scale, I resorted to old skool and used Tamiya tape and fresh blade with bright light behind (phone light 😁) and cut my own.
While right this it occurs to me they may be 1/72 scale and were not rescaled to 1/48 will check later.

Jens J.
It was not a Hobbyboss kit. It was a Special Hobby kit.

Sy Bar
Great spot #Jens J it is indeed Special Hobby plastic, my apologies to both Special Hobby and HobbyBoss for the confusion.
Just completed a HobbyBoss and had them on my mind, this would be an excuse if the sprues where not so well labeled and on the Quinta 3D decals 🤪

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress. Your attention to detail will pay off.

Johan van Meerloo
Thank you! Will be hard with the old kit though.

Nicolas
I build both kits in the past. Intrested too see what you can do with it.

Johan van Meerloo
both are interesting, this one is total crap but will try to make the best of it

Robert Podkoński
Good job so far, Johan!

Johan van Meerloo
for the crap kit it is, its going on quite okay now with some colour on it at least, hopefully the cannopy wont ruin it all due to the bad kit

Robert Podkoński
Good job so far, Johan. Keep it up! (and do not mix the parts from both kits 😉

Nicolas
Good start. Following

Johan van Meerloo
awesome, its to compare the new and old revell kits

Finn
Interesting, will follow

Johan van Meerloo
I got a second one this one will be green

Carlo
Going to follow this one.

Johan van Meerloo
awesome

Villiers de Vos
Off to a good start.

Mirko Römer
Following!

Ekki
I'm in too.

Gary Kitchen
Following too. Got one in the stash. Good start so far Johan 👍

Johan van Meerloo
this is 1 of 2 🙂 its a fun kit not very special part wise but something different and cool looking

Nicolas
I'll take a seat.

Johan van Meerloo
yeah me too
still figuring out how to build this one up, will I scratchbuild some interior,
it will be part of my vietnam dioramas