Glencoe Piasecki Flying Jeep

[JC Carbonel]

Glencoe is reintroducing the Ptasecki kit so I took the opportunity to whiff it :


for those who want the full build article (in French but with lot of pix)
Glencoe 1/35 Flying Geep

JCC

[Mossie]

Lovely work JC!  That arctic cam is inspired, as is the conversion work on the crew!  You've done a very good rubber effect on the bumper/fenders, how did you go about it?



Simon.

PS, watch out for Martin, he'll be after it for the Viff Whiff!

[Jeffry Fontaine]

The winter camouflage looks great!  Any idea what to do with those horrible little green soldiers that were included in the kit?  I found the plastic to be too soft for any modeling purposes, and gave all of them to my nephew's children to play with.    

I just took a few of those Air Geep kits into protective custody about a month or so back, was quite happy with the acquisition and figured it would be enough for a couple of WHIF Air Geep concepts using parts from the Tamiya M151 MUTT kits to get some decent commo gear mounted on one and make it a command vehicle.  I had hoped to make at least one weapons carrier that would mount a TOW missile system and another to be kitted up as a scout vehicle for the Cavalry.  The reissue is indeed good news and I will hopefully be able to acquire a few more of these little gems.  Odd that they have decided to release the kit again, I had actually eMailed the company about two months ago asking what the cost would be with shipping for a case of those kits.  Guess I was not the only one that was asking for the kit.

[JC Carbonel]

THanks for the comments. The rubber effect is actually just toned down black (with about 10% of grey and brown) which after drying was rubbed with a finger for a semi-mat effect.

I had thought of putting the 105mm recoiless gun left over from Dragon's Mule but I could not relocate the insructions (!!) silly of me eh ?

JCC

[jcf]

Needs a FLIR pod and a TOW.  :ar:


Cheers, Jon

[ysi_maniac]

A real wonder. Love the subject    
Perfect execution with nice crew          

[Joe C-P]

A side-mounted fixed forward-pointing .50 cal mg would look nice, and maybe a pintle-mounted LMG for the co-pilot.

JoeP

[BlackOps]

Really nice job! The winter camo is great and I agree the rubber is nicely done  

[Radish]

What a cracker!!

I love it.....and it's got me thinking again  

[Weaver]

Thread revival (but why not?):

Here's a video of the prototype actually carrying an RR:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SERvwWALOM