Complete!

[RP1]

Greetings and salutations, fellow programs!

My first model (of recent years) complete!  Visual records available at:

http://photobucket.com/albums/y52/RP1/Aircraft/

The model is mountd on a GW flying base, with the tail wheel just touching the display surface.  Supposedly to achieve an action-packed stance, but really because it was easier than getting the model to balance on the stand.

And the backstory?  Errm.  The ABC (Advancing Blade Concept) is applied to an updated version of the AH-64, which is then exported to an unspecified Scandanavian customer, much to Kamov's annoyance.

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[The Rat]

TEEHEE! Great concept!

Now wheredja git that model? It looks just like one that my son got in a loot bag last year, if so I figure those things have to be ultra-cheap, under a dollar. Translation - lots of whiffing possibilities and spare parts! Unfortunately neither the box or the instructions held any hint as to the manufacturer.

[RP1]

The kit is by Revell.  It's an off-the-peg, as opposed to on-the-shelf type box.  the scale is 1 to whateverfitsinthebox, and there are several different kits.  Offhand, I can think of; AH-64, Mi-28, AH-64D, F-16, F-15, Tornado, Hindenburg (Zeppelin), the Airbus "Guppy". and F-117.  They cost £1.20 here, but that's from "Modelzone" (The pain, the pain!)  

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[K5054NZ]

I wanna see a bigger one! Please do it in 1:72!

[Brian da Basher]

That's really nice RP1! I like that lime green camo job a lot! Excellent work for 1/whateverbutsmall scale.

Brian da Basher

[Tophe]

As lovely as small: concentrated originality!
More than ever, I consider changing my favourite from 1/72 to 1/144, while the details-lovers prefer 1/48 or above, I understand.

[Svaz]

Cool - A Kamov AH-64.    

[noxioux]

That looks great all finished up.  Very cool idea.  This is one that we must see in 1/48, detailed out the nuts.  

[Davey B]

ohhh, that is just too cool!  Nice one      

[Captain Canada]

That is a cool little bird....neat idea !

 

[Joe C-P]

Oddly enough, it seems to work. Perhaps a design team from Kamov is hired by Sikorsky post Cold War...

At a pound and a quarter, one could do many, many what-ifs, and quickly.   I wonder they're around here; could do a couple RN Tornados.

JoeP

[retro_seventies]

great!

must try and track some of these down myself - could be fun!