Wah-66 Comanche Ah.1

[AeroplaneDriver]

The story of how the Comanche entered service with the British Army is in my build thread below.

This particular Comanche, ZX190 was delivered to the Army Air Corps in June 2009, entering service with 654 Squadron at Dishforth.  

The Comanche pilots expected to deploy to Afghanistan in short order, but world events led to a very different duty.  Backed by an increasingly beligerent Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and motivated by vast oil reserves surrounding the islands, Argentina began vigorously asserting its claim the the Islas Malvinas-the Falkland Islands.

To counter the Argentine threat Britain reinforced the island garrison with an additional 600 troops, additional artillery and armor, four additional Tornado F.3s,  6 Typhoon F.2s, and 6 Comanche AH.1s.

This Comanche iis caught on a low altitude patrol flight along the coast of West Falkland in October 2010.  It carries a typical light load of four Hellfire AGMs on the stub wings and two Stinger AAMs on the wingtips as well as 750 rounds for the 20mm cannon.  For this flight the internal weapons bays are fitted with fuel tanks, extending the endurance of the helicopter.










It's not my best build, but for a quickie build of a less-than-perfect kit I'm pretty happy with it.  

[nev]

what's that Kylie song?  "You did it again...."

B)

[lancer]

That is one seriously gorgeous looking build AD. Brilliant backstory as well.

Certainly looks better than that god awful Crapache!!!!

[Mike Wren]

very nice, the Comanche looks so much better in flight - love the little detail of the rotated cannon turret    

[Captain Canada]

Great work, Nick ! She does look good in flight, doesn't she ! I really like the pic from the side, shows off the beautiful lines of the bird.

 

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

"Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout, right there, Ohhh yeah !"

Sorry, just slipped into some sort of street-speak for a moment, ahem....  Jolly fine model you have there Nick !

Ian

[kitnut617]

That's brilliant    I guess I'll hang on to the one I've got now, you've given me an idea.

Robert

[Brian da Basher]

That cannon is the bee's knees, AD! Excellent work!

Brian da Basher

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Well Done!  Nice and subtle like a WHIF should be.

[GTX]

I'm really liking your in-flight representations - we need to see more like this.

Regards,

Greg

[dragon]

Backed by an increasingly beligerent Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and motivated by vast oil reserves surrounding the islands, Argentina began vigorously asserting its claim the the Islas Malvinas-the Falkland Islands.

To counter the Argentine threat Britain reinforced the island garrison with an additional 600 troops, additional artillery and armor, four additional Tornado F.3s,  6 Typhoon F.2s,

Could still happen ...You'd better return that Crystal ball to its rightful owner before they get angry and turn you into a toad or something.   B)  

[BlackOps]

She's a real looker that one is    

[McGreig]

I've never been a great fan of wheels up models, but you're converting me - looks wonderful     and I like the display method    

[anthonyp]

That's beautiful, AD!  Very nice!      

[ysi_maniac]

Beautiful, indeed.
I love Comanche