Wayne ***, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
With the help of a resin conversion set from Floyd Werner, Academy’s 1/48 scale chopper serves Wayne as an OH-58D Kiowa of the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade in Iraq. Wayne says, “I gave it a heavy weathering treatment of sand collecting around the airframe by using powdered pigments from Tamiya’s Weathering Master set. I made many scratchbuilt parts for the cockpit and engine bay, and an FOD cover for the engine exhaust opening.”