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Academy Hughes 500MD FINISHED!

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  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: NW Washington
Academy Hughes 500MD FINISHED!
Posted by dirkpitt77 on Sunday, April 24, 2011 7:55 PM

  I've had a bad habit lately of doing every build in custom livery, and this one was no different.  This is my first helicopter build in probably 15 years, and was a nice departure.  This is Academy's 1/48 Hughes 500MD ASW kit built in kind of a "what if" livery for a NUMA (National Underwater Marine Agency) chopper from Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels.    I've been a fan of  his since forever and I wanted to pay tribute by building a NUMA vehicle.

 

   I decanted some Krylon Sea Foam color paint for the paint job, and printed my own decals for the insignia and NUMA markings.  Other markings came from the kit or the spares box.  I stole figures from the Revellogram P-61 kit for it and made some duffle bags out of Milliput.  Also went to town on a helipad for it, which turned out ok, but the surface peeled up on one side and gave me fits, which you'll see in the pics.  All in all though, a fun build.

 

 

 

Got a little too much tilt on the rotor head, I think.  Might need to fix that, depending on how much it annoys me:

 

Here you can see the "concrete" peeling up.  I used drywall joint compound.  Not sure I'll do that again:

 

 

 

        Yeah, I'm gonna have to fix those rotors.  Oh well.  Think I'll shelve it for now.  Beer

    "Some say the alien didn't die in the crash.  It survived and drank whiskey and played poker with the locals 'til the Texas Rangers caught wind of it and shot it dead."

  • Member since
    February 2011
  • From: San Antonio
Posted by MAJ Mike on Monday, April 25, 2011 9:20 AM

Beautiful!!

For a future build, how about the stern-wheeler steam boat from The Deep Six.  The shoot out between the Civil War reenactors and the mercs is my absolute favorite sequence in fiction.

 

 

 "I'd "I'd rather be historically accurate than politically correct."

"Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc!"

  • Member since
    April 2015
Posted by spadx111 on Monday, April 25, 2011 1:15 PM

Great job loved the pics.

Ron

  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: NW Washington
Posted by dirkpitt77 on Monday, April 25, 2011 3:21 PM

Major Mike, I don't remember what book it was in, but the steamer that was found buried so that only the tops of its stacks stuck out of the ground and were used as flower pots or something?  I always thought about doing a diorama of that scene.  Also have wanted to build a NUMA deep submersible, but not sure my scratching skills are up to that yet.  We'll see.  Thanks for the kudos! 

    "Some say the alien didn't die in the crash.  It survived and drank whiskey and played poker with the locals 'til the Texas Rangers caught wind of it and shot it dead."

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