Hi O,
Yes, that does help the next ECS hoses I make, thanks. What is always difficult was to replicate the raise wire band of the hose, and in a different color and always used the kit part, but always looked sloppy and not what the hose really looked like.
You are in luck if you build the single engine US Army Cobras and I can help untangle the spaghetti. I was a crew chief on all US Army models, except the G model and have all the manuals and tons of reference materials you can use including my own Army pictures. I took a lot knowing I wanted to build the models later in life. Except I don’t have a means to share pictures from a shared photo ap yet.
Most of the manuals are available for free on-line at liberatedmanuals.com and you can search for AH-1 and look for TM 55-1500-234 and -236 manuals and I can help point you to what you’re looking for. I predominantly build US Army Cobras, but as well have all the Marine Cobra versions in 1/72 and 1/48. I think I have about 45 total cobra kits, both Army and Marine versions. I evaluated each kit extensively to kit bash down to the S(Mod), round canopy, TOW version.
The Fujimi kit fuselage worked the best at the time as a base frame since the Revell has raised panel lines. Way too much sanding and rescribing, but you can steal many parts from it.
Special Hobby’s new 1/48 G released right when I was finishing up the S(Mod) which would have been a better choice to use. I’m actually in the final stages of their 1/48 G and 1/72 S(Mod) now, they incorrectly call the S(Mod) a Q though and lacks a lot of accuracies of that version. I’ve been e-mailing Special Hobby about it and they are interested in releasing a 1/48 S(Mod) in the future and a cowls open version with engine and transmission. I still have two more of their 1/48 Spanish Gs and 2 of their Hi-tech M-35 gun version kits to build and can wait to see if they release a S(mod).
On bench next is a 1/48 AH-1P and E.
Let me know if I can help if you do a S(Mod), P, E or F kit.
Thanks,
Tom