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                        AH-1W color, weapons questions

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        AH-1W color, weapons questions
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 10:30 PM
                        All,
                        I'm slowly getting started on Italeri's 1/72 scale AH-1W as my third model after a long break. I would like to do a Desert Storm aircraft, but am having trouble finding photos of what I want to model. I swear that FSM published a photo back in the day (years ago now) of a line of USMC AH-1Ws in ghost gray and sand (the sand covered the green and black in the then-current camouflage). Is my memory faulty, or is this true? If so, where might I find some photos?
                        Is there a commercially available acrylic paint that matches the sand color? If not, does anyone have a recipe?
                        Finally, the 'Hellfire' missiles in the kit don't look right at all to me-they are slender with tapered noses, whereas all the photos I've seen of Hellfires look cylindrical with blunt, hemispherical noses. Is there a cheap kit out there I could buy for accurate missiles?

                        Thanks in advance for the help,

                        Rick
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                        HeavyArty
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Valrico, FL
                        Posted by HeavyArty on Friday, June 18, 2004 11:00 PM
                        Yes, the color scheme you describe was used. I did mine that way too, I think, based off the same article. I don't know of an acrylic match for the sand, but I used Testors Model Master Sand enamel and it matches what I have seen.
                        Check here for a bunch of posts related to the AH-1W. http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/search.asp?search=AH-1W&forum=f16&s_id=0&mode=DoIt

                        As for the Hellfires, they look accurate to me. I went with the kit ones and they turned out great.
                        Here is my version, sandwiched between a 1/32 Revell OH-58A/C and a Israeli AH-1W ( Yeah, I know they don't use this version, but I like the look of it):



                        Hope this helps.

                        Gino P. Quintiliani - Field Artillery - The KING of BATTLE!!!

                        Check out my Gallery: https://app.photobucket.com/u/HeavyArty

                        "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell

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                        albymoore
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                          December 2002
                        • From: Tip O' da Mitt (Northern Michigan)
                        Posted by albymoore on Saturday, June 19, 2004 6:21 AM
                        You could also use the Hellfires from Academy's 1/72nd AH-64A Apache kit. It comes with sixteen of them, so you rob half of them for your Cobra and still have enough for the Apache's load-out (operationally the Apache carries only eight Hellfires, along with two 2.75" FFAR pods).

                        Here's a 1/72nd Italeri OH-58D I built, with the Academy's Hellfires







                        HTH,
                        Albert Clown [:o)]

                        "I know what it wants now...the void has swallowed the light and the machine wants my soul"

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                        HeavyArty
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Valrico, FL
                        Posted by HeavyArty on Saturday, June 19, 2004 2:29 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by HeavyArty

                        Yes, the color scheme you describe was used. I did mine that way too, I think, based off the same article. I don't know of an acrylic match for the sand, but I used Testors Model Master Sand enamel and it matches what I have seen.
                        Check here for a bunch of posts related to the AH-1W. http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/search.asp?search=AH-1W&forum=f16&s_id=0&mode=DoIt

                        As for the Hellfires, they look accurate to me. I went with the kit ones and they turned out great.
                        Here is my version, sandwiched between a 1/32 Revell OH-58A/C and a Israeli AH-1W ( Yeah, I know they don't use this version, but I like the look of it):



                        Hope this helps.

                        Sorry, I didn't fully read your post. Mine is the 1/35 scale MRC/Academy version, not the 1/72 scale Italeri model. Paint scheme and other tips still apply though.

                        Gino P. Quintiliani - Field Artillery - The KING of BATTLE!!!

                        Check out my Gallery: https://app.photobucket.com/u/HeavyArty

                        "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 21, 2004 9:37 PM
                        Everyone, thanks for the help. I guess I should have searched a bit more...

                        Thanks for the tip on the Academy AH-64A-that's perfect. Maybe that will be an excuse to build an Israeli Apache...

                        Rick
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