1/35 CH47-A Almost done!

oldhooker wrote:

J.H. Primm wrote:  AirMedical wrote: Yeah, lots of windows, but you also have to modify the fuel pods and come up with a new cockpit enclosure (the civil version has weather radar which gives the front end a profile similiar to that seen on MH-47Ds and Es), leave the ramp and hatch off, change the rotor blades. Move the forward landing gear forward a bit. etc, etc. Yah, yah, yah. Technicalities.  The way some of these scratch guys go at it.  I don't want to hear excuses.  I wanna see results.     Now get to work!  Not me! I ain't talented enough to scratchbuild/modify all of the stuff it would take to change even a D model into one of Columbia's 234s. Jonathan Primm AirMedical,    I'm going to wait and see the update kit Cobra Company is doing before tackling the Trump, and also looking forward to the upcoming 1/48 release from Italeri.      Yes, there's a soft spot for a 1/48 version...  http://modeling.gunsagogo.org --- Jonathan, A "234".... yeah, that would be nice!      Interior and all!        Wouldn't that be a beauty? Take care, Frank

A 234 as used once upon a time by British Airways would be nice but all of them belong to Columbia Helicopters now, and they pull all the stuff out of the interior stuff and put in a small-ish interior fuel cell in order to maximize the amount of weight they can lift.

Jonathan Primm

J.H. Primm wrote:

AirMedical wrote: Yeah, lots of windows, but you also have to modify the fuel pods and come up with a new cockpit enclosure (the civil version has weather radar which gives the front end a profile similiar to that seen on MH-47Ds and Es), leave the ramp and hatch off, change the rotor blades. Move the forward landing gear forward a bit. etc, etc. Yah, yah, yah. Technicalities.  The way some of these scratch guys go at it.  I don't want to hear excuses.  I wanna see results.     Now get to work!  Not me! I ain't talented enough to scratchbuild/modify all of the stuff it would take to change even a D model into one of Columbia's 234s. Jonathan Primm

AirMedical,

   I'm going to wait and see the update kit Cobra Company is doing before tackling the Trump, and also looking forward to the upcoming 1/48 release from Italeri.      Yes, there's a soft spot for a 1/48 version...  http://modeling.gunsagogo.org

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Jonathan,

A "234".... yeah, that would be nice!      Interior and all!        Wouldn't that be a beauty?

Take care,

Frank

Papa-Echo-64 wrote:

Guys!.....I'm not that good.....plus were talking 1/35 scale here... NOT a decal...I'm going to paint this right on the helo!

A decal wouldn't be that hard to do.  All you need is the artwork from John (AirMedical) and to print it onto computer decal paper.  I would go the decal route.  Good luck either way.

AirMedical wrote:

Yeah, lots of windows, but you also have to modify the fuel pods and come up with a new cockpit enclosure (the civil version has weather radar which gives the front end a profile similiar to that seen on MH-47Ds and Es), leave the ramp and hatch off, change the rotor blades. Move the forward landing gear forward a bit. etc, etc. Yah, yah, yah. Technicalities.  The way some of these scratch guys go at it.  I don't want to hear excuses.  I wanna see results.     Now get to work!

Not me!

I ain't talented enough to scratchbuild/modify all of the stuff it would take to change even a D model into one of Columbia's 234s.

Jonathan Primm

Papa-Echo-64 wrote:

OK..... Snoopy it is!.....but painting woodstock at that scale would be tough....I'll try some tests and see what I can do.

Yeah, lots of windows, but you also have to modify the fuel pods and come up with a new cockpit enclosure (the civil version has weather radar which gives the front end a profile similiar to that seen on MH-47Ds and Es), leave the ramp and hatch off, change the rotor blades. Move the forward landing gear forward a bit. etc, etc.

I vote for the Red Baron Snoopy and Woodstock design.

Kinda like this, but withsome guns on it and maybe Woodstock flying in the back seat. Similar to what Frank showed.

OK.....

Snoopy it is!.....but painting woodstock at that scale would be tough....I'll try some tests and see what I can do.

J.H. Primm wrote:

Papa-Echo-64 wrote: Thanks You guys! Hey Chris....thats a good one!  What aircraft is that on? a CH46? Looks like the crew door on a '53   Jonathan Primm

That's exactly what it is.  HMH-464's CH-53E 162255 A/C 16.  It had to be painted over a couple of years ago.  I did it myself.  I wouldn't let anyone else paint it over, but it lives on in the form of a tattoo. 

I can't wait to see the Machine Gun Snoopy design finished. 

Semper Fi,

Chris

AirMedical wrote:

Gee, so I'm shy by 6.5 inches.  Hee-hee!   Were are ya going to put that thing? Sure would like to see one done up as a Columbia bird.  They have lot's of windows!  Time to break out the Roto-Zip!!!! Cheers

Yeah, lots of windows, but you also have to modify the fuel pods and come up with a new cockpit enclosure (the civil version has weather radar which gives the front end a profile similiar to that seen on MH-47Ds and Es), leave the ramp and hatch off, change the rotor blades. Move the forward landing gear forward a bit. etc, etc.

I worked on one of the birds they bought from Donald Trump for a while...I figured out I was in the wrong place when it started snowing (in July!) on us while at a field  site at about 6000 feet on a hill in the vicinity of Enumclaw, WA. I decided to go to work someplace where it didn't snow in July and where I could go home every night instead of living out of a kit bag and changing motel rooms every couple of days.

Jonathan Primm

AirMedical wrote:

So how big is that thing?  About three feet long?    Can't wait to see her all finished.  Look'n good, look'n good!

It actually isn't as big as you would think.  Fuselage is  17.5" long, add another  6" to each end for the blade overhang.  Total length from blade tip to blade tip is 29.5".   O.K., it is pretty big.  Big and beautifull!!! 

Mr. Primm may be correct.

This would be cool!

Except.....make Snoopy's tail and ears whirl like the rotors of a Hook, put a big grin on him and put his arms foward firing M-60's......whatitya think?

Papa-Echo-64 wrote:

Thanks You guys! Hey Chris....thats a good one!  What aircraft is that on? a CH46?

Looks like the crew door on a '53

Jonathan Primm

LOL!!! Totaly agree))) Cant wait to see the first built 1/35 Hook on FSM

I have complited only 1.5 model in a year!!!)))))))) though I have something like 4 helos and 3 planes under construction constantly....

Andy

Thanks You guys!

Hey Chris....thats a good one!  What aircraft is that on? a CH46?

It's looking great, and we can't wait to see it finished.  It's a mean looking son-of-a-gun.

I love the snoopy picture.  It looks like someone had a similar idea a few years later.

Semper Fi,

Chris

Hi Troy,

   Moving right along looks like.... you'll be all finished here before long!

Snoopy aye?

132nd "Hercules"

Take care and thanks for the pics!

Frank

I just finished with the first set of decals.....I cut away the white square from the Cav emblem.

I may try (on some scrap) a few attempts on a Snoopy idea I have....he's pretty easy to draw.

I used a scull from a 1/35 helo decal sheet I have and put it on the front pylon.

Its starting to look like a HOOK!....can't wait to take the material off the glass after a few dull coats!