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  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: Baton Rouge, Snake Central
Posted by PatlaborUnit1 on Monday, March 5, 2007 6:16 PM

Monogram AH1S Cobra.

Get one of the older kits (without the clamshell style box from the early 90s) because the clear parts mold seems to have worn out and the clear parts on the last releases didnt fit as well.

Great kit, sweet build, and if you take your time and sand off the pins, you will only need filler at the tip of the nose and right behind the aft crosstube.  Leave the rotor totally removable by not pinning the mast with the clip.  

Check out my blow by blow photo tutorial on how to build it at :

http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/hlmp/jgsdf.html 

I love this kit! Pretty darned accurate and I have a slug of them that I got cheap off of Ebay.

Enjoy

David 

Build to please yourself, and don't worry about what others think! TI 4019 Jolly Roger Squadron, 501st Legion
  • Member since
    November 2005
  • From: Amongst Words
Posted by aardvark1917 on Sunday, March 4, 2007 10:41 AM
The H-34 it will have to be, as I have the Squad/Sig book on it.

Nice to see there's a PE for it, too.

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Valrico, FL
Posted by HeavyArty on Friday, March 2, 2007 9:23 PM
Monogram/Revell 1/48 UH-1C Huey Hog gunship is a nice, easy first build.  It is not accurate in its markings and weapons layout though.  Still a good intro to helos.

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

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

  • Member since
    June 2003
  • From: USA
Posted by RotorheadTX on Friday, March 2, 2007 8:27 PM

Italeri 1/72nd scale H-34 Choctaw/Seabat

Hasegawa 1/48 AH-64D Longbow 

""Expect nothing - that way you won't be surprised when it's precisely what you get.""
  • Member since
    November 2005
  • From: Amongst Words
Never Built a Helicopter ...
Posted by aardvark1917 on Friday, March 2, 2007 7:19 PM
... so what would you who have suggest as a "first" kit?

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