Customized Loach

Gerald,

    You've really done an impressive job on the OH-6!      

    It looks like you could just go out there, crawl up in it, and go flying!    Thanks for showing your build... I need to get me one of them!

   Take care,

   Frank

Approaching the end...test fitted the rotor assemblies and will start decaling soon.

The Camo looks great on that mean little egg.  One thing however, It looks like there's some dust or something (white specks) at the base of the tail boom.  It shouldn't be hard to clean up, I just hope it's not dried into the paint.  Great looking machine.

Semper Fi,

Chris

Well, I unmasked her.

Not exactly as I had envisioned it, but it does have a striking effect. The two 'stripe' colors are flat black and SAC bomber tan.

Time to assemble and finish painting the rotor assemblies. I broke off one of the landing skid pins while test fitting but it is an easy enough repair with a drill some wire and CA. Think I will peel the masking off the glass...probably premature but I want to see how it looks!

Hi Gerald,

Looks like the Hasegawa kit builds up pretty fast (is this the same mold as the Academy MH-6 'Stealth Helicopter' kit?). I'd go with the Tiger camo stripes, that would make for a pretty neat looking Loach.

Cool looking model so far!

Cheers,

Alby 

A little more progress made.

Base color of Drab Green.

Then some strips of masking tape were torn and applied as masking for bands of the second color of the scheme.

I added Dark Green, then removed the masking strips.

Still pondering whether to add a third color to the mix...black or dark earth streaks to replicate the camo pattern found on tiger camo fatigues.