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1/35 MH-47E conversion

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  • Member since
    November 2005
  • From: Newnan, GA
Posted by J.H. Primm on Monday, February 19, 2007 7:43 AM
 intruder_bass wrote:

   Just started 1/35th Chinook...

   I know there have been a lot of posts here already about inaccuracies of the Trump kit. Yes it is still a nice model even built OOB and it still looks like CH-47 but.... I am going to try to correct at least the main mistakes done by manufacturer. If you guys are interested in this - please feel free to post here any "craziest ideas" on how to correct this thing.

   Here is what I've got by now

   To avoid all camera/focus distortions the pic of the model was taken from distance of aprox 5 meters.  

  To say truth I was expecting much worse from the results

  What do you think?

 

Andy

  

The cobra comapny interior parts help a bunch...I haven't gotten to the exterior of mine yet, still working on the cockpit and companion way, avionics and heater closets. I have plans on doing the hydraulic and fuel lines in the ramp area with various guages of solder...(it's much easier to bend and shape than wire)...In the mean time I am in the process of building the Italeri kit as a CH-47A, and that kit has a whole mess of problems as well.

I almost wish I didn't know anything about CH-47s!

 

  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: Baton Rouge, Snake Central
Posted by PatlaborUnit1 on Sunday, February 18, 2007 8:10 PM

It's close, andyour right, it LOOKs like a hook, but there are some problems....either way if I was gifted with this kit, I wouldnt turn my nose up on it, just plow right on in.

 Doors can be filled and rescribed or cut as you desire. windows are so close I wouldnt do the effort to move them, but years ago in FMS Les Sundt did his C130 windows by removing them altother with a big stripof plastic and laying in a matching slab of clear plastic, blending this in, and then covering over the new ports with tape, spraying the paint on, revealing new windows when the tape was removed.  Not much movement there, I personally would not bother with it.  

The pylons however are a different issue.....that will require either re-secting the pylon the way plastic car bodies are cut up and resected into one (frankenbodies)  or mastering up a pattern to create a new filler piece in resin.

 

David

 

Build to please yourself, and don't worry about what others think! TI 4019 Jolly Roger Squadron, 501st Legion
  • Member since
    November 2013
1/35 MH-47E conversion
Posted by intruder_bass on Sunday, February 18, 2007 7:18 PM

   Just started 1/35th Chinook...

   I know there have been a lot of posts here already about inaccuracies of the Trump kit. Yes it is still a nice model even built OOB and it still looks like CH-47 but.... I am going to try to correct at least the main mistakes done by manufacturer. If you guys are interested in this - please feel free to post here any "craziest ideas" on how to correct this thing.

   Here is what I've got by now

   To avoid all camera/focus distortions the pic of the model was taken from distance of aprox 5 meters.  

  To say truth I was expecting much worse from the results

  What do you think?

 

Andy

  

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