1/144 Minicraft AC-130A Hercules "Azrael" Completed.

You certainly are one to challenge yourself, Keyda. Gonna paint the ship in Vietnam camo?

fotofrank

You certainly are one to challenge yourself, Keyda. Gonna paint the ship in Vietnam camo?

 

Lol, yea sometimes too much!  But you never learn if you don't right?!  Yep just like the box art....hopefully!  I don't have a camo Herc yet.

Painted up the inside of the little Herc this morning, let that dry, and did a bit of a wash to bring out the details more.  But I forgot to take a picture before I closed her up, lol.

You can kinda see inside......

Masking off the windows was actually a bit easier than you think.  The windows themselves were recessed a bit, made it a lot easier to cut with a razor.

Excuse the total girl moment here, but it's so cute!  A little baby Herc, lol.

Some putty to be added, and some sanding done.  But at least this has recessed panel lines.  I'm going to be trying a few new things with this one as well.  So we'll see how things turn out!

Glued the engine nacelles on after sanding them a bit.  I'll start on prime/putty/sand tomorrow.

mawright20

Ah, look at the cute, girly pink rubberbands...

 

Lol.  Actually they start out red, until you stretch them.  Trust me, even though I'm a women I'm not a big fan of pink!  My favorite color is blue.

Keyda81

 

mawright20

Ah, look at the cute, girly pink rubberbands...

 

 

 

 

Lol.  Actually they start out red, until you stretch them.  Trust me, even though I'm a women I'm not a big fan of pink!  My favorite color is blue.

 

Thought about making the same comment, but after two marriages, I know better, even though Keyda is calling it baby herc.

Even though it's a 1/144 kit it seems to have a great deal of detail. What do you think of this kit ?  I may hafta get one.

You are slyly making me have an afinity for these cargo ships and I already built a C-119 thanks to your WIP's  

goldhammer

 

 

Keyda81

 

mawright20

Ah, look at the cute, girly pink rubberbands...

 

 

 

 

Lol.  Actually they start out red, until you stretch them.  Trust me, even though I'm a women I'm not a big fan of pink!  My favorite color is blue.

 

 

 

 

Thought about making the same comment, but after two marriages, I know better, even though Keyda is calling it baby herc.

 

Lol.  Trust me, I am no girly-girl.  I might have a few girlish tendencies that slip out every now and then, but I grew up with my two cousins who are both boys.  So I was out there getting dirty, climbing trees, poking in places we didn't belong, lol.  I was the only girl in auto shop class in high school, and I've worked at two different auto parts stores.  I know I'm not your typical women, lol. 

Jay Jay, It's pretty good actually.  I was expecting it to not have the option to have the rear cargo doors open, and no interior.  Mind you there is a whole 2 pieces to the interior, but it is more than I expected.  Fit has been pretty good so far.  Only issue I ran into was where they have you replace the front section of the left sponson.  Instructions tell you to cut that section out, and then have you replace it with another piece in the kit, after you put the floor in.  It should be put in before the floor, since it goes in from behind.  I just popped the floor back out, and got it in there. 

I would like to do the C-119 as well for my "planes of Niagara" idea.  I'd prefer to find the kit in 1/72 though.  The 1/144 would just be to small for me. 

When they perfect cloning, I want to be the first in line to request a copy of you.  Just my kind of lady.

Keyda, when you get to Dayton, the real one is in there. Awesome I must say!

Max

Nice comeback, looks great!

Your friend, Toshi

I used to live in Marietta, GA and my office was right across the highway from the end of the runway of Dobbins Air Reserve base, which is adjacent to the Lockheed-Martin plant where the Hercs are built.  You can imagine the excitement of being under the final approach path when those big birds were landing!  We also got to watch F-15s, 16s, and an occasional Galaxy coming in, a few hundred feet overhead!

I'll give you my C-119 if you want it. Just PM me your address.

goldhammer, lol!  Tell my husband that!  J/K.  He loves me.  So much so he bought me the expensive Iwata airbrush for Christmas that I refused to buy.  I love it, but still say we couldn't afford it!  I guess a 40% off coupon helps too though.

Hodakamax, That is one of the reasons I picked up this kit!  I know she's there, and with any luck I'm going to try and get to Ohio this summer.  I need to do some stuff to my truck first, and look into prices for hotels and what not.  See if I can squeeze it into the budget. 

Toshi, Thank you!  You and the Mrs. are in my thoughts!

Cadet Chuck, The base here used to operate the Herc.  I've had my fair share of them fly over head.  They used to practice touch and go's on Tuesdays.  I had dinner cooked and on the table early on those days just in case they flew.  If I spotted them I would jump in the truck and head over to a road that is near the runway.  The sight and sound of them going over never gets old!  They do still occasionally stop at the base and take off, they tend to fly near my house when they do. 

GMorrison, Thank you so much, PM sent!

mawright20

Ive been down to Dobbins a number of times for the Herc sim. Nothing beats a caree traveling the world in the ‘four fans of freedom’!

 

Hercs will always be my favorite plane.

Threw a coat of primer on to bring out the areas I need to work on.  The main seam is pretty glaring, along with the windscreen piece.  At least in this scale I won't need much putty!

After a little bit of sanding and putty work.

2nd round of primer.  Better, but still not the way I want it.  Hopefully one more round will do it. 

Did one more round of sanding and primer this morning, then gave that a couple hours to sit and dry.

Painted the camo freehand with my Iwata airbrush hubby got me for Christmas.  I love this airbrush.  It works great!  I still might have to touch up a few spots, but I'm happy with the way the camo turned out.  I made some antenna for the top of the plane too. 

I'll get to masking and putting the black on in a few hours. 

WOW it looks like you got that new airbrush down pat already, great job on that camo  

Thanks Jay Jay!  There a few spots I got a little too much paint, and had to lightly sand down. 

Got the black painted. 

It's starting to look the part now.  I'll be working on touch-ups and decals tomorrow.  Should have it all finished up before the weekend is over.

Thats a really nice tight demarcation in 1/144?!!?!?!?  Nice work with the airbrush. 

keavdog, Thank you!  I had to be very paitent with it, lol.  It felt like I was hunched over painting for hours!  I had to take my time, and not pull back too much on the trigger.  There was a few spots I did, but it still came out pretty good.  I masked off the camo then painted the black so I didn't screw up somewhere, lol.

lawdog, Thanks!  It is certainly the airbrush to use for detail work.  I will no longer be apprehensive about trying camo patterns!  I thought I could do it with the Passche, but it just didn't get the lines that tight. 

Looking great Keyda  Nice soft edges.

An airbrush is only as good as the user.  And you did a phenomenal job.  That’s amazing freehand for 1/144!!!!!!!!!!!!  I can’t even get that close.  Wow, and I’m not just saying this to say this!  Wow!

Your friend, Toshi

Thanks modelcrazy!

Toshi, lol!  Thank you!  It took lots of concentration and paitence. 

I had pretty much all day to work on Azrael.  So I finished her up!  I thought it was going to take me longer to get the final assembely done.  Those darn antenna wire were so annoying!  I could of just left them out, but they were on the box art so I wanted them on the plane!  I liked the way it looked. 

Nice little build.  You did an exceptional job on the camo.  What Iwata are you using?

WOW that bcame out so good . I never was interested in 1/144 scale but I just gotta get one of these to try and get it to look half as nice as yours.