SPA Modeler

I know about the big noise, till few years ago the hc.4 group was located in the Sigonella base and often i see them (sometimes three mh53 at time) fliyng over the beach and sometime near to my house

Reallyvi see lots of types of helos from my house even if no airports near , lots.. included mil mi-26 as fire duty!!

Here two more ... Ec-135 and BK-177, yellow madness!



Both revell boxes but the 117are matchbox undercover mould

Asap the box'n'sprues and the updates

BsYamato wrote:Here two more ... Ec-135 and BK-177, yellow madness!



Both revell boxes but the 117are matchbox undercover mould

Asap the box'n'sprues and the updates

Yellow sprues just have that something !!



- Kari

Heres Box'n'sprues of the two yellows


EC135









BK-117











The 135 is more detailed than the BK (old matchbox reboxed) but the old one have good point with detailed ip, also the subject is featuring from an RTL series about fliyng ambulance service, never seen in Italy.


The BK was started some month ago , then freezed til now, the few works done was to glue engines sections to the fuselage and tail subassembly



Other night glued needed pieces to procede interior paint. Some thinning work was done on the exhaust holes and same exhausts to improve realism









About same works on the EC135



As you can see the ec inners are more detailed than the old matchbox





Test comparative fitting



some lead added to prevent tail sitting






Last night some putty work to fill some extractor signs and after washing with alcool , a mix of vallejo primer, white and a little point of blue (then also black ..) to use as primer and main inner color with three layers done

EC135








BK-117 : heres i added some plastic sheet on the front ceiling before to paint.





out of the little BK add it's all out of box

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Last night finished interiors:

Out of few instruments painted with brush in the both central consolles , all are oob

Gloss and semi gloss to protect colors


BK-117







Ec-135: theres more details to paint respect the 117, unfortunately nothing can be seen after close fuselages.







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Are washes up next?

Really tiny washes was already done. keep in nind that these are Flying ambulancies

Yes, I did see the gurney...

Clear parts time:

Cut off the three windows par side from the single piece that revell moulded for the kit



Then all windows was sanded on the borders and painted in black (recucing inner white effect inner reflections and improve trasparency)



then glued with a mixture of vinil glue, water and black acrilic





Almost same on the BK117, but here windows are already in single pieces



And glued on fuselages (after also upper and bottom corner windows)



Now waiting for perfect dry glue and next step to fill possible gaps and improve strenght of fixed windows

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Rapidly going to glue fuselages

BK-117









EC-135









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