The Duke's Helicopter Group Build
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 10:48 pm
Okay everyone, I finally got the chance to get started on this Group Build. I chose the Special Hobby AH-1G Cobra for the Marine Corps.
I started my Special Hobby AH-1G Marine Corp Cobra by looking in the box. The first thing I saw made me say out loud: "SERIOUSLY? I have to do WHAT?" Yes, I have to assemble the entire cockpit canopy piece by piece when the time comes:
Well moving on, I started; once again, with the cockpit. The first thing I had to do was to cut off the back part and replace it with the one shown in place right here:
Then I added all the control sticks and targeting equipment along with the instrument panels:
Afterwards, I added the armor plate and then painted this up:
The instructions said to apply the decals to the instrument panel faces but there were no instrument panel decals on the decal sheet! So, I painted them too:
After that, I assembled the seat and set them aside to dry. While they were drying, I assembled the tail section that my particular version was supposed to have:
I then went through and put all the weapon pod halves together:
That's as far as I got so far on that. Hopefully this coming week I'll be able to get more done.
Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
I started my Special Hobby AH-1G Marine Corp Cobra by looking in the box. The first thing I saw made me say out loud: "SERIOUSLY? I have to do WHAT?" Yes, I have to assemble the entire cockpit canopy piece by piece when the time comes:
Well moving on, I started; once again, with the cockpit. The first thing I had to do was to cut off the back part and replace it with the one shown in place right here:
Then I added all the control sticks and targeting equipment along with the instrument panels:
Afterwards, I added the armor plate and then painted this up:
The instructions said to apply the decals to the instrument panel faces but there were no instrument panel decals on the decal sheet! So, I painted them too:
After that, I assembled the seat and set them aside to dry. While they were drying, I assembled the tail section that my particular version was supposed to have:
I then went through and put all the weapon pod halves together:
That's as far as I got so far on that. Hopefully this coming week I'll be able to get more done.
Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.