Completed - Revell 1/144 Apache Longbow AH-64D

  Well it has been a while since my last post.  I forgot that I had finished this little one.  Anyhow here she is in all her glory.  Think I will be buying another one and doing it correctly.

  Yeah its a little dusty, its amazing how much dust a camera can pick up on eh?

  PEACE!

  Dazz

Revell 1/144 Hughes/Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow WiP-2

  Getting through this one very quickly.  It's a good build and lots of fun.  I thought I would give Revell Aqua-colors a second try.  Wished I never bothered now.  They paint pretty crappy, think I will stick to my Vallejo's from now on.  The instructions say that the while aircraft is Olive Drab... like hell thats so boring! I will see what I can do.  Onto the pictures...

  Noticed that there is a lot of bits that need touching up.  I will do that later on.  Need to sort out a lot of the filler and the paint has shown up a lot of lumbs and bumps... weird...

  Anyhow, more to come!

  Peace!

  Dazz

New Project Revell 1/144 Hughes/Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow WiP-1

  Here is my next entry, however this time it's for the helicopter GB also on Britmodeller.  I'm surprised by this, but no one has decided to do the Apache yet, pratically everything else, but.  Very surprising. 

  Typical box art shot... very wonderful. :)

  This is the version I will be making, I was going to make an British Army version, but I got lazy and didn't do any research into it.  I've got another one laying around that I can always make into.

  Both sprue shots, nothing to write home about.  You get the idea, however I will not be using those Hellfires, they really suck, I could fix a few of them, but I will not be doing all 8, sod that.

  This is where I am upto as of last night.  I will be sorting all of the seam lines next.

  Close up of the cockpit.  what do you think of those seat belts?  I'm not too sure if they work or not.  Dont forget I have to put the canopy on it yet also.  If anyone is to build this model, I suggest that they put the wheel legs on before they put those little trunky bits on the side.  It's impossible to do otherwise.

  Well hopefully more to come.

  PEACE!

  Dazz

New Purchases - AH-64D, S-37 Berkut, F-86 Sabre and YF-23

  Got these ones when I bought the F-22 from LuckyModel.  Quite impressed with some and others I am not.

   Right these two planes, the Longbow was purchased because I needed some Hellfires for a project.  The only other model that I can think of that would have them is the Dragon GR7/GR9 Harrier kits and I have next to no chance of getting one of them for a decent price.  The S-37 is a plane I really like as well, thinking of painting this plane the same colours as the Sukhoi T-50 Pak-Fa and the MiG 1.44 as an Mig-29 of some kind.  Might be risky and paint it like Yellow 13 from Ace Combat 4 : Shattered Skies.  Dunno yet, I remember building the Apache when I was a little nipper probably about 12-ish.  Didn't think much of it then, but it now I can have the cockpit window open.  Might look into that.

   I lied earlier, I got this one from Hannants, I ordered it when the second F-22, I was under the impression that it would be the same kind of class as the F-22, I was wrong there.  I also have massive respect for this plane.  It also had some very cool paint work painted all over it at the time.  Might have to see if I can get any other kind of decals for it or see whats in my stash.  Sure I have something.

  I also love this plane for some reason, even tho it lost to the F-22.  I love it's name too, "Black Widow II" after the P-61 Black Widow, what a beast that plane was!  There was another plane made nicknamed "Grey Ghost" sounds like something from Macross or Metal Gear Solid.  Still a cool plane, altho the sprues are very crap.  There is about 40 pieces on the models if that, I was thinking of scratch building the bomb-bay too.

  Thats all for now.

  Peace!

  Dazz