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Very nice work, well painted and weathered, well done Ed

Many thanks for your comments guys, I'm pleased you like it...👍 Ed

Thank you Troffa for your detailed comments, I've just gone through the instruction manual and Meng do give the two options of TADS. Meng give you three marking options for this helicopter, being that the cockpit is the first item to be assembled I chose one of the three versions which used this version of TADS. Later on as the build progressed I decided to do one of the other versions not realising at the time that the TADS version would be incorrect, and also hadn't realised until you pointed it out. Not to worry I'm still happy with it. The whole idea of showing the photo's of the cockpit was to show how good the Quinta Studio set really is and for completeness they do also offer the two versions as well. Thank you for spending the time to detail out the different versions I'm sure that It may be useful to someone else in the future many thanks again for your comments Ed

Thank you, much appreciated....

Thank you to all of you for your very kind comments, It's very much appreciated... Ed

Thank you Martin for your comments, I hope you found the M3 photstream useful, I love Miniart kits, they have amazing detail, I'm sure you'll enjoy finishing yours and I will look forward to seeing it... Ed

Many thanks guys, your comments are really appreciated Ed

Many thanks to all of you, it's very much appreciated... Ed

Thanks for your comments, for the main body I first primed using Mr Hobby Aqueous black, then started to marble in white as so.... I then followed on with the main colour AK US Army Helo Drab FS34031. followed by lots of pin washing and around 180 decals hope this helps Ed

Many thanks to both of you for your kind comments Ed

Hi there folks, here's my completed Apache Longbow, I've been a fan of this for a while and when I saw this at the Telford show last year at a good discount there was only one choice to make. Overall I found this to be a really nice build, the only major issue I had was with the main canopy which comes in one piece plus the two for the pilot and gunner. I had to do quite a bit of easing on the model to get this to fit properly, then fill in the gaps. (I believe Takom do all these as separate pieces which I think would be better). I added wiring to both of the engines to try to make them a little more interesting using lead wire, the figures were by R2 Miniatures and finally the cockpit detail was a set by Quinta Studio, those were absolutely amazing to use. So here goes with a few pictures, A couple of photo's of the cockpit prior to adding to the main fuselage showing the Quinta Studio detail set The set includes the seat covers and seat belts etc... hope you like what you see... all the best Ed

Thank you so much guys, really appreciate your kind words and feedback… all the best Ed

Great work Francis, I really like the different tones you have on the tank and the figures really do make it. Well done 👍 Ed

I really appreciate all your kind comments, thank you... Ed

Beautifully done Wayne, construction looks great but the weathering really makes this stand out. Lots of things to pick out here but my favourite is the way that you have weathered the propeller. Excellent... Ed