After a long six month build I finally got this finished yesterday. Originally tooled by Airfix in 1973, this was from the 1989 Heller re-boxing with some additional parts. Decals were from Carpentia for an Iraqi scheme in spring 1990. There was a lot of scratch building involved, listed as follows: Sand filter
Missiles and rails
Vacformed front canopy
Fenestron with open hub
Doors
Front aerial
Seats and control sticks
Skids
Tail rotor drive shafts
Pitot tubes
Detailing to main rotor hub
Detailing to cockpit interior including fire extinguisher
Small home made decals from spares box
Rigging wires
I used a few parts from the Extratech PE, worth having but most of the parts were unusable due to being under or over scale.
The WIP can be found here.
To give an idea of scale:
I hope you like it. Now I can focus on my Helix build.
Bye for now,
Nigel