russ c Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Hi all, just finished my Academy 1/48 scale CH-46A Sea Knight or Phrog Done as aircraft of HMM-262, US Marines, the `Flying Tigers, Vietnam 99% Out of the box, only additions being seat belts, a cable run along each cabin side (that you can hardly see) and some bits of wire to simulate pipes on the rotor hubs. there`s a lot of decals on it, which took me 3 evenings to complete oh, and I used some kitchen roll to simulate sound proofing on the cabin roof to cover where Academy left a gap at the rear and you can see the fuelage join Hope you enjoy looking at 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matcham11 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Astonoshing build! It looks really great! Robin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smuts Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Cracking build, nice phrog. Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonL Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Great finish - looks very purposeful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger331 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Nice job.......you have captured the look of this machine very well. Brings back memories of clambering over one of these in Cyprus in 1973. The USMC had been sent in to cover some evacuations of civilians from the Lebanon and deployed (IIRC) a couple of Phrogs, a Ch-53 and acouple of AH-1s. They were parked up at the British Army base at Dhekalia and the Americans kindly invited those that they had disturbed with their night flying to have a look over the, then, exotic aircraft which we had only ever seen on TV footage from the Vietnam war. Well done ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmcclure Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Great work - the three nights spent on decals were well worth it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Very nice indeed Russ, looks very convincing. Congratulations. Colin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbuna Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Looks great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabio Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Quality, that! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snapper_city Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Now that is nice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardiff guy Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 love the frog well done Glenn..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 It's a cracker Russ (said in an Irish accent by someone who isn't Irish !!!!) Great paintwork 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phildagreek Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Nice build, you've done a cracking job, nice to see something in green, everything is shades of grey now. Your decals look the bizz! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonR Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Brilliant, looks superb! Got the same kit, might just have to get on with it now! cheers Simon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miniair Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Another quality build 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL-10 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Another lovely model Russ! Excellent work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FZ6 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I've got one of these and it looks nice in the box. It looks even better built up. You've done a great job and I like the scheme you've chosen. Thanks for sharing. Kitchen Roll sound like an ideal source for soundproofing I can see that working well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stryker Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Not huge chopper fan but very well done Russ. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Brilliant! I really like that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz973 Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Super build and finish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llking Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Great Job 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paganpete Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Superb, really great job!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary West Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Loving that - nice to see one in the "non Grey era" too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Lovely build and finish! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPARKER Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 Cracking build, nice job Si 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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