AH-60L DAP Blackhawk

[GalaxyChief]

I have a similar bird in my stash !!! and what a monster ! there is BIG and there is BIG !!!

I have no room to display it with the Rotors !!! and would look ODD without !

I wish there was a way to Fold them !!! like a Naval variant !!! but no !


Keep going cuz I will learn from this build for sure

The Blackhawks have the ability to stow the rotors to the rear. The Army may not do it all the time but they do it for transport by C5/C17 not sure of what exactly they bolts they take out but it done.

 

[Myke]

The Blackhawks have the ability to stow the rotors to the rear. The Army may not do it all the time but they do it for transport by C5/C17 not sure of what exactly they bolts they take out but it done.

Yea, that makes sense. I guess they were not flying those things across the planet. I'm going to have to look for some photos of them being transported. That brings some new ideas to the plate.

 

[GalaxyChief]

Here are a few I found being loaded on a C5

http://www.theaviationzone.com/images/galaxy/bin/c5200.jpg

http://www.theaviationzone.com/images/galaxy/bin/c5196.jpg

http://www.theaviationzone.com/images/galaxy/bin/c5022.jpg

 

[Myke]

Woa - pretty cool man.
Cheers for those photos!!

That would be a cool dio. A 1/35 scale dio of that Blackhawk coming out of the mouth of a C-5 or C-17. scratch bulid just the nose of the C-5 or something like that.... hmmm, light bulbs going off. Better get to the drawing board.

 

[Myke]

UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!

With the recent shortage of Tamiya's Primer here in the old US of A, I've had to rearrange my build schedule and just dig in to all the sub assemblies before I can start painting. Last I heard was that the powers that be had some issue with the labeling on Tamiya products, and they should be showing back up in LHS's in the next week or two.

So I've been getting stuck in on the photo etch.

PE added to the back of the Pilot's chairs.

PE added to the completed Minigun

PE Added to the console

 

[Junkie]

Very cool - love the gun! Been looking around for a 1/35 chopper after watching this...very cool.

 

[Myke]

A few more photos.

Cockpit Dryfitting

Gunner's chairs all in pieces. Look at those nasty pin ejection holes. I love filling those, it's my favorite!!!

Adding the photo etch to the rack that the Gunner's chairs mount to on the roof.

And mounted

Completed

 

[Myke]

Engine completed (still to add some more wiring/hosing/detail)

And I'm not up to adding the photo etch tie downs to the floor. You can see the map that Eduard provides as well. They say it's 1:1 so you can cut it out and line it up but....it's not.

 

[Myke]

Very cool - love the gun! Been looking around for a 1/35 chopper after watching this...very cool.

Wait till you see the .50 cal that sits on the doors, it's 90% PE and is going to look amazing. I'll try to get those up soon.

 

[Quaralane]

--shakes head--
Lots of etch there. You're going strong

 

[TRM]

Looking great!!!! Definately looking for to seeing the .50!!!! ;D

 

[Myke]

KEEP THE PHOTO ETCH ROLLING

Got a lot done tonight. Let's see....

..., All the PE added to the deck now.

Let's move on now to the Guns....
Forgot a couple pieces on the MiniGuns

Here is the original kit piece, and here is the stripped down piece, ready for the PE.

Here is the barrel, i think it turned out pretty good.

It's coming along now.

And here it is with the amo box and plenty of rounds to fill it.

My eyes couldn't take any more PE for the night so lets build some weapons.

Getting organized a bit now.

All assembled, tomorrow i'll get the sanding and filling and sanding and repeating done.

Thanks for looking, more to come soon.

All the best

Myke

 

[Grendels]

The photo etch really brings those guns to life!! Keep us posted!

 

[nimrod77]

Amazing work! Really looks great! Love those guns.

 

[TRM]

Nice progress!! Love the upgrade Gun! ;D

 

[Haggistom]

Now, that is nice! loving the photo etch. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Quaralane]

The etch is taking this to the next level.

 

[Solander]

Yeah, I knew right from the beginning, that this etch is going to add some rock! I new it! ;D

 

[SimpleModels]

Great build so far. I am all dizzy from just watching you do the etch. Great to see someone jumping over the detail fence and into super detail land

 

[MrNatural]

wow! just now getting a look at this build. great work so far. the photo etch especially on that gun is really somethin else!