AREA 88: Bell 206 Jet Ranger (Honichi Times)

Greg Baker Szerző
This should be interesting. First time to attempt a vacuu-formed kit. Luckily I have another one in the stash in case this all goes horribly wrong. 😉

Alex K
Oh... new show... taking a seat...

Mark
👀

Florian H.
I will take a seat 🙂

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat, of course 🙂 Myself I feel a "horror vacui" when it comes to such kind of kits 😉 ...

Spanjaard
That will be interesting. Never done a vacu kit myself

bughunter
This is the most beautiful helicopter ever built! 👍 It appears in almost every movie of the 70s and 80s. So I have to watch!
I still have a kit in the basement. Don't know the scale, around 1.5m length of the fuselage.

Bruce Huxtable
Loving the simplistic instructions in piccie 5 😉 What sprue? Watching, enthralled 🙂 BTW, what era is the kit from?

Greg Baker Szerző
What sprue? I'm more worried about where I get a dress sequin from… 😉

It seems this kit is from the 1970s.

Robert Podkoński
@ Greg: dress sequin? It is simple: you have to go to an official reception at any embassy and ask a lady in a sequined dress to dance... like James Bond used to 😄

Greg Baker Szerző
Bwahahahahaha! Now why didn't I think of that? 🙂

Robert Podkoński
If there are no embassy receptions in near future, however, you could go... I have seen sequins in few handicraft shops in my local mall.

Cuajete
Following.

Juergen Klinglhuber
I am in too,......interesting kit & model

Thomas Espe
Following too, should be interesting.

Matthew A
🚁

Greg Baker Szerző
This one's back in action.

Łukasz Gliński
Oh, wow, what a kit 😮

Erik De Smet
Always interested to see Greg tackling a kit that may be older than himself
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Matthew A
Great job on joining the two halves

Greg Baker Szerző
Hah! I was already two years old when this kit came out! I'm not sure the two sides are 100% aligned, but close. I'll mask the windows and then give it a spray to see what details can be used to adjust the fit if necessary.

Mirko Römer
Not only that vacuform kits are hard enough to master, no, it's even so tiny! At least it doesn't have the amount of rivets like the Italeri Oh-58. Great work so far!

Greg Baker Szerző
Yeah. It's tricky to be sure. After spraying it with a light coat of white, I realized I needed to readjust the alignment of the two halves. Luckily I popped them apart without breaking anything… although I did have to re-glue the cockpit back in place.

Matthew A
Coz u coulda just popped a 1:72 Wonder Woman in and left it unpainted

Cuajete
You can do it, Greg!!
How can a vacu be sanded?

Erik De Smet
@cuajete: on a flat surface, e.g. sandpaper