DONE - Bell AH-1F Cobra Flying Bulls

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March 28, 2020
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March 28, 2020
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March 28, 2020
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March 28, 2020
The Revell Cobra Cockpit is quite empty - tried to bring somemore "life" into it be checking out some Cockpit pictures.
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March 28, 2020
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March 28, 2020
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March 28, 2020
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May 1, 2020
Ready to join the 2 parts of the fuselage - This time I put some weight under the seats 🙂
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May 3, 2020
Getting closer to the paint job. Started to apply the Cockpit windows.
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May 3, 2020
I spend the whole evening to fit those two parts together - the LH Window showed a warpage and a collision with the cover of the front dash board did the rest. It made me almost mad to figure out the "best fit".
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May 3, 2020
It took ages, but finally - done.
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May 1, 2020
The assembly of the 3barreled cannon is done,....
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May 3, 2020
Now I have to exchange the "original" parts with the "new" ones.
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May 7, 2020
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May 7, 2020
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June 14, 2020
A pretty greasy bird - gloss black and ready for decals.
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June 14, 2020
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June 14, 2020
Hours later - right hand side finished.....
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September 6, 2020
decals finished, quite nice and greasy...
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September 6, 2020
top coat finished - de-greased the hole thing to a semi gloss appearance.
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September 6, 2020
preparing some light lenses
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September 6, 2020
add some colour
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September 6, 2020
and bring it in position.
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September 6, 2020
right hand position lights in place
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October 4, 2020
View of the backward light
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October 4, 2020
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October 4, 2020
Three barreled gun ready to get attached.
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October 4, 2020
The bird on the bench. It was all still too unique black and shiny. I tried to give some live to this "toy-like appearence" model. I hope that it'not over done when I have finished this process.
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October 22, 2020
DONE !
It took some time, but....
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October 22, 2020
...finally finished.
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October 22, 2020
My first 1/48 experience....
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October 22, 2020
...was quite interesting. Maybe not the last one... 😉

Juergen Klinglhuber Автор
Gents - I know that some of you have that bird on stash and thinking about to start glueing. So here some experience I made: decals went on pretty easy, but the instructions show some typos. So make sure you cut per "picture" and not per number shown. Plus: Check twince upfront decaling the vertical tail fin - you need to put some alu paint on the housing of the tailrotor drive. All the other decals have it printed on the sheet. The "R" on the brand name comes without - I have no clue why(?). See picture above - 2/3 of the black bubble you see there needs to be painted upfront decaling.

25 June 2020, 18:06

Juergen Klinglhuber Автор
the finishing line is coming closer,....

6 September 2020, 10:44

Stefan Fraundorfer
Super Ergebnis Jürgen! Deine Cobra gefällt mir sehr gut. Weißt du übrigens was aus dem Original nach dem Unfall geworden ist?

22 October 2020, 17:55

Juergen Klinglhuber Автор
Danke, Stefan.
Leider tut sich da gar nichts - das letzte was ich hörte war das "Blacky" Schwarz meinte dass sie repariert werden sollte. Allerdings ist das 2017 gewesen - seither Funkstille. Wäre schade darum,......

22 October 2020, 18:03