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Ant Ricco (anthonyricco)
ZA

1/48 Italeri Bell AB-212 / UH-1N

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34 19 June, 07:34
Neuling
Well done! The extra work on detailing really paid off.
19 June, 07:46
Rui S
Beautiful work, indeed 👍
19 June, 21:31
Akaidada
NICE BRO!
20 June, 00:41
Desert Marlin
Nice work! Very interesting subject that looks like an award winner!
20 June, 03:07
Bob Hall
Hungarian ?
20 June, 03:14
Ant Ricco
Thanks everyone - no @Bob its Italian.
20 June, 08:24
Bob Hall
Very nice indeed !👍
20 June, 19:23

Album info

I enjoyed this kit so so much, what a beautiful helicopter. As always it needed a few upgrades but those are what makes it individual and interesting.

I decided to do the Italian ISAF version that was used in Afghanistan.

I started out in the cockpit adding some seatbelts using chocolate foil wrapping (that was a nice treat) and I cut the buckles from plastic and painted them.

The instrument panels were pained and detailed up and the seats added inn, I dirtied up the main area's floor to show some heavy usage.

The seats in the main bay looked very empty and bland so I decided to do a little extra work and add in seatbelts to them as well using the same method, I then added some extras to add some detail like, wire coils, radio wires.

Then onto painting with black basing - adding the mottling with shades of grey, with reds and browns in the grey and yellow and greens in the green.

One detail I noticed on the helicopters that weren't present in the kit were the ring hooks beneath the helicopter. I wanted to find away to add them, and after a lot of trial and brain wracking I cut a plastic q-tip and found the perfect ring, glued it to a piece of plastic card and had the perfect hooks.

Then finishing off with decals, weathering and finishing touches. What a fun build. I absolutely loved it. You can follow the build log at imodeler.com/groups/..ic_page=1&num=15

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1:48 Bell AB 212/UH-1N (Italeri 2692)

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