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Academy released
this nice kit more than one year ago filling part of the gap regarding I would have a detailed kit, so I improved the interior, adding cables, pipes and boxes. I also added holes on the floor and seat belts. The cockpit was superdetailed adding the correct instruments made of styrene sheets and the seats were improved with new armour plates and a suspension system.
I knew the details were not visible when the model was finished, but I wanted tp make them anyway....
All the exhausts
were drilled and the protection nets were added looking more realistic. The external job consisted of making all the rivets (unfortunately not more visible after the coats of paint and Futurewere applied...) new armour plates on the tail and filling some panels not present on the real heli. Landing gears received some more work, too (add the retention rings!!!!)
I painted the kit using the Life Colors paints finding them very nice. I add a non-salts water since there are some rumors that acrylic paints are suffering of chlorine present in drinking water. Decals are not very nice since they were not so thin. As usual I used water + some drops of vinegar in order to soften the decals.
A particular nice job was made by Xtracolor matt over the Future
coats: I found it very nice! Maurizio Italy
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Photos and text © by Maurizio Bressan
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