My favourite scale is normally 1:48 or 1:32, but when I saw Academy's 1:72 KC-97 L, I
couldn't resist to make an exception and I started to build this model straight out of the box without any problems.
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From the start I was sure to give this bird a nice natural metal finish by plating the model with simple kitchen aluminium foil. Again I was
surprised how realistic such a finish looks like even on smaller scale models. But I must confess that I
didn't realize that a prop driven aircraft model was much more work than a jet (my special field of interest). But it was worth the extra time I had to
spend on this project. There honestly is not much more to say after I had explained my plating technique in previous articles, I'll let the pictures do the talking.