Hello
All,
I
thought I would send in some pics of my old OH-58A Kiowa. It's a very old kit
from Italaerei (Yes at this time Italeri was called Italaerei). Originally from
IMC, it was re-issued by Hawk,Testor, Italaerei, then re-reissued by Revell
I
built it in 1983, I was a young modeler at this time. I had no PC, no access to
the web and just 3 photos of a Kiowa
Of
course, not enough reference material to do a good job. It's why you can see a
few inaccuracies:
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I didn't modify the rotor diameter nor the tail boom length, (the original kit is a civilian Bell 206 JET RANGER)
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I had no idea on how the inside of the military aircraft looked, so I installed the civilian seats with a scratch build instrument panel.
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The inside color match perfectly with the reference photo ... but the color of the photo was wrong
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The shape of the windshield was completely wrong. I made a new windshield vacuformed on a plaster form. The first years the windshield was clear as crystal. But after a few years the
plastic became yellowish and it becomes increasingly brownish and opaque. It is really time to rebuild my Kiowa!