Trojan Thunder

Progressing nicely Jost

Thanks all, Yes @AD-4N, 16 years buried in the snow and ice. AN amazing effort to recover and re-fly it.

1/72 Testors LC-130F with Ron's Resin engines, Attack Squadron flaps and Cutting Edge skis. Decals by Max Decal.

This is the Italeri kit (Testors boxing) built as an LC-130F of the United States Navy. It represents 148321 which crashed in 1971 at an ice runway 860 miles (1,380 km) from McMurdo Station as a result of two JATO bottles ejecting improperly and striking one of the aircraft's propellers. In 1987 the aircraft was dug out of the snow and had temporary repairs carried out allowing it to be flown out to McMurdo Station and thence to Christchurch, New Zealand. It re-entered service and spent several more seasons doing antarctic work. The aircraft was retired to Davis-Monthan AFB sometime after

Great job Chris, those intake covers are a minor work of art! 🏆

Looks like a 777 to me!

Lovel it Fred. great job. I will be referring to your work in progress thread when I attempt mine

Lovel it Fred. great job. I'm sure you will sort out the cabin door decal issue soon as well.

I like it!, I have one in the stash and was wondering which scheme to build it in. Looks like the metallic one is the way to go!

Excellent! You are building up a great collection of the special mission 135s

Another great effort, thanks for sharing

Nice job Chris!

Found it in a Reddit post by Jennings

That's right Paul, up to 26 airframes to be procured starting in 2025. Link to article

Good to know about the wing seam issue Fred, I've got an -800 and P-8 in the stash and will apply this reinforcement when I attack them.

Don't forget the UK are also getting 3 airframes. I have the Welsh Models kit which will do fine for me ( for now 😄 )

Another ouch! from me. On the bright side the decaling looks great! 🏆

Looking like a Herc now, the props look good

This is the original tooling of the 1/72 Airfix C-130 kit. I have built it as a USAF HC-130N CSAR aircraft or as the USAF puts it "the only dedicated fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform in the Air Force inventory". To build the HC-130N I added a added consoles and cabinets to the cockpit Tasman Models AN/ARD-17 Aerial Tracker Radome, inflight refuelling Hose Reel units from Flightpath and propellors from an Italeri C-130 kit. I also added the observer windows in the main cabin, the recover system rails and flare chutes on the upper ramp door and various antennas as seen on the aircraft

This is the original tooling of the Airfix C-130 kit. I have built it as a USAF HC-130N CSAR aircraft. I added consoles and cabinets to the cockpit, Tasman Models AN/ARD-17 Aerial Tracker Radome, inflight refuelling Hose Reel units from Flightpath and propellers from an Italeri C-130 kit. I also added the observer windows in the main cabin, the recovery system rails and flare chutes on the upper ramp door and various antennas as seen on the aircraft. The HF antenna wires are Eziline. The decals are from the C-130 Herc sheet by Caracal Models and walkway outline decals from an Italeri AC-130 ki

Scale?

Thanks, I have found them.

Sizes are: United States Air Force: 58mm x 3mm USAF: 56mm x 17mm You'll have to convert to inches if necessary

Like the AP-3C it replaced I expect it will be a satin/semi gloss finish, I left it glossed as I liked the look of it.

Nice model and I love the scheme, it is very different to your run of the mill Gripens!