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. I've just created my first ever custom decals for a South Korean 1/48 AH1J SeaCobra using an EPSON SX405 inkjet printer with cheap aftermarket ink that cost less for 3 sets of colour and black cartridges than one EPSON single colour cartridge! Admittedly I only needed to print black decals and haven't tried colour decals yet but I can report that the results are flawless! Furthermore I used Humbrol Matt Cote to seal the decals instead of the proper fixing spray and it works perfectly, with no ink run and the clear decal part disappeared completely after applying over the gloss cote on the

. Where would we be without Floyd S Werner, eh? I bought his debris deflector set last year, but because I'd never worked with resin kits before I got him to send them ready prepared and what a fantastic job he did on them! . To get back on topic I would be interested in any Turkish 1/48 AH-1G, AH-1S or AH-1W decals if anyone can find a source or is capable of making some. I want the AH-1W decals more than anything but the G and S would make a nice addition too. Oh, and does anyone know if there are any Iranian 1/48 AH-1J or South Korean 1/48 AH-1J International decals anywhere? . Also,

. Yeah sure, the mistakes on the Japanese decals are as follows: 1. the roundels are the wrong size, closer to 1/72 scale than 1/48; 2. There is only one serial number supplied for the front of the fuselage when there should be two, one for each side; 3. The serial number is for a different squadron, which is IIIATH not IATH; 4. One of the Kanji on the tail boom is incorrect, however Two Bob's did make a correction sheet if you were able to get a sheet with them included; 5. The two numbers that appear on the front of the nose are missing. . I'm not sure what exactly the mistakes are f

Sorry, I have to disagree about these Two Bobs decals. Considering Fujimi/Testors did 3 separate Japanese 1/48 AH1S kits, which are readily available on Ebay even if you just buy them for the decals, I don't understand why Two Bob's didn't include Turkey or Pakistan instead of Japan and call it a Middle East User set. The Japanese decals are so full of mistakes it's not actually possible to build a Japanese Cobra with these decals (even if you do have the correction sheet that only addresses one of the mistakes). I also hear that there are mistakes on the Jordanian decals, but seeing as I have

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Does anyone make an aftermarket canopy for a 1/48 AH-1G? I want to build a couple of these but don't want to end up buying yet another Fujimi 1/48 AH-1J just for the canopy! I really can't believe there aren't any proper 1/48 AH-1G kits out there! The only ones I know are the terrible old Fujimi kits that don't even match they're later better AH-1J and S kits! All they had to do was make a new engine fairing for their AH-1J kit and voila!

Looks great so far! So much detail! Looking forward to seeing the finished item! . I'm going to build a 1/48 version with the experimental green and sand camo that the Israeli pilots really hated and only featured on two of the helicopters. I already have a 1/72 olive drab version and a 1/72 AH64D in the now standard Israeli brown and sand colour, so this will go nicely with them.

. Yeah, would make sense but why go to the bother of making sand coloured Apaches? Now that doesn't make sense cos they must know there are people like myself who notice details like that!

I've just watched the first episode of the last series of a British comedy on BBC3 called Bluestone 42, which is about a British Army bomb disposal team in Afghanistan. At the end of the program a pair of Apache Longbows flew over, painted in an overall sand colour, including the Longbow radome itself. It wasnt clear if they were AH64Ds or WAH64Ds but they did look real as opposed to c.g.i. models. Has anybody else seen this episode and do Apaches painted in that colour actually exist? I find it hard to believe the BBC would pay to have this done specifically for a two second shot when it has

. . . Perfect! Thank you very much!

. Thanks for that! I was trying to find that website for that exact reason but couldn't remember its name. I've actually got the PT23 kit winging it's way to me from Japan as we speak but its the exact same instructions. I pretty much know what I need to do but would be nice to see the exact instructions.

Does anybody have a copy of the instructions for the Hasegawa 1/48 07336 AH-64D Apache Royal Netherlands Air Force Special Marking kit that they could post here, please? I don't need the whole thing, just the main rotor assembly with the mount where the longbow radar would normally go. I'm going to build the Hasegawa 1/48 AH-64A/D World Apache kit as the Singapore version and want to build it without the radar, but the instructions I have only show it with the radar fitted.

From what I can gather, the TOW sites on the Iranian AH-1Js were built internally by the Iranians themselves and are still used on their more 'modern' Toufans, just like their latest Toufan 2s that have AH-1S style flat plate canopies and AH-1Z style laser designators, but are obviously still just rehashed AH-1Js. Made me laugh when they released images of these because they claimed they had built a totally new helicopter! May have a go at building one of these if i can source an AH-1Z from somewhere.

I'm wanting to build a South Korean 1/48 or maybe 1/72 AH1J SeaCobra but am struggling to find any decent images. I've managed to find an image of one at a museum in South Korea n have managed to make some decals of the roundels and army hangul (korean symbols) on the boom and numbers on the tail but don't have any images of other markings normally visible on such helicopters. Does anyone have any decent images or know what other markings would be present? Thanks.

. Thats exactly what I wanted! Spot on! Thank you so much!

Yeah, I'd love to see a 1/72 kit, but considering there isn't even a kit of an AW129 Mangusta/TAI T129 ATAK or a Denel Rooivalk I wouldn't put much hope on one!

I have an old Italeri 1/72 Eurocopter Tiger PAH2 (the German version) that I built years ago and I want to turn it into the French HAP version that Italeri released at the same time with the exact same parts. I even have the original gun for the French version! I seem to remember Italeri printed a full colour paint guide on the back of the box. Does anyone have an image of this for the HAP version that they could post here please, or at least does anyone know what the paint numbers were for the two tone brown colour scheme? Tamiya did a similar Tiger HAP at around the same time so an image of

. I'm actually using this model as my paint guide, having found a real pic of a two tone grey Mi28n, but he doesn't say exactly what paint numbers he used. I found out that Humbrol Matt 140 Gull Grey was a close enough match to his dark grey and an old tin of Humbrol Gloss 40 Pale Grey seemed to match the light grey but a new tin of the same colour is totally wrong! I've contacted Humbrol to ask why this is, just waiting for a reply now.

. I actually have that decal sheet already! I used it to make the original Mi28a in the overall gloss olive drab - had to make the black patch on the side of the rear fuselage myself though, but glad I bought the sheet cos I also used it to finish my black Zvezda Ka-52 cos the decals that came with that were dreadful (stay away from that kit completely!) . It does mention the paint colours for White 14 but no paint manufacturer numbers but thanks for the reply anyway!

Anybody built the 1/72 Revell Mi-28N Havoc, White 14 and, if so, what colours (FS numbers or Humbrol/Model Master paint numbers) did you use for the camo scheme? I'm struggling with this one cos the paint mix they say to use for the light colour paint doesn't match the colour on the box lid or side images at all. It comes out as a pale green instead of a light sandy brown with a faint hint of green colour? What should the correct colours be for White 14 anyway? I've seen a couple of other camo schemes for White 14, one being a two tone brown scheme and the other a two tone grey scheme, which

. Well, considering most of the Wembley games are usually away team blowouts cos we keep getting home teams that are crap and need the revenue from a guaranteed sell-out, that game on Sunday was to be expected! I'm not complaining cos I had great fun booing the Raiders from the stands! Didn't know supporting the Dolphins for a day could be such good fun! If the Raiders coaching staff put in as much effort preparing for the game as some of their fans did they might get somewhere one day! . Next stop Falcons v Lions! First game I'll have been to where I'll actually be supporting the home team

I'd like to know if U.S.A.F. and U.S.N. recruiting went down when they grounded the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels (last year wasn't it)? How much did they save on the budget doing that, or rather, how many top brass dinners did they manage to save instead? They talked about grounding the Red Arrows here but knew there would be a national outcry if they did!

. I could never get the hang of Gunship but Gunship 2000 was one of the best flight sims ever! Whatever happened to MicroProse anyway?

Looks like Top Gun 2 is going ahead afterall, something to do with drones v pilots n Tom Cruise is in it! Chuck in Lou Gosset jr, Owen Wilson, a few F-16s and F-18s and voila: Behind Top Stealth Eagle 5! Did I forget Danny Glover? Okay, make it Behind Top Stealth Eagle Intruder 5!

. Check out 'The Innkeepers'. Didnt realise the old woman was Kelly McGillis till the end credits! Realising that was creepier than the plot! Actually, having gone back thru this thread that pic of old McGillis looks like it was from The Innkeepers anyway.