paulsbrown

Hey y'all, I'm trying to close up my MH-60A Super 62 and was wondering if anyone has any good references/guides for wiring up the M134s - meaning exactly where to attach the wires on the guns themselves. Any and all help appreciated!

Good photo and another scheme(?) it seems if my photo below is the same aircraft. I'm more likely to build this scheme highly weathered than the mottled finish. This time add differently spotted Maverick and AN/ALQ-119.

My bad, I got excited with the topic. I have considered this scheme with another Tamiya that I have been preparing. I thought that the white over black could be gently built up with the airbrush but to avoid the soft 'look' of airbrushing (and those airframes' paint jobs had a rough and weathered look) one could do some fine grade sanding over the layers of white. Perhaps starting with a good strong lacquer type black primer base with a weaker acrylic white sprayed on top to aid in the 'roughing up' process and losing the fuzzy all airbrush look.

I'm no mean hand with an airbrush but managed to do this early scheme ok. If you sturdy lots of photos you'll see the aircraft themselves had a lot of overspray, mottled schemes were refreshed and altered. I think the holed paper stencil sounds like a lot of trouble.

Looks Aussie!

Thanks all, I suspect we'll have a few injection molded before too long.

It's fantastic. Go on....!

Got another photo or two of that Marine scheme Apache? Looks pretty good.

Thanks! Here's an earlier cockpit stage, the Collect-Aire had the more accurate cockpit wells so I used it as a template for the HB. I made a resin copy of the HB instrument panel for the Collect-Aire as it was a bit small and wouldn't match PAV2. Sanded down the topside hump beyond the intake (the white Miliput was used just in case I sanded too deep) and lengthened intakes on HB

You'll want to tackle the rear part of the cockpit and the intake shapes for starters.

Thanks!

Thanks everyone! I'm looking into a simple build now after that long project.

I based the build on 2022 Ka-52s in action in Ukraine with the red stars, bort and registration numbers were all covered up. The Russians don’t seem to be so concerned with hiding aircraft ID in action in 2023. Camouflages of aircraft in action vary with glossy mustard tan and green newly built aircraft sporting colorful bort numbers and stars to the subdued example below. I used the Italeri Ka-50 and Neomega Ka-52 conversion (sadly not the Arma-Models 3d printed kit) Neomega get the ball rolling with its conversion set but leaves a lot of things out. Studying photograph

Thanks Dutch, Norm DUbay and skyhawk174! That build was a bit Frankenstein, Aires wheel sponsons, Monogram tail.... Look forward to it. Any artwork for the sheet's depicted aircraft yet?

This is gonna be good.