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Noice. Into the cart they go.

Noice! I have bought other sets from Jonathan and his work is great and a smooth transaction. 👍👍 I will order this set next week. Those empty TOW racks look nice as well. I second Jon’s comment about G items also. I would buy some.

Awesome looking Shitter Jon! 👍

👍👍 Another good option is Furball Decals https://www.furballaero-design.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=48-012 Cannot go wrong with either company.

Another great book Mason. 👍👍 I got that and new Zulu decals. Looking forward to the next release.

Here is videos that might help. About 1:06 in he is talking about making the wet stains with semi gloss. Two other ideas are Liquidtex gloss medium or Vallejo Water Effects. In very small/thinned amounts. These might be too “wet” of a look. You can play with adding a dull coat over to knock it down a little. HTH and look forward to seeing more.

On a paint mule or test sheet of styrene, paint the same as this project and test adding just odorless mineral spirit. You can add maybe burnt sienna oil point to the mix. To change up the spots and see how that looks.

That’s a good looking build. 👍👍

Good looking Shaitter. 👍👍

Micro Liquid decal film is what Phantom mentioned. 👍 https://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=03bdf9be23f60219ee7584485c73b860&Screen=PROD&Store_Code=MD&Product_Code=MI-12&Category_Code=FINPROD

Doh! Where is the door.

Yes, 2014 timeframe is what I could find.

Looks great. 👍

Good looking build. 👍👍

As I recall none of the Trumpeter/Hobby Boss kits have the hind twist. A fuzzy thought is saying one of them does but I cannot recall which one. Not the 1/72 Hobby Boss Hind. Only the Zvezda kits have it. To me that is a big issue that is hard for a modeler to fix. I think there is other smaller detail issues that I don’t remember off hand.

A option is Archer rivets, Quinta Studios or micro mark. Eduard as a set for the Hind. Something like this can be used to restore damaged rivets. Not cheap or easy in most cases but do able. One thing I have used on my armor kits and a car instead of those traditional putty’s where the filling and sanding is done is to use Vallejo putty and q-tip to fill the seem and limit damage around the area. It a more gentle approach. Limited putty, let it sit a few minutes then remove with a damp q-tip. If you need more wait, I give it day and then reapply with even less putty. Anothe

I agree. We are on the same page with our desire what we want from manufacturers. I was just curious when that is not provide, of the options generalized raised rivets, divots or naked what is next best? I feel that if they are not going to do it correctly that, maybe naked is next best option as it is the least work if one attempts to add rivets themselves. I am not suggesting that helicopter modelers should settle for less than other genres. We should be able to get accuracy in our kits.

As my friend Sir Mix would say. That is a way someone could do it but I think most would say no unless that is favorite version. Curious Gabor, since most manufacturers don’t seem to want to provide raised rivets, do you prefer divots or naked? While raised rivets would be more accurate, would a company go with a single size and general layout or provide different sizes and an accurate layout. I think most would take the easy route for many reasons, so would that be better or worse with general rivets or naked? In many ways I think naked is a better course if acc

Excellent points. I guess we wait til it’s on the street to assess its finer points.

I like the idea but I am concerned about the execution.

Noice!

There wasn’t any flying Bull Phrogs that were young. Most were over the drinking age and then some before being converted. Interesting markings on the reserve scheme. I don’t recall seeing two squadrons on a helo like that before. Older reserve planes might have Navy or Marine on one side as they shared aircraft at a reserve flightline.

Great looking build. 👍👍

I second Dutch, beautiful Phrogs!

Are you sure it’s the F sprue? That is the sponson sprue. They could release the Navy MH kit and a entertaining company could release smaller sponsons to make a Marine Echo kit. So the kit wouldn’t be gone, just not as easily built. If it’s another sprue like the A sprue, fuselage that would be a different store.