Hajo L.

I hope your motivation rises after completing the kit... :P HAJO

Ehm, thanks, but the helo is in Lübeck and not in Kiel... I will try to do the pictures with my camera or use one of the work-cameras. Please send me your mail-adress or we can meet somewhere in Kiel (near the university? I live and work there) and I will bring/send you a Roco M2. HAJO

Thank you, thank you... :unsure: I will hopefully be able to shoot some better pictures this weekend. HAJO

I hate to say it, but you applied the winged star wrong side up! On the other hand a perfectly fine helo! HAJO

Yeah, will be able to work on it in about one and a half week, the model is in Lübeck, while I´m in Kiel, working on some different stuff. HAJO

Ja ja, ist ja gut..... :) Wird gemacht! (Translation: I´m going to do a german Marineflieger Merlin). @ICE225: Where are you from? I´m born in Lübeck and now I live in Kiel... HAJO

I have the Italeri EH-101 HAS Merlin in 1/72 sitting on my workbench. So far I´m only sure that I won´t finish it in the OOB markings in a boring single-tone grey... I´m thinking about two options: 1. Doing a RN Merlin, but giving it a neat two tone grey camoflage, similar to the Tiger Meet-version from Revell, or even do a three tone camo in different greys. 2. Doing a german navy Merlin (we need to get a new helo for our Seakings and the MH-90 looks like it needs another 10 years until he enters service... :) ), similar camoflage like the Seaking, so it would have two greys and a dar

Two more pictures, I suck at taking photographies... (must be due to my camera, I never heard any complaints from my editor of the newspaper I work for as a freelance-journalist ) HAJO

Yeah, the money for those decals was definetely well spent! I have to admit that when I came home this weekend to continue working on the helo I wasn´t very motivated. I was more looking forward to start the next kit, an EH-101 Merlin. But since I usually bring things to an end first I started my work on the Seaking by adding the "shadow-line" along the line where the old-scheme breaks up in the new-scheme, using thinned black. Then a coat of future for a smooth surface for the decals. Then came the decals, first the pecker of the eagle under the nose of the helo. Well, went OK, so I cont

Like last time, pictures first, description later... I´m nearly finished, boy, these decals are COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! HAJO

It´s done! The HH-53 received a final coat of matt and I added the tanks. He´s just looking great, I think. HAJO

Yep, indeed, no one would notice it, even if you told him where to look! What C-130 are you planning to build? HAJO

Hey, that´s why I put this kind of "instruction" in here! You are more than welcome to copy or even enhance my method! But in that case please inform us how and what you did... :) @All the others: Thank you for the kind words! Sorry for the abuse of an ambulance, but that thing was just too ugly. :) HAJO

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Now the next Stepp, the application of a camo-net fort he TWO-Humvee. I´m using some mesh as you can find it in a first aid kit. Cut into nice little pieces and glue it on the model, using wood-glue (my favorite: PONAL). Since PONAL is water bases, you can easily thin it with more water. I did so and applied this water/glue-mixture on the mesh, forming it in the way a net would hang on the vehicle. While the mesh ist still wet, I apply this stuff I don´t know an english word for (in german, it´s "Streugut"). It´s usually for model-railways, where you use it to make gras. It´s basic

This last weekend I spent with doing either flights-imming or modelling, so the Humvees got some treatment. I added some of the armory (the MK-19) and the SATCOM-antennas. The newly installed TOW-launcher, using the parts of a Dragon Humvee. The rest of the crew, on the left the driver, machine-gunner and the TOW-operator, the figure on the right is the MK-19 operator. Lots of equipment and stuff added, coming mostly out of my Roco-sparebox and from Goffy Models (bags and rucksacks). Also a first layer of green for both vehicles.

These are two Humvees I´m building at the moment, using the RoG "TOW and Ambulance Humvee"-set. :) The kits are great and I will do them as special forces humvees: The former ambulance humvee: As you can see, I used a lot of simple plastic rods to do some kind of crash-cage that is also holding the hatch with the launcher. Both Humvees can be seen here. After I did all the main conversions of the former ambulance who will later carry the TOW-launcher, I started the other one who will carry a MK.19 grenade launcher. The modelling of the crew is usually the most time-consuming process.

Ok, some words on the progress and the techniques I used. As you can see, I painted the whole helo now, using Humbrols day-glo red. I´m not sure if it should have been a bit more orange than red, but it´s ok in my eyes. The biggest problem if you do a paint-scheme like this without using an airbrush is to get the small contrast between the upper grey part, representing to old paint scheme of the germany naby Sakings, and the the three-tone camo. I first added a thin black line using an "Edding"-pen and then toned it down a little bit by painting a thin layer of grey over it. I will also try

Ah, the same decal-sheet I used for my F-101! Those are really excellent decals, just be careful when you use any decal-setter, mine (Mr. Mark Softer) left some marks on the decals when some of the colors on them "melted" away. HAJO

OK, some progress - on both: Seaking and Humvees! But I will post the Humvee-pics in the "non-aircraft"-section later. As you can see I have made some guge steps without documentating them with pictures. And several hours later, it looks like this: Sorry, it´s a bit late over here and I don´t feel like talking much, I will post some more commentary later and hopefully answer any questions that will rise so far. HAJO

OK, I corrected the yellow tail-band and also already applied the majority of the decals. So far I´m not sure if I keep the black stripes on the yellow band like they are now or broaden them up by applying a second stripe on each side. As you can see, some areas, especially all the black exhaust-spots and so need a final touch-up with the original grey again. HAJO

Please keep us updated on the progress and post some pictures, I built the Atlantic some years ago and hardly ever saw anyone else working/completing the model. If you do a MFG 3-version, be careful with the white roundels on the engines: I applied the decals without a white base-coat and now the contrast-line between grey and white is visible... HAJO

Please keep us updated on the progress and post some pictures, I built the Atlantic some years ago and hardly ever saw anyone else working/completing the model. If you do a MFG 3-version, be careful with the white roundels on the engines: I applied the decals without a white base-coat and now the contrast-line between grey and white is visible... HAJO

Please keep us updated on the progress and post some pictures, I built the Atlantic some years ago and hardly ever saw anyone else working/completing the model. If you do a MFG 3-version, be careful with the white roundels on the engines: I applied the decals without a white base-coat and now the contrast-line between grey and white is visible... HAJO