Hajo L.

Out of curiosity I checked myself - and fasteagle12 is damn right! 😉 HAJO

Both kits are featured on scalemates: https://www.scalemates.com/de/kits/italeri-2774-h-21c-flying-banana-gunship--1029914 https://www.scalemates.com/de/kits/italeri-2733-h-21c-shawnee-flying-banana--979871 And both sites contain a link to the instructions - they will surely give you an idea what ist different... HAJO

Then I was lucky with mine and had a less deformed part - but thank you for posting your solution to the problem here! HAJO

Concerning the clear parts: I think it' a problem of all AC-130-kits by Zvesda. I had it, and I think every other builder here who bought the kit as well. Fortunately they can be corrected quite easily, either by water as Jost did, or simply by glueing them on the fuselage section by section as I did. HAJO

As usual: Awesome! I'm really looking forward to the mentioned new major project! 🙂 HAJO

Very nice! Any chance to get a look inside the refueling-pods from behind? And how did you do the chaff/flare-launchers on the sponsons? Or did I just miss that step in your in-progress thread? HAJO

Brilliant - I love it! HAJO

Great idea! HAJO

What an awful adventure! I can't imagine what kind of a loss this means... May I ask what are you going to do now? Build again at the same spot? HAJO

Off to a great start! I built Rodens NC-123K a while ago... It´s ugly, but cool looking! HAJO

Awesome, excellent work! I was already wondering where you are... 😉 Good to see you back at the workbench! HAJO

The next one will be another Talon II or are you going for a Talon I as well? HAJO

I love the small details! What scheme will you paint on this Talon? The modern two-grey or the older "Lizzard/Europe One"? HAJO

Thanks for this! Please keep us updated with pictures (speaking of pictures - your second picture-link is not working...). I plan to purchase the Chinook as well, but will model it into a "Cold War gone hot"-version that may let me do a couple of "unrealistic" things with the kit which would not apply on a "real" bird. HAJO

Another awesome project - looking forward to the progress! HAJO

Please don't take this as a critic! Your models are great and perfect in my eyes and I would love to be able to work with a standard that you already show here. I just thought that the reinforcment stripes look more prominent on this EC-130 than on your german KC-130. HAJO

Simply awesome! One thing, though: Are you happy with the strength of the reinforcement stripes on the fuselage? I'd say they are a bit too thick... HAJO

If I had known about this question, I had asked the friendly crew member when I visited a CH-53GA on the Berlin Air show today... He mentioned that the GA we were touring is 50 years old and I think I remember that the GA-version is an earlier update, meaning that the GS is of a newer standard. However, it already had MFDs on the instrument panel. HAJO

I have to say that I'm not sure about the second, very grey green I see here... Are you sure about that particular color? HAJO

I would love to, but the other 4 are in my hometown at my parents place and the latest one is here in Berlin with me... HAJO

I want to show you my latest "big one", which fits into a series of several bigger aircraft presented here. It´s the AC-130J Ghostrider, and there has already been a very excellent build shown here, which served as inspiration for me and many others. I built this model to 1. test the Zvesda kit for another project, and 2. because it´s a Gunship! And I love Gunships, if I recall correctly its my 5th C-130 Gunship... I did not bother much with interior details, since the aircraft is pretty much closed up, although I added some details in the cockpit, for exam

Thanks, very interesting! HAJO

Will you show pictures? I'm quite interested. HAJO

All I can say is that I didn´t saw any on my various pictures I collected for my upcoming Cpmbat Talon I-build. Are you planning to build a MC-130? HAJO

I used a lightened up version of Revells Acrylic 65 and think the colour is quite matching the original bird. HAJO