midnightprowler Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Atlantis has reissued the old Aurora Cheyenne kit. https://www.megahobby.com/products/ah-56a-cheyenne-us-army-helicopter-formerly-aurora-1-72-atlantis-models.html?utm_source=3%2F14%2F20&utm_campaign=UA-5732446-1&utm_medium=email Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JohnEB Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 (edited) At the risk of showing my age, I built one of the original Aurora releases in the early '70s. For those of you too young to remember, by the late '60s, Aurora really " 'upped their game" and made some nice kits. As an example, I heartily preferred their HH-3 kit over the similar scale Revell offering because it didn't come with hundreds of rivets. It's a very nice kit, it went together well, as I recall I only needed a bit of putty to seal a gap in the nose in front of the windscreen. Good glass fit, retractable landing gear. Excellent decals for a prototype ship. You could make it in gloss OD or a fantasy three color scheme or even a scene worn by later Cobras or early Apaches. Edited March 15, 2020 by JohnEB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
midnightprowler Posted March 15, 2020 Author Share Posted March 15, 2020 The only other kit out there that I am aware of is a resin kit by Aningrad I think it is, and it's heavily based on this kit. Not likely we'll ever see a new tool. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skyhawk174 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Well this is good news. One good thing about all of this is that the plastic would be new and the decals too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Eric2020 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Perfect to have this kit re-issued! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
davecww1 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Just picked up this kit over the weekend. Decent looking kit for the time that it came out, rotor and tail blades will definitely need thinning down the trailing edges. Looking at photos on the web, it should have a large louvered vent on the left side. Also the cockpit is very simplified, will need a lot if scratchbuilding to bring it up to modern standards. Also the canopy should be bulged out on both sides, not sure how to represent this without carving a new one and vacuform molding the windows. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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