Helo-Engineer Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Well, I’m finishing up finals this week and will have some time to work on a passion project of mine. I was an Apache Mechanic and Crew chief in the Army and deployed to Afghanistan 7/2010-7/2011. After that I was back in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor performing phase maintenance in 2012. I’m starting with this excellent looking kit and a few upgrades. The Aires cockpit looks pretty nice so far and the Eduard photo etch does too. There are a few issues with the accuracy of this kit though. Specifically with the engine nacelles and some of the other panels. Another issue is that we had late block II aircraft, and this kit is missing some of the upgrades that were done. That’s me under the watchful eyes of a SGT learning to launch out aircraft. I would end up doing this close to a thousand times that year. The most obvious component missing is the ASPI exhaust. I searched everywhere for the Has AH-64E that had these parts, but to no avail. So, my only real option is to make them myself. I’m collecting as many photos as I can from friends for reference, but I also have this. The 1:72 Academy Lat Block II is fairly close to the real birds we had, with only a few issues. At least the ASPI exhausts appear to be correct. I can also make the proper M-TADS, CPG cockpit mods, CMWS, etc. I also noticed that the Academy kit has the ASPI exhaust, but keeps the ALQ-144 and it is missing a flare dispenser. Which is wrong. This will probably be fairly slow, but I’m looking forward to starting on the exhaust 3D models. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Air one Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Hi! Did you manage to get the ASPI exhaust done ? We definitely need them in 1/48…. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
arnobiz Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 BAM Models is nearly done with them, the SR-71 releases came in the way but they'll come soon hopefully 🙂 Arnaud Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawkwrench Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 On 4/14/2022 at 4:53 AM, arnobiz said: BAM Models is nearly done with them, the SR-71 releases came in the way but they'll come soon hopefully 🙂 Arnaud Got any pics of the exhaust in progress? Tim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
arnobiz Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 There you go, prototype fresh out of the printer 😉. Full set should be available by end of next week, I'll post an announcement on BAM Models's ARC page 🙂 Arnaud Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 On 5/29/2022 at 12:13 PM, arnobiz said: There you go, prototype fresh out of the printer 😉. Full set should be available by end of next week, I'll post an announcement on BAM Models's ARC page 🙂 Arnaud Very impressive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
arnobiz Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Thanks! The ASPI exhausts are now released, divided into 3 parts to make painting easy 🙂 https://bam-models.com/product-category/ah-64/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Air one Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 1 hour ago, arnobiz said: Thanks! The ASPI exhausts are now released, divided into 3 parts to make painting easy 🙂 https://bam-models.com/product-category/ah-64/ Can't wait to get those ones !!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawkwrench Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 On 6/16/2022 at 1:27 PM, arnobiz said: Thanks! The ASPI exhausts are now released, divided into 3 parts to make painting easy 🙂 https://bam-models.com/product-category/ah-64/ Any chance you can make the Upturned Exhausts in 1/35 for the KH H-60??? Tim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
arnobiz Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, hawkwrench said: Any chance you can make the Upturned Exhausts in 1/35 for the KH H-60??? Tim Not anytime soon, that's more up @Floyd S. Werner, Jr.'s alley 😉 Edited June 20, 2022 by arnobiz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Floyd S. Werner, Jr. Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 11 hours ago, arnobiz said: Not anytime soon, that's more up @Floyd S. Werner, Jr.'s alley 😉 We'll see. These look great and I ordered a set as soon as I heard of it. Great job Floyd Quote Link to post Share on other sites
arnobiz Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 27 minutes ago, Floyd S. Werner, Jr. said: We'll see. These look great and I ordered a set as soon as I heard of it. Great job Floyd I freaked out when I saw your order, I hope you like them!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Floyd S. Werner, Jr. Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 16 minutes ago, arnobiz said: I freaked out when I saw your order, I hope you like them!! I'm sure I will love them. Now just to find time to build an Apache. Great job. Floyd Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Helo-Engineer Posted September 6, 2023 Author Share Posted September 6, 2023 Wow, those look awesome! I wasn't able to get to these with life getting in the way. Moving, new job, etc. Getting back into modeling again now that things have slowed down. Need to pick up those exhausts! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 Just keep in mind, the full ASPI upgrade also included the 5 missile warning sensors and 2 additional flare dispensers. No idea if those parts are included with the Hasegawa kit or not. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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