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  • minitnkr
    • Apr 2018
    • 7564
    • Paul
    • Dayton, OH USA

    #1

    minitnkr AH64 Apache ROCO 1/87

    My build.
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  • minitnkr
    • Apr 2018
    • 7564
    • Paul
    • Dayton, OH USA

    #2
    I've built one of these before & made a hash of it, so hopefully lessons learned. They did a very poor job on the 3cm auto cannon & do not include a crew. The paint guide has nothing for the office or the sensors so will have to search for examples. ...and so it begins.
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    • peterairfix
      • Jul 2012
      • 11080

      #3
      That's a scale you don't see very often.

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      • Lee Drennen
        SMF Supporters
        • Apr 2018
        • 7711

        #4
        Hope it works out for you Paul this time.

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        • Ian M
          Administrator
          • Dec 2008
          • 18272
          • Ian
          • Falster, Denmark

          #5
          That thing must be tiny!
          Group builds

          Bismarck

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          • Jim R
            SMF Supporters
            • Apr 2018
            • 15783
            • Jim
            • Shropshire

            #6
            Good luck this time around. I didn't image that you could buy helicopters in this scale.
            Jim

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            • minitnkr
              • Apr 2018
              • 7564
              • Paul
              • Dayton, OH USA

              #7
              Jim, ROCO offered 1/87 Hueys, Cobras, & Jolly Greens. Bananas & Chicasaws(?) are also available in 1/87, but I don't know the makers offhand.

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              • minitnkr
                • Apr 2018
                • 7564
                • Paul
                • Dayton, OH USA

                #8
                Acoupleacobras, never quite finished the Jolly Green & the incomplete Apache I gave up on. The Hueys are in the VN dio 'Buzzin the Groundlings'.
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                I'll prolly finish the Apache with the new one if I can find enough pilots & junk to do the 30s properly.

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                • The Smythe Meister
                  • Jan 2019
                  • 6248

                  #9
                  What a mean looking beast !!
                  Loving that choice Paul
                  Andy

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                  • Gary MacKenzie
                    SMF Supporter
                    • Apr 2018
                    • 1058
                    • Gary
                    • Forres , Moray , Scotland

                    #10
                    https://www.shapeways.com/product/WK...-ho-scale-1-87 , might be a source for pilots.

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                    • minitnkr
                      • Apr 2018
                      • 7564
                      • Paul
                      • Dayton, OH USA

                      #11
                      Sorry about the lack of progress, but my fingers don't work well under 58F. The cave got down to 52F at one point. Just too cold to work, so caught up on some reading.

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                      • The Smythe Meister
                        • Jan 2019
                        • 6248

                        #12
                        Originally posted by minitnkr
                        Sorry about the lack of progress, but my fingers don't work well under 58F. The cave got down to 52F at one point. Just too cold to work, so caught up on some reading.
                        No worries Paul....
                        ... It's meant to be a fun hobby,when it ceases to be that,then take time out
                        Andy

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                        • yak face
                          Moderator
                          • Jun 2009
                          • 13865
                          • Tony
                          • Sheffield

                          #13
                          Originally posted by minitnkr
                          Sorry about the lack of progress, but my fingers don't work well under 58F. The cave got down to 52F at one point. Just too cold to work, so caught up on some reading.
                          I know the feeling paul , the cold shed often slows my builds too , the irony is that when its summer and warm enough to go in the shed I’m usually sat in the sun with a beer ! ( i bet your fingers work well enough round a cold one of those ! :smiling5 cheers tony

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                          • Guest

                            #14
                            No good trying to model when it's cold Paul, you could of course attempt to sneak into the upstairs with out being caught !

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                            • minitnkr
                              • Apr 2018
                              • 7564
                              • Paul
                              • Dayton, OH USA

                              #15
                              The upstairs is full of stuff for the bathroom tear-out as the contractor had a death in the family & had to take local family down south for the services. "Bebackinaweek" he said Wednesday.

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