Academy 1/48 AH64 A

[kpnuts]

Hi ok so I ordered a gundam as some relief from the Cutty Sark bare with me, after scanning the stash for some light relief nothing took my fancy so I ordered a gundam (never built one before and it looked fun)

Would be delivered by the 6th, now it's the 30th rescan of the stash, hey I've never built a helicopter before, how hard could that be, might even be fun.

Answer very hard, anyway onwards and upwards.

[bisc63]

Off to a nice start. Wicked machine.

[kpnuts]

Well this was supposed to be light relief from the Cutty Sark I think I will be doing the Cutty as light relief from this. What an awful kit I thought sorting the mistakes my brother did on the Cutty was a challenge that was a walk in the park.

Anyway here is progress so far.

[kpnuts]

 

Anyway what a load of rubbish this kit is (wish I hadn't started it)

After herculean efforts to get the landing gear pods to fit I thought I had it then after priming the b#$$%y thing pinged apart again.

The cockpit glass is a stupid 3 part thing which I managed eventually to glue together only to find after priming it had pinged apart again (I only hope that was after the primer and the cockpit isn't full of primer.

Edited April 19 by kpnuts

[kpnuts]

Kits like this should be banned.

I like to think I'm an ok modeller but I'm really struggling with this pig of a kit, if I were a youngster with no experience in modelling I would have given up and probably never touched a kit again.

Dont these kit manufacturers realise when they release a kit like this they're shooting themselves in the foot, every new modeler is potentially lost with a kit like this.

I'm just glad I decided before I started building it I was going to depict it blowing up.

[kpnuts]

More work on this one.

[kpnuts]

Hi all did some work on the explosion and added some decals

 

Hoping it will look a bit like this (maybe not so big)

[El Roberto]

Yep some kits are just pigs, no amount of lipstick will make them look good.  You need to find out how old a kit is.  The early Academy molds really suck while the later are much much better.  I recently finished a Academy 1/72 scale F/A 18 and it was a very nice kit. 

I see it's diving into the toilet.   Saw a YouTube video where a guy got so fed up, he stuck a model car in a blender and turned it on. 

Edited May 10 by El Roberto
added info

[kpnuts]

Hi all nearing the explosion.