The new Advance UH100 Black Hawk

[tiking]

Here is something different from me. I decided to play with the idea and came up with this. The logic is not too far from what we see today. hope you guys like it. First of all, I must say that the Italeri,UH-60/MH-60 BLACK HAWK 'night raid' 1/48 scale kit, sucked big time. Maybe it was my bad luck but the fittings has one of the worst fittings I have ever experienced. Not only that, but the instructions was so bad  . Thank goodness, I was not trying to duplicate any particular prototyp model, which would have been a disaster. At the end, things were so misaligned that I just had to improvised, to hide certain areas. It helped, but only to an extend. So forgive me, if certain areas do not look that they have a perfect fitting. But, that was the best I could do. The engines rotate, for take off and flight mode. Anyways, here is kit-bashed, modified, with a little scratch building involved, which resulted in this 'UH100 Black Hawk Stealth design. Hope you like the results, regardless of the difficulties I have had trying to put this build together.

 

Edited October 23, 2020 by tiking

[Madhatter]

this is awesome - like almost everything else you've done! Are those silicon earbud thingies on the main engines?

Black is a hard colour to paint and photograph, so great work on both counts. What shade/s of black did you use?

[tiking]

1 hour ago, Madhatter said:

this is awesome - like almost everything else you've done! Are those silicon earbud thingies on the main engines?

Black is a hard colour to paint and photograph, so great work on both counts. What shade/s of black did you use?

Thanks. Yes they are silicone earbuds. if it looks and fits in, I'll use almost anything.

I used Citadels Black primer from the can, which is also the main color. So in short, I just used the primer both as the primer and base color. Then I dried brushed the body with their Grey color, called,' Stormvermin fur' color. Again, I dry-brushed it on with several layers, very very thinly. Then I dry-brushed it again, with Citadels Leadbelcher silver color. This is the closest I could get it to not looking completely black and uninteresting. I do not use an airbrush. But I will be learning how to use one pretty soon, God willing.

[Madhatter]

you don't use an airbrush?!? Fooled me! If this is your work now without one I can't wait to see what you do with one

[bisc63]

Love it! Very creative design, and beautiful execution; very believable fiction! The finish just goes to show how a brush in the hand of someone who knows how to use it is better than an airbrush wielded by someone who doesn't.

[tiking]

23 hours ago, Madhatter said:

you don't use an airbrush?!? Fooled me! If this is your work now without one I can't wait to see what you do with one

Hihi! Thank you for your uplifting words. Glad you liked the results. 

16 hours ago, bisc63 said:

Love it! Very creative design, and beautiful execution; very believable fiction! The finish just goes to show how a brush in the hand of someone who knows how to use it is better than an airbrush wielded by someone who doesn't.

Thank you kindly. Now, unto my next scifi project.

[slusher]

Fantastic build! Love it, you always do great work!

[tiking]

16 hours ago, slusher said:

Fantastic build! Love it, you always do great work!

Thank you Slusher. 

[mustang1989]

WOW!!! That finish looks amazing and the weathering looks spot on!!!!

[tiking]

On 8/2/2020 at 5:27 PM, mustang1989 said:

WOW!!! That finish looks amazing and the weathering looks spot on!!!!

thank you kindly. Glad you liked the results.