And building this Israeli attack helicopter in club time may require just this – political opinions being what they are.
Nevertheless, it is a superb kit from Academy – a Korean firm that never seems to disappoint with the precision and detail of their mouldings. This is one kit that will have a lot of ordnance hanging off it – and it is all there on the sprue trees. it will be a matter of research to see what is actually mounted by the 190 Squadron.
I do see one awkward part – the tail wheel is mounted on scale-sized struts and these may be a little fragile. I shall try to nurse through the build to preserve it but if it looks too dodgy I will add a metal piano wire strut.
The decals look fine, and there are not too many of them.
The net has dozens of clear colour photos of these helicopters in Israeli colours so this should be reasonably simple to paint – and it may well lend itself to a freehand camouflage pattern as well.
Certainly the colour photos show pretty smudged demarcation lines. I did this once on an IDF Skyhawk and it looked good – if scruffy.
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