Since 2011 there was plenty of stuff built and painted for my Dragon Rising Project (which I now call "Battle For Skira" on my blog). The latest addition were Chinese vehicles a couple of months back.
I have now started a new build for the project. It's a conversion of the 1/72 scale UH-1N Twin Huey helicopter into a UH-1Y Venom.
It is going to be called "Star Force 21", the call sign of the Venom that was part of the missions in the pc game ARMA 2. It was the chopper that picked up Team Razor (which I also have minis for).
Base kit for the conversion was the Italeri
UH-1N. To complete the build I will kit-bash it with combining this Italeri kit with an
AH-1W Whiskey Cobra, a
Bell 412 (also Italeri) and an
AH-1Z from KiTech (which, BTW is
NOT a correct
Viper helicopter - its rather an updated trial AH-1W testbed). Resin parts will then be added from the "AH-1W Iraq Update" kit by Olimp Models (bad quality cast though) and Armycast M&M payload (ie Miniguns etc). As you can see its quite costly
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Crew will be added using SHQ Vietnam chopper pilots and door gunners (as they are the correct size to fit exactly into the Huey fuselage). I am going to add weapons, chaff/flare dispensers, rader warning sensors, payload (Hydra, M134 and .50cal) as well as FLIR turret.
work in progress:
Top needs still parts for the rotor and turbine housing isn't completed yet.
Lot of work with putty to follow....