1/72 Revell AH-1W

Super-Cobra

by geedubelyer

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Hi all, here is a quick and fun model I built whilst away on my hols.  Anyone who has spent time in Britain will know about the vagaries of the British climate, so I took the precaution of arming myself with a project to build between showers!

This little kit was supplied with a pot of glue, three acrylic paint pots and a two headed paint brush.  I built the kit straight out of the box using no filler and the kit decals applied directly onto the brush painted surface.

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The finished item is far from perfect. The instructions are a little vague in some places, so the exhausts may be wrong and the antennas might not be correct either. Having said that, I thoroughly enjoyed the couple of hours this took to build. As the Yorkshire rain poured down against the windows I was magically transported back to my youth and a time when I built all of my models this way.

(At some point I'd like to attempt the larger 1/35th scale version of this 'copter so we'll see how that one turns out!)

geedubelyer

Photos and text © by Guy (geedubelyer) Wilson