Wanted to
have this Vietnam era helicopter as a part of my collection. So when I found
this, didn't hesitate to buy it. To my surprise, the quality of this kit is not
in line with other Hasegawa kits. Seems to me that this is a very old tooling.
In the first glance the kit seems a no-go with lot of sprue flash, raised panel
lines and injection pin marks. Was unsure how the end result would look like.
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There were
two options available a Japanese Ground self defence force and a US Army
version. I chose the Japanese version since I did not have any Japanese models.
After removing the flash and lots of filling and sanding, it turned out to be a
nice model. Of course, the windscreen and the front fuselage fit is not the
good.
Being a basic kit,
there were hardly any interior options like missing benches behind the pilot,
very basic cockpit with bare minimum decal and two badly moulded pilot /co pilot
figures. Thus, I decided to keep all the doors closed as there was nothing to
look inside. Have finished this in the 3 paint JGSDF scheme . After a not so
exciting start, was pleased with the model at the end.
At the end, I mounted this on a small wooden roundel and it proudly sits
alongside my other models.
You can check out more photos of this model my Instagram page ashish_velankar_scalemodels.
Enjoy the photos !
Ashish
Velankar
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