AH64 A Helicopter by kpnuts - Academy - 1/48 - PLASTIC

[Canute]

I did one real ground egress from a Phantom once. Crew chief called Fire as we were doing a cartridge start. Clouds of black smoke. No time to be asking "are you sure". We just did our heavily practiced ground egress out of the cockpit and climbed up on the left intake, down the side of the engine, across the wing and off the wing tank. We're standing behind the crew chief going where's the fire, boss? He turns around and and says "you had a flame flicking out of the engine". I said yeah, how many cart starts have you done so far today. He said a number. I said the crud build up on the cart breeches and it lit off. Probably should have done an air cart start to clean the breech out. 😁

[kpnuts]

Hi all nearing the explosion event.

 

[Landlubber Mike]

That's some really awesome work on what sounds like a tough kit.  I love the Apache and remember wanting to build one as a kid.  It has a real badass look to it.  I almost bid on the Hasegawa kit with this Israeli conversion kit last week but it went for $$$.