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Gallery Article by Juraj Macko |
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My name is Juraj Macko, I am
from Slovakia and here are a few photos of my latest project – Kamov Ka-25C.
I've liked this chopper since I was a young boy, and that was a very long time
ago J.
This is a short run kit from
the Ukrainian Amodel brand, reboxed by Maquette. After mining the parts
from very crude sprues, you can see that the kit is very well detailed,
with nice engraved panel lines, but with very poor transparent parts. Decals I
partially replaced with stars from Kanga set from Russia, partially I used
decals from kit, but repainted them with enamels.
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images below to see larger images
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All panel lines were rescribed.
After the first coat of Humbrol primer I
(after a long, long, long, long study of all accessible photos) decided
irrevocably that the right color for
„serogoluboj“(bluegrey) of „voennogo morskogo flota“ is Revell 374. Some
of the modelers often are using HU 128 Ocean Grey, but on the hellos this color
is too dark.
If you want to build this kit,
be patient – in the reboxing by
Maquette (and I think in the original Amodel too), which I built, is mishmash of
the upper rotor section – blades of the rotor must be turned in the opposite
direction to the lower. In the box
upper and lower rotor blades are turned into one direction. Reason is glue the
blades of upper rotor to rotorhead, let to dry over night, then cut all blades
and glue them into right opposite direction.