Bell AH-1 Cobra

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Dutch Thanks guys, but this is merely a photo of the actual aircraft I want to model. It is simply, my goal. I will have to do a ton of detailing for the as yet unstarted kit to look anywhere close to the photo.

Ekki Watching.

Alberto Michieletto Completed

Cuajete Following.

Clifford Keesler I will do that sir. I am so glad you are better now, I was really worried about you there for awhile. I was worried I would get the dreaded phone call from Paul.

Kevin Farrell It was close a year ago. I was saying goodbye to wife & family. Pulled out by the Grace of God!

Clifford Keesler Amen brother! Glad you are still with US.

Clifford Keesler I am getting ready to start the MH-53E, waiting on the last of the photo etch and mask set. Cobra CO. went out of business, so can't get the rest of the stuff for my CH-47. Lone Star models owns it now, and he says all the Cobra CO. stuff will return, so I wait. LOL.

Kevin Farrell Yikes! Cobra Co went tits-up long ago! Boy, the H-53 series still give me a chubby. Sure wish I could have completed one of those. Didn't we go back and forth about 12 times on the Dragon? Har!! Be good.

Clifford Keesler Yea, I had the E at one point I think, then traded it for the Dragon, then sent it back and then bought it again. Glad I got it though, they are pretty pricey on E-bay as are the E's . The Bull Frog is still pretty cheap. I am going to snag one this payday. The rest of the stuff for the Dragon arrived today, so as soon as I finish the Harrier I will be breaking out the Dragon.

Kevin Farrell Is Floyd Werner (Werner's Wings) still around? He made some pretty cool stuff for helo's. Anyway, I'm sure you'll be posting here when you get it finished. Please give me a poke when you do. I don't come over here unless I get a notice. Don't CA your fingers together! K

Clifford Keesler I don't know if Werner's Wings is still around or not, I will have to check. I will keep you in the loop on the Dragon build.

Kit Kabinet I believe all Mastercraft kits are crude copies. I suppose it's OK for kids to start with due to the low price, but hardly interesting for a more serous modeler.

adiforlon Awful kit, avoid even at 1€, decals disintegrated

ice May I take a seat in the front row? I think there's much to learn here and I don't wan't to miss a thing.

SHAURYA_PRADEEP Hi Gerald Sir, i am new in hobby building
Want some guidance from you , if possible ? please !

Gerald Willing Where do you have problems?

Gary When or if will somebody come out with a decent 1/48th G model Cobra. Oh wait!! I'm not dead yet. Gary S.

Gerald Willing HeHe

Holger Kranich Hey Gary, i could imagine that Kitty Hawk kicks out a G Cobra after releasing the Huey yet. Lets pray for it!

scalemates well done Dietmar!

Luc B Great looking Cobra!

Ekki Excellent work.

Ekki Excellent work.

KlausH Thank you Ekki!

Michael Hickey She looks awesome.

Ulf Petersen Cool Cobra, Greg!

ice Nice one!

Anthony Flanagan I built the same kit and version. Seatbelts very nice addition! Well done!

Jeffrey Riedesel Nice

Cortex No way this is the old Monogram Cobra!

Cortex loved it!

Ronan Donohoe Thank you!

Ekki Watching.

Ekki Good work.

Ray Seppala Nice job Mark

Kerry COX Gunslingers pad. !

Ekki Nice work. Well done.

Gary Love Cobras. Nice to see a blue one in the works. Gary

Erik Francisco Zimmermann Thx Gary

Aron Christian Aronsen It looks so good!

Es-haq Khosravi Awesome!!!

Ulf Petersen Great Cobra, Sebastijan!

Bart Goesaert very nice work....

Sebastijan Videc Thank you guys! Glad you like her!

Christian Ristits This is very well done, the best Cobra I have seen so far, congrats!

Vjekoslav Ranec LAJKAM

Sebastijan Videc Thanks again!

LUIS ALFONSO AGUIRRE MORALES Nice Snake RJ!!!
Cheers,

Clifford Keesler Very nice Cobra!

Choppa Nutta Nice Work

Gareth Windsor Ok, confession time. This was a cheap gift set that came with paints. I didn't look at the instructions that said to mix the Sand paint with the White to get the right colour. I thought it looked too dark so mixed up the lighter colour and covered the main parts of the panels. After decaling I gave it another light coat to "Sun bleach" the markings. So by correcting the wrong colour it's actually given the finished model more depth and nice weathering.

Mike Grant Looks awesome

Marko Excellent work on that Sand Shark

Gareth Windsor

Soeren . Great build!

berni Good Job!

Floyd Werner I can't remember anything wrong on the gearbox shapes. The tail rotor has the wrong hub with the counter weights of the AH-1S. Just don't use the counter weights.

Christian Meyerhoff Hi Floyd! I`ve allways been a fan of CMK and all there Sub-Companies. I saw many of your models posted on Hyperscale which were all quarter scale. So if You say that this kit is great ( even in the only true scale
) I will place an order right now. Many THX for this Information!

Floyd Werner We at Werner's Wings are working on a corrected tail rotor for this and the AZ kit

Mike Grant @Floyd Have you released the corrected tail rotor yet?

Floyd Werner They are suppose to be in the mail to me. I will start selling them, IF they are, at Mosquitocon in NJ on 4 April then I'll get them up on the site.

Mike Grant Thanks for the update, I'll be purchasing one when they're released.

Christian Meyerhoff Hi Floyd!
That`s nice! Will this item to be on sale in Germany?

Floyd Werner Worldwide from Werner's Wings.

Gareth Windsor My son asked me to make him an attack helicopter for his Birthday. This came as a gift set with the paints, cement and a rather bad, double ended paintbrush. The model itself is typical old-school Revell, great shape, some nice detail, but raised panel lines, plenty of flash and some bits not fitting quite right. With that said, I thought this was only going on my son's ceiling and non of that mattered so I was just going to have fun with it and I have so far.
The cockpit builds up nicely with some good detail and decals for the instrument panels. The main body goes together ok with a little filling. At this point I should have painted the Cobra before fitting some of the pointy bits, like the pitot mast which I knocked off three times. The Sand colour paint is too dark and needs mixing with white (not supplied), but having only realized this once I had painted the Cobra , it actually works well with the weathered look. I put the decals on the put the lighter shade over the whole aircraft to fade the strong black deals back to better match a reference picture I found.

Christian Ristits Very nice, looks great!

Marko Thanks Christian.

Es-haq Khosravi Great job!

Bart Goesaert very nice job. The canopy, is this home-made?

Hanno Kleinecke Awesome work on that cockpit and canopy ! Looking great ! Is the wiring at the rear cockpit made from scratch as well?

Pierre-Christian Baudru Thanks mate ! Yes the canopy is a home made one, molded using the original parts. Cheers.

Pierre-Christian Baudru Thanks mate ! The wiring yes was made of thin wire glued using CA glue. Cheers.

Hanno Kleinecke Wow ! Brillant work in my favourite scale ! I`ll be watching !

Florian H. Very nice and impressive work! But I miss the cyclic stick, or have you just put it in?

Pierre-Christian Baudru You mean the one on the right side ? Like this ? [img1]

Florian H. Hey Pierre, no i ment that one on the pilots side. In picture 16 you can see it, but first on the second look

Bill Spargo Fantastic work, the scribing lines and rivets are excellent, well done.

Es-haq Khosravi Beautiful job!

Es-haq Khosravi Well done!

Ekki Thanks.

Steve Wilson ...
Gotta lie down now!!! feeling a bit dizzy from standing on my head... ((( )))
Besides that, you're doing a nice job Miroslav...

Augie Sweet looker

Gary A bird so close to my heart. Gary

Choppa Nutta Shame you can't get this in 1:35th scale !!
It is super cobras or nothing
I have the Super in 1:35th

Clifford Keesler If you get that one Choppa you might want to check out Cobra Cos 1/32 Vietnam resin cockpit mod for it. I used it in mine and it looks fantastic.

Choppa Nutta Ooh sounds exciting ! I can feel a tune coming on
Got any pictures ?

Clifford Keesler I can retake some and put them up for you. Will try and do that tomorrow. I deleted the album along time ago, think it was only the second project I put on scalemates.

Choppa Nutta Nice one bud, I look forward to it
Should never delete albums though, we might wanna have a look

Clifford Keesler I know, was stupid.

Choppa Nutta Not really, what I've done to my Spitfire was stupid, take a look at the last couple of photos on my TNKR album & you'll see what I mean