This is the AMT kit fitted with resin and white metal conversion parts from Flightpath. This also has the Fulton STAR system. It took me about a month to complete. the pic is from the 13th Annual Plastic Surgeons contest this past weekend. I’m hoping to get some more pics of it taken this week. The paint scheme came from an MC-130E that I found online. All the panel lines have been sanded off and re-scribed. I like the way everything came out. But I dont think I’ll be attempting another conversion C-130 anytime soon. the resin nose was a royal pain in the buttocks.
Nice looking C-130, always like to see them built. Why is it that even the simplest conversion has to serve up a challenge? I like the smoothness of the color transitions in your camouflage.
How well does that flightpath kit go together? I am in the process of making one for my dad, he flew them in the s.e.a. war games in 70-71 [:)]
Thanks guys. this is my second C-130. the first was an AC-130A. I also have an AC-130H and Fat albert still to do. And thanks on the camo. Funny thing is, the dark green is krylon camo green from a can. the lighter is Olive Green [tamiya] and the grey is nuetral grey [tamiya]. After all three were dry, I overcoated all of them with dark grey [tamiya] to fade them out and give it a weathered look.
The flightpath kit is good. the casting is very clean, and its very easy to do. the hardest part is getting the seem just right wen you cut the nose off the kit. If you clean up the back part of the resin nose, it glues straight to the back of the front cockpit wall. then you just have to fill the seems, and then redo the panel line. The metal parts go on easy. If you put the forks forward, you have to make a couple trapeziodal plates for the top/bottom and then make the two actuator rods. Overall its real easy. I added the drop tanks from a second C-130 kit to the outer wing pylons. Most MC-130’s I’ve seen either have dual tanks on each wing, or a tank and a refueling pod.