1/72 RAAF C-130H Hercules

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My Current WIP is the 1/72 Italeri C-130 that I am marking up in the old tri colour cam of 36 SQN RAAF.

I actually started this model around ten years ago and shelved it because I was young and it got boring, Ive cracked it open again and added detail to the cock pit, added troop seats in the cargo area, added a the bulkhead for the mid wing fuel tank and blocked out around the landing gear, drilled out the exhaust for the APU.

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This is the base for the cockpit, the kit is very basic even for 1/72. I used the kit seats, control yokes and dash. I added bulkheads around the crew seats using plasticard.

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Here you can see the bulkheaad I added, it’s not shown here but I also blocked out around the gear all the way to the roof as in the real aircraft. I also added the aircon pipes to the bulkhead.

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I framed up the troop seat using sprue.

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The net seat stumped me for ages, I tried to glue ribbon together in a net, this was suitable for a larger scale but was wrong for 1/72. I ended up using laminating sheets peeled in half and coloured in with texta before I cut the squares out to make a net.

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This is the cam pattern. I masked it up using blu tack and tape. I sprayed each half seperatley so the pattern doesnt line up exactly so I will patch this on final construction.

Thats as far as I’ve got. what does every one think so far?

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I think it looks great. But isn’t black part of the pattern, or is that the four color one?

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Black is part of the pattern for vehicles but aircraft used the dark green instead.

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Black is used on Australian Army aircraft (mainly helos) camo. An exception for RAAF aircraft is/was the DHC-4 Caribou, which included black in the pattern.

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So I have now finished aside from the weathering which will get done when I get to it, a few more pics. Please let me know what you guys think

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