Hello everybody!
For many years I was watching a Piaggio Avanti air ambulance approach my local airport in Poznań, Poland and I wanted to build a model of it. After Caracal issued just the right scheme on one of their decal sets I decided to bite the bullet - and it was in 2018… I have bought the Amodel kit, and looking how bad the kit windows are I decided to replace all of them on each side of the aircraft with asingle piece of curved vivak. I also decided to show air ambulance interior and “open” the cabin door, which complicated the build and in connection with a move to another apartment made the build drag really long… But luckily I was able to finish the project!
Let me show you the window conversion first:
You can see the area replaced by clear Vivak sheet in that photo, with windows masked on both sides with Tamiya tape. As a testament to the quality of that tape - it stayed in place for about 5 years and I didn’t have problems removing it when the time came!
Here’s how the cabin looks like - and almost nothing of it can be seen now… I probably wouldn’t bother with it, knowing what I know now…
And in the end the finished model looks like this:
I hope you like it - thanks for looking and have a nice day!
Paweł
