New to me, anyone here have experience with this company and are they any good?
The MH 47G is a handsome looking helo…
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It’s not even listed on their site yet. I guess we’ll have to get some photos of tbe actual printed parts, not just CADs, to see how good it is.
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Hello Handsome, what your name then?
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Here’s a link to the item
30004 Conversion set for Trumpeter 05105 to 1/35 MH47G Chinook | Aladdin Model
With out seeing the actual parts, the image of the nose cad looks a bit too droopy. Kinda throws the whole look off. But, If you can scale it down to 1/48, its the only game in town.
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I did two walkarounds of these, about ten years apart. I can’t comment definitively on the nose as it may be a later version. There are features on it that differ from my photos. However, that is not the engine found on the G model. And it apears to lack the supports for the infrared exhaust suppressor. With good references you could do your own. It’ll need to be reworked, It’s also missing the prominent sniper seat. If there were better images of the built kit I might be able to comment further on it,
A noble effort, but for now I’ll pass.
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Yup, same. Kuddo’s for giving it a go but its just lacking so many things. I don’t mean to sh*t on the guy for doing what nobody else is willing to do, but it would take a lot of work to finish it right.
It’s really unfortunate that Diego Romero at Xtream Modelers Studio couldn’t come through with his 1/48 MH-47G conversion. It looked absolutely fantastic but most, if not everyone who paid for a set was ripped off, including me.
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What we need first is a better 1/48 as a base. The Italeri kit, while not bad, has toylike panel lines that are a PITA to fill in. I’d rather have a smooth fuselage with no lines, and draw them on my self with a pencil.
How did you get ripped off?
Edit:
I took a moment to look at my references while waiting for water to boil (who has time to model on weekends?) and another thing jumped out at me - the absence of this:
I’m not going to spend any more time looking at this conversion as my mind had already been made up. But anyone buying it - you were warned.
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I agree, 1/48 offerings are lacking. I just finished the Hobby Boss -47 D, I’d say it’s a better starting point than the Italeri kit but it’s still missing the forward pylon air vents, the center cargo hook is way undersized and the vents on the upper engine cowls are positioned wrong. Not to mention the barren ramp area and lack of troop seats. The heads are a bit anemic and the aft is missing the centrifugal droop stops. It’s essentially a scaled down version of Trumpters 1/35 kit with all same errors.
As for being ripped off, I had read guys were purchasing the conversion set from Xtreme modelers studio. Some were getting them, some were not. I took a chance and sent him $110 for a set and he never replied again. I knew it was a possibility I’d never see the set or my money again so I wasn’t too butt hurt about it but I still wanted to get the word out about this guy.
It’s a shame because the set looked really nice.
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You experience is unfortunate. Someday the right person will come along to give us a better product and be honest to deal with.
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