Isn’t there one at gate one by FT Carson?
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I believe you’re right - the gate off of 115 where all the armored vehicles are. I just know there’s one at Butts because they let me take a look at their latest Apaches recently.
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We really need to link up some day we have probably passed each other at some point and didn’t even know it.
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So, here she is. Done and dusted, literally.
Just got the helmets to add to the figures and do a small base “somewhere in Vietnam”
Tie downs have home made loops and carabiners, not good when you have eyesight like mine, but I can see the finish line
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It came out great. Nice job on an old kit.
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absolutely fantastic and well worth the wait, it’s truly a work of art.
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And here she is, finally done with a base and a couple of figures.
An old kit, and you can tell, but plenty of upgrades available, albeit for the ICM kits.
I’m not too certain on the D troops, 4th cavalry for Squatter Swatter as there’s a couple of bits of conflicting info. And whether WO Bryant flew in SS with Capt Mills, but he did make a comment that himself and WO Bryant were rescued from one of their downed AH-1Gs in one of the modellingforums a while back. So a bit of artistic licence
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awesome build, well done indeed
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A little late, I know - but I just found this one on my phone. It’s from the Branson, MO Military Veterans Museum I took last summer.
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Thanks. I’d not seen one with the eyelets screwed into the tailboom before.
Ive got a 2nd kit that I have the AH-1S update kit for. I’d be interested to see if the used the same method
That’s exactly why I take as many photos as I can on my museum visits, which number at least a dozen per year. You can get metal eyelets just the right size (stronger) by looking for HO or O scale locomotive lift rings.
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It’s a great picture, I am far from a cobra expert but I am not sure about that tie-down. Seems like a museum modification.
All of the photos I’ve posted are. I can imagine that prototypically it was the band around the rotor with lines running to whatever was handy and secure.
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I have seen the strap plus other locations.
The d loop below it looks interesting but that location also looks patched and might not support the stresses.