AC-130A Hercules Gunship 9/22 Azrael is finished

[Leon]

Evening fellas!!!!!The urge to start this is futile so I will be starting this tomorrow.As per the instructions the old girl just got her bath and is drying in preparation for the start.I'll post sprue pics in the morning and here are a few pics of the box art.

Stay tuned in as this is my first wingie in over 40 years.

[dupes]

Getting on it already? Excellent!

[TRM]

Time to make some popcorn!!!! Bring it on Leon!!

[Deleted]

I'm always up for a hercy bird   You have my attention 

[tobias5555]

That will be a great one.

[Leon]

Dupes glad your along. I'm a little rusty so I hope I can do this some justice.

Todd,glad to have you along for the flight.

Steve,glad to have you along.

Tobi thanks,welcome aboard.

[Leon]

Morning guys,here are the sprue pics.Not a lot of parts but I'm going to take my time on this build.Build to commence shortly so stay tuned in.











Thanks for looking in.

[elco]

Nice, this is a real killer version of the Hercules. Been on a ride with the regular version a couple of times and its impressive ( and noisey )

You gonna camo it? Yes.

[Leon]

Elco glad to have look in.Camo is a definite on this bad boy.

[Leon]

Hi guys,made a start on the AC-130.Landing bay and office are glued up.Need to prime and do some painting before I can continue.Need to prime and paint the dashboard separate then glue in.Sorry about the pics,really hard to photograph the black plastic.Hope you like the progress so far.





Thanks for looking.

[dupes]

It doesn't look like there's a lot of parts, buy when you factor in the cleanup on all of them there may as well be three times as many!

[Leon]

Dupes,there is hardly any cleanup except where I cut the parts off the sprue.All the parts look pretty flash free.

[dupes]

No funky mold lines? Maybe you got an earlier cast than I did. Sanding GALORE.

[Tojo72]

That should be very impressive.pretty big build I would think, what will be the wingspan ?

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[Leon]

Anthony the wing span on this will be 22".Pretty darn big for 1/72 scale.

[Leon]

Evening guys.....just a small update,Got the office and landing gear bay primed and ready for paint.Was hoping to have this done today but SWMBO had other plans.Hope to have this painted tomorrow and move on to step 2 of the build.









Thanks for looking,as always ACW.

[dupes]

Leon - are you priming the back half interior at the same time?

[Leon]

Dupes,i plan on doing that after I get the rear wheel bays glued in.

[Tobi]

This is one of my favorite planes!

Nice start Leon.

What is the length and wingspan of that bird?

[Leon]

Tobi thank you .The length is 16 1/2" and wing span is 22"

[Tobi]

Wow, that IS big!

[dupes]

You should see the 1/48 kit!

[Tobi]

Whaddaya mean? This ain't 1/48!?

[Leon]

Morning guys,just finished priming the inside of the fuse and rear landing gear bays.Need the let these cure so I can do some preliminary painting before assembly.So far things are going good.







Thanks for looking,as always ACW.

[Leon]

Tobi this is 1/72 and it's big.

[406 Silverado]

You wasted no time on this one Leon. Keep her rollong brother.

[Leon]

Rob,thank you.Been a long time since I did a wingie and I'm having fun with this one.

[Tobi]

Aug 17, 2014 10:37:28 GMT -5 Leon said:

Tobi this is 1/72 and it's big.

By Jove!!!

[sturmbird]

to this very day, I'll never forget my first ride in a C130! Just knew it was going down at any moment. AC130's were the new kid on the block when I went home. Maybe in action 90 days. We had an AC47 setting on the runway in DaNang with our name written on it, and used it a couple times a month. Guys a little south were using AC119's, but they never came up our way. It was just that one AC47 working the night shift for us.

Ironically, I ended up working on the TF56 engine project when I came home. Can still remember watching those guys hand fitting the props.
gary

[imatanker]

Do I need to say I'm in?