1966 CH-47A Chinook Helicopters

I'm waiting for a Chinook CH-47A model 1/35th scale which should be coming in the mail sometime before October 31. This Helicopter has a purpose. That purpose is to carry a 1/35th scale Joint Light Tactical Vehicle JLTV-GP (M1278) into the Military Careers Office and display a new camouflage that I came up with for the JLTV-GP.

I'm using a Vietnam age Chinook diorama to carry a JLTV-GP Slung loaded under the Chinook. I am also buying Vietnam pilots. to bring in the new age. I kept trying to find bigger models bigger than 1/35 scale JLTV but there wasn't any. There were a few videos of remote controlled vehicles online but couldn't ever find the JLTV-GP RC for sale.

One day my social worker came over and she gave me an F-15 plastic model. I she gave me some of the slowest curing cement you could imagine but it eventually set one wing at a time. I had already drawn pictures of JLTV-GP camouflage and I wanted to present it to the Career Center and then I had an idea... instead of showing the Military pictures I could paint a scale model. This seemed like a good idea to me and when my social worker came over she looked on her phone for the JLTV and we THOUGHT she found one. Sometime later my Caregiver took me to the Sidekick Toy and Scale place and they didn't have the model there but had it at another store of theirs in another state. I thought maybe it would be work looking around anyway and came across this Helicopter called an 1/72th scale CH- 46 Sea Knight. I realized that I could suspend the JLTV from the bottom of the Sea Knight and I bought the kit for $25 U.S. Dollars.

I took the model out of the box when I got home and was sorely disappointed with the teeny tiny itty bitty helicopter! It was WAY too small, but I decide to build the kit anyways. I showed off the tiny little landing gear and wheels that i had to assemble and walked out to the living room to show it to everyone everyonce in a while. Then when my Sea Knight was nearly complete I was cementing the rotors to the helicopter and managed to drop it. The tiny little thing fell to pieces!!! After discussion with my Caregiver we decided that I could buy a bigger model that wouldn't break so easily. So, here I am waiting for helicopters and pilots and JLTV in the mail. I got paints and stuff in the mail and expect more things in the near future.

Some questions have arised. Is there a primer that can be brushed on with a hair brush? Should I just not do primer because I can't be having overspray? Has anyone here used 1/35 scale pilots before?
It's time for my meds talk to you later

Somehow I have two threads that are the same. How do I delete the one with 7 views and keep the one with 18 views?

If it hasn't been too long since you posted it, there should be a Delete link below your messages, but that will only delete your own, not my reply here. Best option is to click the Report link instead and explain to the mods that you would like this thread deleted because you accidentally posted the same thing twice.

Jakko said:

If it hasn't been too long since you posted it, there should be a Delete link below your messages, but that will only delete your own, not my reply here. Best option is to click the Report link instead and explain to the mods that you would like this thread deleted because you accidentally posted the same thing twice.

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Okay... done!

YAY!! my Social Worker just brought me a magnifying glass thing that has a ring light on it. She says she doesn't ever use it (She is the person who gave me the F-15A

I tried to fit both halves together and it was Very difficult! So I started with the tabs on the back rear and used Gorilla tape and worked really really hard with the fitment of the pieces using Gorilla tape and worked my way forward to the where the front Rotor is going to be. My caregivers didn't want me using the stove to gently heat and straighten the Fuselage. So, I decided to see how hot the faucet in the bath tub would get and it got hot enough to where it hurt my hands so ran the hot water over the whole fuselage. I hope I have not made things worse... So help me God!! (Literally)



Also, I was going to buy a pallet thingy but Scalehobbyist sent my order of paint to me in these thin plastic cases that hold 6 jars together. You can see that I'm using the clear plastic for a yellow pallet. It's cool except that you can't ever get ALL the paint out. I THOUGHT I made a mistake and buying Lemon Yellow but it looks like the florescent lamp on the magnifying glass makes it look like a glow in the dark tennis ball. LOL the light in the kitchen makes it look more plain.

you can see where i ran out of H304 olive green... (on the top behind the front rotor)

STOP!!!! WET PAINT!!
I saw a video where the roof was deleted so as to make maintenance easier and I thought it was so cool that I decided to make mine have roof strut things. The ring light around my magnifying glass makes the green look like a glow in the dark tennis ball on one side and the wet paint looks all washed out. Maybe I will try for better pictures later... (I don't know what number paint coat this is but I like it so I'm going to stop)

THe ceiling struts were yellow so I made mine yellow.

EDIT:: When I get my Tamiya masking tape I will mask off the yellow and paint the cabin Dark Grey.

How do you go about drilling holes in the rafters like in this picture?

trying to get a good screenshot...

Are those separate parts on the kit that you still need to glue into the fuselage? If so, then you could add them by carefully drilling them with modelling drills. But it's a ton of work that you have to do carefully to get them all lined up properly, else chances are that it'll look badly done. It's better to omit details than to do them poorly, IMHO, because poorly done ones attract attention much more than missing ones do.

If they're moulded into the hull, then the best advice is to forget about it. It will be very difficult , if not impossible, to get a drill in there.

If they're moulded into the hull, then the best advice is to forget about it. It will be very difficult , if not impossible, to get a drill in there.

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The rafters ( For lack of the real term) are molded in the roof. I didn't think about how difficult a ceiling delete might be, I just started painting... LOL!

EDIT:: I don't know what to do now... like 200 coats of Lemon Yellow later... is it all wasted time and paint?

Anybody know if these seats are PE? What are they? Where can I get some?
EDIT::These shots are from this video: cool Model Chinook

I'm going to cry myself to sleep tonight! I lost a part. Maybe I shouldn't have been putting the sponsons on? I lost part number G5 on step 21 in the instructions. Is my model now ruined? Check thumbnail...

This kit is WAY worth the money. The parts fit together extremely well and It has been a joy to put together. The parts sort of 'click together' but don't remove it after it has clicked together because you'll break off the pins that align the parts.

CH-47A 'Chinook' from Amazon

That part must be somewhere. Carefully search the area you do your modelling in, as well as the kit box or wherever you keep the parts.

Jakko said:

That part must be somewhere. Carefully search the area you do your modelling in, as well as the kit box or wherever you keep the parts.

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OH! I forgot this post was here. In my other post I said that God told me that I would find part G5 Today. I thought I started building without G5 and I was painting and working on cementing without the part. I don't know how to describe what happened. I was cementing the side that I THOUGHT had G5 missing and LOW and BEHOLD G5... Already cemented in place!

Big kit, looks like a fun build. Now, like Jakko was sayin, it's there somewhere, you'll find it!

If you already put it onto the model but forgot you had, yep, that's a good way to spend a while searching for nothing. Been there, done that