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SKILL LEVEL:
Intermediate
SPECIFICATION:
Minicraft Lockheed Hercules C-130J/C5 and C4
Kit No: 14700 and 14524B
Materials: IM,
Status: Reissue with updated parts
Availability: On Line Model Shops
Price Guide: £20 - £30
BEFORE STARTING:
Tamiya OF2 side cutters
#3 and #4 scalpels with #11,#23, and#25 blades
Deluxe Perfect Plastic fi ller
AK Interactive fi ller
Mr. Hobby Cement S
Loctite cyanoacrylate glue
Albion Alloys and Flory Models sanding boards
Abralon 600, 1000 and 3000 grit foam abrasive
Micromesh polishing cloths
Tamiya masking tape
Pacer Formula 560 canopy glue
Artists’ grey green and brown tone pastel chalks
PAINTS USED:
MRP Mr Paint:
MRP 230 Pale Roundel Blue
Mr. Hobby Aqueous:
H77 Tire Black
H70 RLM02
H302 Green FS34092
H320 Dark Green
H420 RLM80
GX 110 Gloss
GX 113 Flat
Alclad:
Aluminium
Steel
Jet Exhaust
Pale Burnt Metal
Halfords:
Grey Primer
Windsor and Newton oils:
Burnt Umber
Lamp Black
Titanium White
Do you want to build a here are many factors which markings. We were near the top of one of
model of the Hercules inspire modellers to build specific our local fells overlooking Derwent water
replicas, I confess that for me, and Bassenthwaite when 883 banked
but don’t really have the
it's mostly the look of a particular around Skiddaw and made a low pass along
space for one in 1:72 T aircraft, or the detail complexity of the lake; the Hercules was below us and I
or larger? How about a military vehicle. In the case of the C-130 swear the pilot waved...
Minicraft’s 1:144 kit with Hercules modelled here, it was the impact I fi nd it hard to get my head around the idea
of a few seconds in Cumbria, where I live, of the RAF celebrating 50 years of service of
its perfect mix of size when I encountered RAF Hercules C.5 the C-130, - this is surely a modern aircraft
and detail? ZH883 in its 50 years of service celebratory which routinely fl ies over my house ? - and
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