One highly visible area of the kit is the cargo ramp sidewalls, which would definitely benefit from some more detail. You could really go to town here as they are complex web of pipes and cables and panels, but looking at my reference photos, only some semblance or similarity would be sufficient, so I will tone it down a bit.
As you can see it’s all a bit too simple OOB and you have to cut away some kit detail for the photoetch.
Firstly adding some styrene parts to make the framing more accurate, along with a hydraulic panel on the starboards side, then adding the Eduard photoetch.
At this point I primed and base coated the interior walls and added the decals.
Once again from reference photo’s the cargo sidewalls and framing appeared heavily weathered, not surprising I guess when wide open on landing in desert sand or mucky fields. So how to obtain that effect? My solution was to undercoat with the Yellow Chromate primer, then lightly overshoot with our Interior Light Grey and then gently sand back where prominent to allow the fading to come through.
See what you think…
Now we have our base to add detail too.
This is where the kit bashing comes into play, lots of little detail, fine wire for hydraulic lines and cabling too busy it all up.
Richard Allen says
Fantastic RAF Chinook, super detailed and great guide for my current Italeri 1/48 Chinook HC2 project. Can only wish I had that talent for building!
Al Parker says
The final build is fantastic; I’m so pleased to come across this, as I got this kit today. I’m so excited to start, but even more so with your guidance; great work.