"Blog update - progress pics Air Cav hueys" Topic

Howdy folks,

Just a couple of teaser pics of my Blue team for my air cav unit.

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Thanks for the views and advice.

Very nice. Out of interest, what will you be using for flight stands? The official BF stands (and even the larger one for the Skyraider) don't do it for me as they are too short to look right.

Awesome work!

Outstanding work!

Mind if I ask how you painted the windows? That's a really nice "glass" effect."

Thank you for the kind words folks.

@Some Chicken:

At the moment I will be using the official BF stands…I don't have any other options right now. On a positive note, I much prefer the newer BF stands to the original ones…I have 3-4 of the old ones to contend with, wish me luck, lol.

@ScottS

No problem at all. I will post the exact colour numbers in the future, however the quick and dirty version is this:
1. Vallejo blue-grey on the windows
2. Take sky-grey and stiple a line to give a horizon/cloud deck effect…if it goes on heavy I then either use a quick dry brush without paint to take the edges of the sky-grey away or I'll use a very dry brush of the blue-grey to soften the edges.
3. For the undersides, I do the same with sky-grey but also take russian uniform and stipple that between the cloud deck and the very bottom of the window. I soften this edge as needed.
4. Optional – on my last 2 helos, I also took strong wash and streaked the window near the top and bottom

Hope this helps. I'll make a better post in the future.

thanks again.

Beautiful work on all of the Vietnam stuff on your blog.

You may enjoy this website that is devoted to Vietnam wargaming.

Lots of valuable information in the old posts.

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Tom

Thank you Tom. Thanks for the link as well.

Cheers.
Stan