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This kit is
#831 by Italeri. All the outside of the kit including weapons are standard
straight from the kit.
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The mods done to this kit are the instrument panels and
the decals on the sponsons. The instrument panels were designed on the
"A" model, so the digital cockpit came from Hasegawa's 1/48 Longbow,
which has been reviewed by Dave Williams on Hyperscale.
Dave Williams was very helpful and supplied some parts from his Hasegawa
kit. Thanks Dave!! This seems to be a common fault with model
companies in regards to this A/C. The sponson decals came from Italeri's AH-64A
kit (82nd Airborne), while the numbers came from Italeri's newly released Kiowa
kit.

All in all, the kit
wasn't too bad. I wasn't happy with the detail on the chain gun, and the joins
to put the floor in and around the cockpit glass were pretty crap, but with a
lot of bog a sanding, I managed to get something respectable. The rest of the
kit went together fairly well. If I built this kit again, I would get the
cockpits again from Hasegawa and source a different chain gun. I would rate this
kit three and a half stars out of five.
Andrew George
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