Hi All fellow modellers! Here I like you to
present my 1/87 Faller “military kit “Heli-hangar”. After my 1/87 Preiser
military Shelter and NATO observation tower kit builds I found this huge kit in
Denmark for sale. It is long OOP and very hard to find these days. It took me a
year to start the kit but once I found a picture on a greek spotters website
showing a hangar it inspired me to finish it. I was impressed by the fantastic
camo used on the various HAS and buildings on that particular airbase.
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The kit’s clear instructions
and perfect overall fit make it an easy build. It measures 50x50 cm and can be
used for 1/72 aircraft. Preiser military also included a huge hangar in its
catalogue, with a small control tower, but both consist of carton parts and
dates old-fashion to me. The Faller kit is much better as it is solid, fine
quality plastic and easy to store.
In the meanwhile I finished some
Preiser airport runway lights (lots of em) and signs used together with the
roll-bahn foam parts. I still need to finish the taxi-runway tarmac markings
with black and need more smaller hand-made bush. Some pictures show pine trees
and French jaguars taking off, little unthinkable for a greek airbase but it is
fun to experiment.
The palm trees come from Preiser.
These are quite nice, you have to sacrifice some to end up with more leaves.
In my opinion the hangar
paint-scheme looks a bit psychedelic but it proves to be used in real (Btw:
overall green is boring). I am quite happy with the result. I hope you like it.
Happy modelling.
Duncan
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