AMP 32nd TH-55 Osage Almost here

[John1]

Kit is supposedely already available on Ebay, should be in some shops within 1-3 weeks.   

 

A nice touch is a Quinta-style 3d instrument panel decal.   I just hope that large clear nose section comes together easily, the similar part of the Dragon OH-6A was horrible to get aligned. 

[firefly7]

Thanks John, very eagerly waiting for this. One of my favorite choppers since I was a kid.  Cheers,  Ruben.

[Tomjw]

Definitely looking forward to this arriving ☺️ 

 

Cheers,

 

Tom

[KiwiZac]

  

Box and sprue shots shared by ResKit on Facebook:

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New scale model Hughes TH-55A Osage by AMP in 1/32 scale is ready to purchase on our web site: https://reskit-models.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=3486

 

Edited July 31, 2022 by KiwiZac

[Buster99]

I received mine today from the Aviation Megastore in the Netherlands.

My quick look:

Beautiful model, very delicate parts with subtle details. The cockpit 'decals' are 3d printed, just great and very nice! Canopy looks very nice and clear. Decals are nice as well, printed in register and good color saturation. The printed resin parts, rotorhead and cylinder heads look very nice as well, beautiful delicate printwork. Clear and well printed instructions included.

Sadly there were some small parts that were short-shot and did not fully get formed on the sprue. You can see it on the sprue with the rotor blades on the bottom part where the 7 small thin parts are in a row. They seem to be relatively easy to make though. Some parts also had minor flash, nothing serious and should be easy to clean.

Some parts do not seem to be used in building this kit so maybe there will be another version as well in the future.

All in all I am very happy with this beautiful kit and can recommend it. 

 

Best regards,

Marc

 

Edited August 27, 2022 by Buster99
correction due to grammatical error

[John1]

Can’t wait to see some WIP’s for this kit.  

[Juggernut]

Ok, now that this is here, let me reiterate:  Unless you want to do a large amount of scratchbuilding, you cannot build a modern day S-300C (269C) or S-300CB (269C-1) from this kit, there are too many differences. You may be able to make a 269B from this kit but that's about as far as my remembering takes me.

Edited August 26, 2022 by Juggernut

[Tomjw]

1 hour ago, Juggernut said:

Ok, now that this is here, let me reiterate:  Unless you want to do a large amount of scratchbuilding, you cannot build a modern day S-300C (269C) or S-300CB (269C-1) from this kit, there are too many differences. You may be able to make a 269B from this kit but that's about as far as my remembering takes me.

Is that a problem given that it's a TH-55?

[KiwiZac]

1 hour ago, Tomjw said:

Is that a problem given that it's a TH-55?

It is if you don't want to build a TH-55.