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CH-54A "Tarhe" Pilots Late In Seats
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Review Author(s)
Chris Vandegrift
Scale
1/35
MSRP
$44.24
Product / Stock #
RSF35-0011
Base Kit
ICM CH-54A
Company: Reskit - Website: Visit Site
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Details
Aircraft

Working on these makes me want to buy the kit just so I can add the crew!!

ResKit is doing some crisp lines, creases, and detail work. The resin comes off the supports cleanly without risk of breaking or chipping. The attachment points are very fine and placed in inconspicuous places, behind the legs and the back of the helmet for example. Another thing I’ve noticed in my ResKit reviews of late is that the resin is very easy to sand. It takes almost no effort with some 400 grit wet-sand paper to clean these up without a trace of the connections.

The instructions are easy to interpret and include a color chart in a neutral choice of green, grey, and khaki. These skycranes have seen all kinds of service so I expect many modelers will identify their uniform of choice. Both collective and stick are well detailed and the attachment point at the hand is going to be very solid. There’s a lot of glass in the skycrane cockpit and these figures will definitely shine!

I painted them following the instructions and also wanted to note, these figures also include the much improved seats over the kits parts!

My sincere thanks to ResKit and IPMS for the opportunity to build it. I will definitely be looking for more ResKit figures to add to my builds.

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Reviewer Bio

Chris Vandegrift

When Chris isn't modeling he's restoring old cars or doing home remodeling in his spare time. Both have helped improve his modeling. "Having learned to paint cars, quite a few of those techniques apply to priming and painting my models," he says. Chris used to build aircraft exclusively, but has expanded into ships, science fiction, armor and cars. A member of multiple IPMS clubs in Ohio including Akron's Ed Kinney Chapter, Wright Field and Cincinnati Scale Modelers, Chris started building models when he was about 7. Chris lives in Cincinnati Ohio; a Mechanical Engineer by trade, he's the head of Operations and Engineering for a company that makes pumps. He's been married to his wife Jane for 30 years; they have four kids ranging from 20 to 34.