#C 130 cockpit air conditioning how to#
#C 130 cockpit air conditioning full#

Can't wait to get to attaching that cockpit PE!įinally some progress! Quite a lot, actually. I'll get to painting all the black pieces soon-ish which covers most of the interior. Styrene is a bit too thin for what I'm looking for. Seems silly to just attach the seats to the cargo floor without anything in between. I might put it on a platform of some kind & just glue that to the floor but I'd still have to find a flat piece for that. They're extras from the three Italeri (A)C-130s I've built before.

#C 130 cockpit air conditioning how to#

I'm still thinking about how to attach the seats to the whole thing. Got some greebling into the side panels as well as some support for the side-displays. The middle angled console is once again a spare part. I added the display frames to give them some depth. Worked very well, it's my first time using this stuff in this way. I made the walls from styrene & cut it to shape. all of these pieces were identical, the angled one was cut in half (no idea what they're from, they were just sitting in my spare parts bin) Stuck a piece of plastic there to give it some rigidity. I started with the rough shape of the angled top screens. Most of the detail was the unused cockpit instrument panels from a Tamiya F-14D. I used quite a lot of spare parts to get it done & some styrene sheets. The cargo hold will be sealed up but I can't resist building something like this up. The older gunships had a box you'd enter to use these systems but they've replaced it with an open version in the newer ones. That is, the weapons control station inside the cargo hold: I mean we do all know AFSOC guys don't need sleep.Īnyways! It's scratchbuild-Saturday so I got some cool stuff ready for painting. I did notice it in my research but it just seemed like something not worth it. I'd have to extend the table & it just isn't my plan right now. I think the bunk is gonna have to stay as I'm a bit too deep to remove it now. Not sure if you planned on removing it but ACs as well as MCs have no bunk in the flight deck. Still gotta do the refueling line on the cockpit roof but that shouldn't be too difficult. I pinky promised myself I'd get to painting tomorrow, so we'll see lol. Feels silly painting the cargo hold at all when you can't see anything but it'll look good for the blog lol.Īttached most of the fuselage detail as well as the ammo rack for the 105. planning on adding some green on the edges & then whiping it off to give it that green hue. The shape is not really there & I'd need another pair of thin PE for the frames but it's good enough for me. It looks rough right now but once I get them attached to the roof of the cockpit they'll look good enough. Here are the HUD displays I put together from some spare PE. Eduard asks for a 0,5 mm tube but I didn't bother measuring it. Maybe a basic one wouldn't look too bad.Īttached the steering wheel to a cut pin. gonna be rough to put that together, it would look pretty plain. Kinda disappointed they didn't include it! But if I made that I'd be missing the fire control displays etc. Very nice detail, but I might have to build that ammo feed system for the Bushmaster. I like my cement surfaces clean & paint free!Īlso got the 30 mike & the 105 assembled. Both got some brilliant nose art so it's gonna be a tough call!ĭid some masking for the non-painted areas inside the fuselage. The other one is a 'purebred' AC-130J while the other is a converted MC-130J.

#C 130 cockpit air conditioning full#

The resin Hellfires & GBU-39s are gonna work great for a full Ghostrider loadout.Īlready got the photo references for the two tail numbers but I'm still not sure which one I'm going to do. The interior is a lot cleaner at least for now. Thankfully the scale allows for a little messi- a lot of messiness in the CA glue application. The seats do look very nice, even unpainted.Īlso attached the fins for the Hellfires (hope I don't have to do that again anytime soon 😫). Also missing a display on the instrument panel but I'll live with it 😄 I'm not sure if the normal Hercs have those, but in assuming not since Eduard didn't include them. I might scratch-build the HUDs that are seen on the AFSOC Herculeses. Got the sweet Eduard PE for the C-130J cockpit, and while it's not exactly the AC/MC-130J cockpit, it's good enough. Right now I've started on the PE, getting all the unpainted stuff glued on before I give the cockpit its gray base color. Might get some gap weeks in the build process but I'll try to keep this updated whenever I do make progress. Thought I'd post a build blog here as I'm very excited for this kit!