Yes but the art is wrong as the original Apaches , not the D were in Dessert Storm, where the oil fields were burning, so a bit of artistic license used here...

@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab : you are right Peter… I was just mentioning that the Apaches overall was used in both but different models.

​@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Labhi Peter,excellent review as always...just incase you werent aware Flory models have a comparison video between this and the Takom kit.

@@jaws848 Yes I just watched that today: A very interesting comparrison.👍🏻

@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab havent watched it yet...will watch later when i get home.👍

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Ooops! Sounds like I committed a FAUX PAS there! 🫢 Yes…seems not great in a gale, eh? 😜

😆 only having a dig Mr O. It's a shame really. Our friends in blue have every reason to be proud of their history, its their active and often rather silly actions to ground the other arms that let them down. After a few years dealing with Joe public its a sad fact of life they cannot understand that it all started with the Army and the Navy, and they both work best with their own indigenous air arms. Hells bells, we were only re formed because there was scant effort to provide support. Live and let live.

PS. Although the AH is after my time I have enough contacts who know. They are obviously heavy and tall so need very careful active handling on the deck. What I don't understand was why, with a weather warning out that would topple an articulated truck, that cab wasn't under cover. I didn't go into the compound at Wallop (it's a separate security gated compound, part of the stipulation for Apache) so I don't know if it has tie down points, but I doubt it.

@@Flingwing24 Yes indeed…As NIgel ‘Sharkey’ Ward put it: “Bloody useless crabs!” 🤣

Ah now I don't think that, but there have been some pretty disastrous aviation related decisions down to the green eyed monsters. At no point would the AAC or FAA threaten their existence. However going back to the squabbling over weight limits nearly saw us without arguably our best buy, the Beaver. In the end someone in Whitehall said...:make it happen". Then we had the support helicopter force. Paid for out of the Army budget and until recently not really fit for purpose. Then we have the "we don't need the big carriers....we can hit anywhere in the world". Well after raiding scrap yards and fire dumps we managed one bomb on a runway that was still operating on the day of ceasefire FFS. The irony was that the other cab capable of it and more accurately was the Buccaneer....designed for carrier use. On it went, the D4K was axed from NI to be replaced by something else. Army couldn't fly it (pressurised apparently) but it wasn't any good so quietly disappeared. Again, the Beavers often stood in for the RAF PR cabs during Op Banner. That is one aircraft that deserves a decent new mold kit. Early on they showed no interest in helicopters until this big sexy beast turned up....then they tried to offer the chinooks and pumas to the Army....hoping they would get AH (by then it was a done deal anyway). The sad thing about it all is that they have done some great things, brave, gutsy things over the last century. They did some great stuff down south, flying FRS1 or GR3, FAC and the lads with BN and SH, so why pin everything on black buck? Sharkie Ward summed that one up well but as an exe phantom man he had cause to grumble. They kept very quiet about not rigging the SAS boys kit pallets properly and dropping the lot into the Atlantic. Horses for courses though (there have been some decent RAF crew on Apache, they wouldn't pass the course otherwise, likewise Army and RM pilots graduate to support helicopters when they have to start flying desks). In the most part it is good natured banter supported by real time silliness. Did I mention we produced more astronauts...?😆

"The Force is STRONG with this one!" 👍🏻

The AH is also equipped with ferry tanks