1/48 Hasegawa AH-64A Apache – Peten

by Gidi Vitkon

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The Boeing AH-64 Apache is one of  the Israeli air force main core fighters named "paten" meaning Elapidae snake. When it was decided to develop a new schema for the Apache fleet some "patens" where painted in an experimental schemes. Eventually the brown, cream and gray schemes was adopted.

Now this desert bird looks different from the usual all green apache. 

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I added the excellent new Isracast conversion kit for the Israeli AH64 and used the Isradecal sheet no 23. The Isracast conversion consists of all the RWR antennas and chaff dispensers added to the Paten, also get two external fuel tanks.

Painting was done with Humbrol colors and weathering was done with Pastels.

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The hasegawa kit is was a pleasure to build; I also want to thank Mr. Yoav Efrati and Mr. ra'anan  Weiss  for there help in this project.

Gidi

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Photos and text © by Gidi Vitkon