This is the tiny 1:200 scale Japanese air force C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW, Komaki Air Base.
The model arrived in the post, and was a gift from Murray H., a dear friend in Alberta, who knew I was having a tough time these days. This was a challenging Covid-19 build.
It is shown as a desert boneyard storage queen with taped front glass and a missing engine. The engine is literally missing. It popped off and none of us here could find it in a tiny room. How bizarre.
Paint is all Vallejo regular and metalizer acrylic, plus Future Floor Wax and decals OOB. I love orange! Paint jobs with the day-glow flouescent orange like these were used on aircraft going to the arctic and antarctic, as well as target towing aircraft and other special purpose mission aircraft which needed to be very highly visible.
Strange Herc fact: entering service in 1956, the C-130 recently passed the Antonov AN-2 to become the world's longest continuously produced military aircraft.
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| C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW, Komaki AB In the desert boneyard - never to fly again. |
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| C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW, In the desert boneyard - never to fly again. |
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| C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW, In the desert boneyard - never to fly again. |
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| C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW, In the desert boneyard - never to fly again. |
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| An actual USAF C-130 from antarctic missions in endless storage at Davis–Monthan AFB in Tucson Arizona USA. |
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| C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW, In the desert boneyard - never to fly again. |
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| C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW, In the desert boneyard - never to fly again. |
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| C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW, In the desert boneyard - never to fly again. |
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| C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW, In the desert boneyard - never to fly again. |
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| C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW, In the desert boneyard - never to fly again. |
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| C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW, In the desert boneyard - never to fly again. |
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| C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW, In the desert boneyard - never to fly again. |
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| C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW In the desert boneyard - never to fly again. |
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| C-130H Hercules from 401st Sqdn TAW, In the desert boneyard - never to fly again. |
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| Under contstruction in the Lockheed plant which just so happens to be in my spare bathroom. |
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| Under contstruction in the Lockheed plant which just so happens to be in my spare bathroom. |
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| Under contstruction in the Lockheed plant which just so happens to be in my spare bathroom. |
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| Under contstruction in the Lockheed plant which just so happens to be in my spare bathroom. |
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| Under contstruction in the Lockheed plant which just so happens to be in my spare bathroom. |
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| Under contstruction in the Lockheed plant which just so happens to be in my spare bathroom. |
