| 2. This model also represents the last of a long line of kits completed without an airbrush. The inspiration for the model came from a flight of the real thing that flew over our house one day. I had a good view as the gunners manipulated the Gatling Mini-Guns in the nose. | 3. The Matchbox kit represents an early Cobra from the Vietnam War so it didn't have a Gatling Gun. Instead it had a Grenade Launcher. So I took the barrel from a 1/72nd scale Scimitar Tank and grafted it on. It was too heavy to stay level and the mechanism would allow it to flop onto the ground. | 4. The photo of the spinning blades works quite well. I believe I set them spinning with my finger just before pressing the shutter release. | |
