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Cobra Viper
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Location: Illinois
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Another project I?ve been fooling around with on and off?
The GI Joe Field Manual Volume 1 has a drawing of a ?Cobra Reconnaissance Helicopter.? In looking for where this was used in the show, I found it in an episode titled ?The Traitor,? where Dusty goes undercover as a traitor to Cobra. He is freed from prison and whisked away in a Cobra helicopter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The helicopter reminds me the most of a cargo version of the Dragonfly, complete with the NOTAR instead of a tail rotor and the Dragonfly?s side cannon awkwardly-placed on the tail boom. Because of this, I decided to start with an AH-1 cobra kit. Unlike the AH-1, this helicopter has a passenger/cargo component and is wider. The solution I came up with for this was to insert a thick styrene strip in between the two halves of the fuselage. ![]() That solved the initial problem of making it wide enough to look like a utility helicoplter, but then I had to reconfigure the cockpit to have a side-by-side pilot arrangement. This also meant that I had to fix the canopy so there?s not a big solid styrene strip where the pilots are supposed to be looking out of. ![]() ![]() I used some clear plastic to make a new front canopy. ![]() ![]() I had to cut holes for the side doors. I have added details with strip styrene to try to disguise what I fed with widening it. ![]() I just did an initial primer coat to see how things look so far. More updates to follow. ![]() |
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Crimson Guard
Join Date: Dec 2021
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This is going to be an amazingly crazy build when complete.
Didn't the Joe's have a cargo version of the Dragonfly?
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