This will be the official build blog for Hasegawa's new 1/72 MV-22 Osprey. For an excellent unboxing and sprue review please visit Jim's thread here.
Jim's review
This will hopefully be an in-depth build blog with as much reference as I can muster to find for the build.
I thought it might be interesting to put in a nice size comparison so that we can see the actual size of the MV-22 in relation to some other Helo's... I am using the Hasegawa SH-60B, Fujimi MK-41 and Italeri MH-53E to compare sizes.
As you can see in the photo the MV-22 is roughly the same size as the MK-41, however it has almost the same cargo space as the MH-53E. I will tell you this though, the cargo compartment height is only 66" at it's highest point!
We will start with step 1
This step has us jump right in and assemble the 2 fusalage halves, cockpit and wheel wells.
The cockpit is pretty devoid of detail, but hopefully this will suffice do to the scale. There is no detail for the instruments. Instrument detail is provided in the form of a decal.
Also of note is the fact that the landing gear wheel wells are only represented as a box's. I feel this will be ok for this scale as not much will be seen anyway once it is all assembled.
Color callout for the interior is FS36231, Dark Gull Grey, Which is what I will be using...
There is also NO cargo compartment detail what so ever, so this will be an all doors closed build.
Here is a Pic of the actual Cargo compartment. As you can see it is VERY busy
Well this was just a brief intro to get the ball rolling. Hopefully I will be completing step one this evening as it does not entail much. A little sanding, paint and glue is all I need. During the dry fit of the fuselage halves the fit seems to be very good will very little if any filler being required.
MORE to follow soon!!!
Feel free to ask any questions on the MV/CV-22 that you might have. If I don't know the answer I can most likely find it out...
J
