Lockheed LC-130F Hercules
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This is the 1/72 Italeri C-130 kit (Testors boxing) built as an LC-130F of the United States Navy.
It represents LC-130F 148321 of VXE-6 which crashed in 1971 at an ice runway 860 miles (1,380 km) from McMurdo Station as a result of two JATO bottles ejecting improperly and striking one of the aircraft's propellers. In 1987 the aircraft was dug out of the snow and had temporary repairs carried out allowing it to be flown out to McMurdo Station and thence to Christchurch, New Zealand. It re-entered service and spent several more seasons doing Antarctic work. The aircraft was retired to Davis-Monthan AFB sometime after 1998 and still resides there as far as I know.
I used the Cutting Edge ski conversion as well as some scratch building of antennas and the fairing behind the nose wheel well. The flaps are from Attack Squadron and I replaced the engines with units from Ron's Resin. The decals came from the Max Decal sheet.
Excellent result and very interesting history of the specific bird, Ray!
Very impressive!
Beautiful build of a Hercules with an interesting background, Ray @rays
Hercules' with skies is new to me, it must be impressive to see such an aircraft landing on snow.
I would have never expected a Hercules in snow shoes! Great build!
Thanks for the kinds words gents ( @fiveten , @tcinla , @johnb & @gkittinger)
Nicely done Ray , another interesting version.