Rotary-wing fans will need no introduction to the AH-64 Apache, the US Army's all-weather attack helicopter. This pugnacious bruiser has been captured to a tee in 1 /48 by Hasegawa. The real aircraft looks simple at first glance, but look closer at the nose-mounted Target Acquisition and Designation Sight, the 30 mm nose gun. the wing stubs, the undercarriage, the rotors, the ordnance, and a different perspective emerges. The Apache is a complicated aircraft and Hasegawa has reproduced this machine with a complicated kit. More than 200 parts go into the mixing pot. but where do they go? Ten parts alone make up the tail rotor, while the main rotor uses up a staggering 20. This all looks a bit daunting, and the instructions do nothing to help They follow quite a logical assembly sequence but the 25 construction stages have been crammed together on the instruction sheet, making an already complex kit look even more frightening.
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