Grasshoppers Alouette III

Spanjaard
looking good

Remco van Haren
Thanks. It's fun to do.

Mid Franconian
Perfect! A pleasure to look at. Built Alouettes are rather rare to see.

Neil
Hi Remco, 🙂 Agreed. This is both delightful and awesome! You've pulled off a great paint job 👍 impressive work 👏

Remco van Haren
Well, thank you everybody. I was quite happy with the result, although the kit is not that good or accurate.

Actually I built it for someone else: when I was working with the Royal Netherlands Air Force (Koninklijke Luchtmacht - KLu) some 15 years ago, we had a lieutenant that was a former crewchief with The Grasshoppers Demoteam. One day he had this kit on his desk and he told me he was looking for somebody to build it in the colourscheme of The Grasshoppers.
I (me and my big mouth) told him that I would do that for him. But as things go, he retired and I left the Air Force and the kit remained unfinished. Until last year...
I managed to contact him through Facebook and arranged a meeting at the "Alouette Museum Barneveld" where he is a volunteer. There I handed him the model, after a long time.

As said: the kit is rather "off scale" (1:50 in stead of 1:48 as stated on the box). I built it OOB and especially the colourscheme and decals (which I made myself) were very fun to do.