Kitty Hawk 1/48 UH-1D Huey

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Kitty Hawk 1/48 UH-1D Huey

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OK, off and running, nothing started, just opening my build. I am building this
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I will be doing her in The Good Widow Mrs. Jones markings. I have actual images of the real bird obtained from one of her pilots. Here is the actual nose art, from when he flew her.
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Nice! Those are great, iconic aircraft....love 'em.
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Nice! Will be interesting to see how accurate this kit is. As iconic as the Huey no kit manufacturer seems to get everything right about her.
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Cool. I’ll be following this one. Hot nose art!
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Huey gunship! Nice! I like the nose art too!! Watching this one....
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One area the Kitty Hawk kit gets wrong is the scissors/push pull tubes on the rotor head. Will have to figure out how to correct it. I'll try to post pics of what I mean later. Oh, BTW, not a gunship, troop transport. The only country to use the D/H as a gunship was Australia.
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Oh can't wait to see this one! I've always wanted to do a Dustoff helo.
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midnightprowler wrote:One area the Kitty Hawk kit gets wrong is the scissors/push pull tubes on the rotor head. Will have to figure out how to correct it. I'll try to post pics of what I mean later. Oh, BTW, not a gunship, troop transport. The only country to use the D/H as a gunship was Australia.
The ARVN also used the long cabin Hueys as gunships.

This will be a good one to follow... :popcorn:
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That's right, I forgot about that lol.
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Next month the UH-1D will have its last flight here in Germany. Good bye, Teppichklopfer!
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