Hi everyone , I have three 1/72 UH-1D Huey’s on the bench at the moment , two of them are Italeri kits which I have decided to build as RAAF “Bushranger” Huey’s ,the other is a Revell UH-1D which has some nice stetchers included in the kit .
The pic I posted shows the cabin seating arrangement options for the Revell Huey . If I wanted to build my Revell Huey as a Medevac from the vietnam war , should the two single seats be facing to the rear [not sideways behind the pilots] and should the stretchers go sideways across the cabin and then install the two small seats at the very rear of the cabin ???
I appreciate any assistance and advice on my current project .
Steps 9 & 10 are for a standard troop transport huey.
Steps 11 12 13 are for the medavac version. The two side facing seats do not get installed with the stretchers. Nor do the bench seats. For the medevac, just use the bottom three steps.
Hi Rob , thank’s for the help ; I probably didn’t phrase my question very well . I did realise that Revell give me the option of troop seats or stretchers ; It’s just the position of the stretchers in the instructions . A few pic’s I’ve seen so far on the internet seem to show only two or three stretchers installed . So I’m not sure which way the stretchers should go , [three across or three down each side of the cabin ] ???
For a Vietnam (or later) UH-1H or V MedEvac bird, the stretchers should go 3 across the cabin. The two crew chief seats should face the rear as well, directly behind the pilots seats. The 6 stretcher setup is for an air ambulance used to transport stable patients between medical centers and such, not battlefield MedEvac.
You can check out a 1/35 UH-1H MedEac that I built for a customer here.
WOW thanks Gino for the link on your Medevac Huey ; That’s exactly what I was thinking of building . I added the link to “My Favourites” on the computer .
So am I to understand that all the MedEvac Huey’s in Vietnam had rescue hoists fitted . If so I may have to try and scratch build one ?
I did like those Fireball Modelworks MedEvac decals ,
I was also wondering if the MedEvac Vietnam Huey’s had the the red cross on the nose and cabin doors or would that have made the Huey too visiable to the enemy ?
Not all MedEvac’s had hoists installed, especially early in the war. Also Red Cross markings would be on the nose also, sometimes these were toned down by not painting the white square and just carrying the cross in red
Hi Dave ; The two Bushranger Gunships I’m thinking of building are like the first two pic’s I posted above . I’ve sent away to Hawkeye Models in Canberra for some decals to match the first pic , the second pic shows white RAAF markings , so I was thinking of using the decals Italeri provide in their UH-1B Huey kit and use them on the UH-1D instead .
I also bought some Evergreen 1mm and 1.2mm round plastic to try and make up some of those rocket tubes . I have two pairs of miniguns to mount near the front cockpit for each gunship , there’s a couple of door gunners to use as well . I’m still trying to figure out how to make the twin M60D machine guns , I have a few spare guns in my stash but not M60D’s , so I’ll have to try and scratch build some using parts of the other guns .
For the MedEvac version I was just going to use some spare U.S. Army decals ; As yet I haven’t come across any pic’s of an Australian MedEvac huey . The three Huey’s would probably look better if they all had RAAF markings . Do you know of any internet sites that may pic’s of an Aussie MedEvac UH-1D .
I also noticed in the pic’s I’m using as my main source of reference is the differrent type of antenna arrangement on the RAAF Huey’s , they dont appear to have the small VHF antenna’s fitted on each side of the rear tailboom .
So that’s it so far , I sure do appreciate any assistance you can give me regarding my three Huey builds , I dont have any Aussie Aircraft in my display cabinets , everything is pretty much “USA all the way” , with a few Israeli IDF builds . Some Vietnam Huey’s with Australian markings will go well with my other Helo’s ;
Plus you just gotta love all that FIRE POWER hanging off the Aussie Huey’s [:(!]
I forgot to mention that one of the Italeri UH-1D Huey’s is an ex USAF bird . That’s why it still has the ADC gray paint finish . The local hobby stores are currently out of stock of the Italeri UH-1D’s , so I decided to redo one of my earlier builds . Instead of stripping back the whole Huey , I carefuuly removed the landing gear skids and cut open the fuselage from the nose section so I could pull out the cabin floor and roof section . Italeri incorrectly tell you to paint the roof and rear wall interior green , I wanted to fix this error so I re-airbrushed the interior dark gull gray FS.36231 . I also made some seat armour out of some black cardboard to fit around the cockpit seats . Also a lot of pic’s I’ve seen show those small cabin doors on both sides of the fuselage removed , so I was thinking of doing the same .
I don’t every remember seeing any photo’s of RAAF MedEvac aircraft, but Red Cross markings were set by the Geneva Accords so they would be similar to US markings
Sorry, I haven’t been here in a while. here’s some pics of VN Medivacs. I am pretty sure that all are in country birds. I have pictures of others in color but they do not appear to be in country. You’ll notice the first pic has a M60 mounted. That isn’t standard, but wasn’t unheard of in Vietnam where the bad guys didn’t much care about the Geneva Convention. I hope these help.
The UH-1V was an upgrade of the UH-1H that added a radar altimeter, improved particle separator and new main rotor blades (I believe there was an engine upgrade too). It was not a dedicated Medevac version and it was introduced well after Vietnam. Current ones also have GPS installed. The sensor is mounted on the back side of the upper WSPS blade over the windscreen.
Thanks for sharing the pic’s , they will certainly help a lot .[tup]
I thought you might have gone on holiday’s over the christmas/new year season . I’m lucky enough to have 4 weeks annual leave over January , so I’m hoping to complete a lot of builds I’ve started , [half are finished , just waiting to be decaled] . I think I’ll go ahead with removing those small side cabin doors , Italeri molded them as part of the fuselage , unlike their UH-1N version which are supplied seperatly . With the small doors off it will be easier to see the two seats behind the pilots on the MedEvac version . Also on the gunship Huey’s , am I correct in thinking that behind the pilots seats is where the ammo box would be for the forward miniguns .
When I was searching around FSM pages , a lot of pic’s you and others previously posted show a hole cut through the side doors for the ammunition belts to fed through . Although I have looked at so many Huey pic’s lately , I dont want start confussing myself [%-)]
I was thinking of using some small rubber bands cut to length and painted silver to represent the ammo belts . I also have what look to be some M60C machine guns , there were four that came with the Revell UH-1D kit and I had four already in my stash . So I was thinking about trying to convert those to use . Am I also right in thinking about making stocks for the rear of the guns and adding some type of pistol grips , being a twin machine gun set-up , I’m really not quite sure how they actually look .
Also I dont think I’ll build a rescue hoist on this version , the guns and rocket tubes will be enough work for me .
Hopfully by tonight I should have the fuselage halves glued together on all three and I can start on the guns and rocket tubes .
Thanks again for the help everyone , I sure to appreciate it . Lots more comments and suggestions are always welcomed .
John, I’m afraid calling those pieces of plastic “guns” is kinda stretching it. They are the original M60C’s from the Hasegawa kit, repopped by Revell and ACE and probably others over the years. You can get decent M-60A’s from teh Italeri OH-13 kit. But I still added several PE parts to mine to make em look the part. here’s the ones I did for my dad’s gunship. Good luck.
I do have some of those OH-13 guns , two were from an earlier build , two are from a OH-13 kit in my stash . Although I haven’t seen the Italeri OH 13 kit for quite a while in the hobby stores . As you have said the guns from the OH-13 are much better looking , I just thought the barrells might be a little short in length ???
That’s quite a weapons stash you got there! As for the size of the 60’s, to be quite honest, I’m pretty sure they are a little overscale, but no those barrels are just fine. you can see the barrel projects well beyond the gas cylinder, just like the real thing. Some special forces units and OH-6 gunners used short M60’s but the barrel and gas cylinder are the same length on those. Here’s you a few pics.
Ray
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I think part of your problem is that the barrels have the forearms removed. It makes them look longer than they are. Kinda like this:
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the only way I know for you to get this is to take the barrels off a C or D and graft them to the A trigger and stock. Anyway, I hope this helps.
