Here are a few pictures of my 1/35 scale Huey I’ve been working on. I’m about 95% complete. I need to finish painting the yellow safety stripes on the main rotor and attach it, as well as finish some weathering. This is my second real model build (excluding several many years ago when I didn’t quite know what I was doing) and my first attempt at weathering.
I have washed the model in a thinned model master acrylic wash and used mig some mig productions rainmarks. I have some mig pigments that I may try to use on the skids and floor of the cabin area.
Here is a tip as you are doing the rotor blades, Dragon messed them up. The rotor blades in the D/H kit are the same as the N kit, but are incorrect for the D/H model. They are easy to fix though. In the below picture you see the kit blade in the middle (UH-1N or Bell 212 blade). The bottom blade shows the area in red that needs to be removed for a UH-1D/H (Bell 205) blade. The top is the corrected blade.
Here are a few more pictures. I got the rotors installed and added a bit more weathering with mig productions Vietnam earth pigments. It’s not perfect, but I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out for a second model.
The outside pics look much better, good job. One other thing you might want to correct is the maintenance walkway area on the roof. Usually, there is a rectangle of anti-slip coated area in black on the roof. You can see it on the model as a cross-hatched area and on the below Hueys.
The build went together pretty well. One thing I noticed first hand was that the rivets are HUGE. I knocked them down a bit with some sand paper and that corrected the problem.
There was a pretty bad gap/step on the nose of the helo, but with putty and sanding that went away as well.
I would say that it’s a pretty good kit overall. The prepainted photo etched stuff is nice, but it is a little stiff to make the seat belts look really realistic.
I also ordered the M-60 door gun set from the Cobra company, as the kit only comes with one door gun and mount.
