As promised, a progress pic. Not much at the moment, but it’s something. Added the rest of the windows last night, hoping to get some seam work done tonight:
Here’s my MH-60K Blackhawk, all primed and ready to be “olived”. [:)]
Hoping to paint tonight, at least the top of the aircraft.
John,
Looks good so far, cant wait to see more of your pics.
I have the basic color on my Medevac bird, will be working on the weathered, greased, etc. colors soon.
Wow somebody making progress … and what a progress!
Great work knight667!
I hope to continue my work ont the pavehawk this weekend. Let’s hope that at least this time it will work out.
Hehe, I was starting to think that this build was jinxed, but obviously at least one member is working on this.
I’ll continue to work and concentrate on it, when my other projects are done, just remind me not to join GB’s untill I finished this one [:D]
Got the top half painted OD yesterday, hoping to do the underside tonight, Future tomorrow, decal on Sunday, dullcote Monday and give it to my friend (who I’m building it for) by next Friday. [:D]
Hope it is not too late, but OD Green is not correct for a US Army helo. Standard UH-60L is US Arny Helo Drab, it is a dark green, almost black. Testor’s Model Master has the color in the bottle. For a 160th SOAR MH-60K, the color should be flat black with dark OD Green markings. See Pics.
Black MH-60L/Ks
Also, the upswept ESS wings were only a prototype and never approved/purchased by US Military. All current MH-60Ks use the standard downswept ESS wings.
Helo Drab Green Prototype MH-60K
Well, ratspit. [V] Thanks for the heads up, Gino. That’s what I get for following the directions with the kit. Here’s what the box art looks like, FYI:
So I’ll strip off the uprights then (don’t feel like scratchbuilding at all) and repaint. Looks like US Army Helo Drab is FS34031, does that sound right to you? I’m almost positive my decals are in black, unfortunately. Here’s my dilemna: my LHS doesn’t carry much, certainly not the MM paints in the 2000 series. I’d have to drive 40 miles to the nearest one that carries this paint. My alternative is to order it, but that’s nuts to pay shipping for one bottle of paint…unless I need something else. I could order new decals from Cobra Company and do the helo in black, but it would be cheaper to order the paint. Suggestions, thoughts?
Note: whoever can guess where “Well, ratspit.” came from wins two points. [:D]
I just did some more research and found these pictures:
Those look like operational helos to me…with the same sort of fuel-wings that I have on mine. Granted, my color is still wrong, but the fuel tanks look right to me…
Anyone?
Suggestion for the color Knight… try mixing your own? should be too hard, maybe not 100% accurate but worth a try. Olive drab with liberal amounts of flat black?
Sorry, the pics you have are of the test bird. See the orange probe sticking off the refueling probe, it is a test probe for airspeed, crosswind, etc. and other data. The upswept wings were not bought by the US Military.
For the Helo Drab paint, that is the correct FS #. If you can’t get the MM one, you could follow Awood23 suggestion for the paint as well. If you look back through the UH-60 GB posts, I believe that someone has actually given the mix ratios to mix it yourself. If not, just post in the helo forum and someone will answer up pretty quickly.
Gino, thanks for the confirmation on the wings; I’ll rip those off tonight. I can order the paint…I guess I’ll just have to order something else to hit the $10 minimum at Great Models. [:D]
Helo Drab would look O.K., but these aircraft, Kilo models, are only used by US Spec Ops, i.e. 160th SOAR and are usually in flat black, like almost all 160th SOAR birds. You may want to get the CC SOAR decals. Send me an email and I will send you a decal file designed for 1/35 SOAR birds that Avus and I developed. All you would have to do is reduce them to 73% for 1/48 scale and print them out onto white decal paper. You have to use white so the decals do not dissappear into the black fusalage color. The decals have a black surround that hides the white decal film. I used them on my MH-60L DAP, you can see it here: http://photobucket.com/albums/v231/HeavyArty/MH-60L%20DAP/
Gino, sent you an email. Thanks for your help!
A little update on my progress. Didn’t have much time to work last night, but I managed to rip off the wings and clean that up and then paint the helo flat black, or at least the top half. I’ll turn it over this evening and paint the underside.
Here’s the updated pics:
Ripped the wings off, painted it black. After this pic, I painted the details (landing lights, strut shocks, etc.) and then Futured it. Hoping to decal tonight (got the Testors Decal Set over the weekend).
Looks much better to me. I’ve always prefered the black Nightstalker paint to standard US Army Helo Drab. It just looks much more aggressive to me.[2c] Thanks for the pics John.
Looking good so far. Can’t wait to see how the decals come out. Keep us posted.
Again, great work so far knight667.
I’m curious to see how the decals turn out reducing their size.
In 1/35 some of the stencils are barely readable; hope that in 1/48 they won’t turn out a mess.
Yipee!! I managed to make some progress last weekend!
Here’s a pic of the cargo ceiling I’m making with help of intruder_bass’ scheme.
Hope to complete it next WE.