I recently bought Italeri’s EH-101 Merlin , kit no.1219 , While I was reading the instruction sheet which gave a brief description of the helicopter ; It states that the U.S.Marines was considering using this helicopter . If so, I would very much like to make it as a Marine Corps version. However searching the Internet I could not find any referrence to the U.S.Marines considering this helicopter .Does anybody have any additional information ?
Yep, it will be the next Marine One, we had a thread on it a few months ago
And in case you haven’t heard, it’s been designated the VH-71A.
Phil
Thank’s for the advice john and phil , I checked the Internet again with the correct aircraft designation [VH-71A / US-101] and found lot’s of pic’s . however it seems the U.S.Military version is more like the EH-101 Merlin MK.3 RAF helicopter. Perhaps I need to purchase this version to make a more accurate U.S.Navy /USAF helicopter .
Bought this bird few months back, and from the assembled picture on the box itself, looks real sweeet…~ Helo 53, how about posting the progress of this bird so noobs like me could learn while you build…? : )