I just completed this 1/48 KH Huey as a comission. Paints are Model Master enamels, and Flory washes for some light grime and artist oil paints for color modulation and streaks. Light chipping here and there using a #2 pencil.
I’m not a helo guy so I hope I did ok with it. All comments welcomed.
Looks great. Good job on it.
Sharp!
Hi, Ernie - Now that is a first rate job, super realistic build and finish. Those enamel paints can turn out some good looking results, can’t they?
Thanks for the post and photos.
Patrick
Nice build. One question, what happened to the stabilizer bar? It shouldn’t be right on the rotor head.
Visible on second picture. it’s there.
Thanks Patrick. Yes Sir I’ll take my enamels and oils over the acrylic ones any day. Thanks for looking.
Thanks Gino and ortiz.
I mean it sould be a bit above the rotor head. Yours looks even with or slightly below.
Here is a shot of a real Huey. Look at the stabilizer bar and refer to yours.
As per the KH parts it’s just a tad above the rotor assembly. It doesn’t bother me that it should be a little higher as in the picture. Why is the tail rotor in the picture on the opposite side of the boom?
It’s a very nice kit with great fitting parts and fantastic interior detail.
Ahoy plasticjunkie, I noticed the “wrong-side” tail rotor too. However, I note that the TH-1H, HH-1H (both Air Force varieties) and UH-1J (Japanese built) have the tail rotor on the starboard side. All of the UH-1D’s and UH-1H’s I ran into in Vietnam (US Army versions) had the tail rotor on the Port side.
Thanks Eagle for the explanation. I wonder if the Stabilizer bar is located higher than on the D?
It’s the same height above on all Huey’s. I just thought you might like to know. Yours is the only kitty hawk kit I’ve seen built with it like that so its not a flaw in the kit. Your build is great otherwise.
Thanks for the input, however here’s another KH that has the part in question the same way as mine so it looks like a flaw by KH, again no big deal to me. And by the way I used his decals which are excellent.
I stand corrected. After looking at a number of builds, you are right, it is a flaw in the kit. Your pics made it more apparent for some reason, but it’s there. When I do this kit I will have to correct it. That placement of the stabilizer bar and the scissors placement to me are way off.
Yes it looks like a small whoops in their research and knowing that in advance I would have corrected it so lesson learned for the next one. Thanks for looking.
I never meant my comment as a criticism of your build itself, it’s great.
No offense taken. We are here to learn from each other. Again, thanks for your input.
PJ,
I think you did a fabulous job!!
I have the same kit and plan to build it for one of my CFI’s (husband and wife team). Wayne was a pilot in C/229th AHB, First Cavalry Division Vietnam 1966-67. I only hope mine will look 1/2 as good as yours!
Please forgive the reflections from the windows in the hangar offices. It’s a painting of the Huey’s Wayne flew.
