http://www.cybermodeler.com/editorial/ed051023.shtml
As stolen from the HKN forum, posted by a Jay Carrell.
Apologies if this has been posted before.
Very interesting indeed! I’ll be looking for more sightings of that 1/48 -53E, that’s for sure. Thanks for the link.
I like it!!! Can’t wait!!!
cool, all I need in 1/48 for my all MARINE AIR collection is a $hitter,[:D]
By a $hitter, if you mean a CH-47 Chinook, USMC doesn’t/didn’t use them. CH-47 is an Army only helo.
If you mean a CH-46 Sea Knight, Academy has one in 1/48 scale.
I’m EXTREMELY interested in that fire engine in the background of the CH-47 photo’s…
Anyone have any info on this!?
All Marines know the CH-53E as the hitter. The nickname stems from the black smoke trail that follows it. Hardly anyone calls it the Sea Stallion or Super Stallion. The actual spelling of shtter has been discouraged on this forum on in the past.
O.K., never heard it called that. I thought he was referring to the Chinook’s nickname of the $hithook.
ARGHHHHHHH!!!
The pic shows the HOOK built as the D again! What gives!!!
I can’t stand it!!! …Unless thats just the parts the builder was given from the factory?
Crapy build up from what I can see. I hope the top portion of the rear cargo door swings up and in…looks like they got the ramp details correct.
That MRC kit looks pretty darn cool too!
No, I think he means CH-53.
At least that is what we used to call them when I was in the Marines (1975-80)
'46s were known as Phrogs and CH-47s were commonly referred to by those outside the Chinook community as $hithooks.
HTH
Jonathan Primm
Yeah, I saw that too and wondered WTF? The ramp and hatch on CH-47s works differently than it does on CH-46s.
When the ramp is lowered a sequence valve operates to draw the hatch INSIDE the ramp. The only thing that holds the hatch up is the ramp, there are no attachment points on the fuselage for the hatch.
Getting a good fit on the hatch and fuselage was sometimes difficullt and it was often common practice in A and C models to attach a cargo strap on the ramp and run it over part of the aft transmission in order to keep the ramp from falling.
This was when the aircraft was parked. It only took once or twice getting a call around midnight from airfield guards reporting an unsecured aircraft for people to start using that method until they could replacement parts to fix the problem.
I don’t recall having the problem on D models, but then ones I crewed were relatively new from the conversion process.
HTH
Jonathan Primm
Thanks a lot for those 1/48 CH-53E test shots…I will definitely be anticipating that release!
That Navy phrog also looks very interesting…will that be a special decal release? I had the great pleasure of actually seeing that very aircraft conducting vertreps a hundred yards away from me while underway in 2003 in the CENTCOM AOR. Stunning to see that paintjob in person and in flight. Of course my camera was 7 decks down in berthing at the time!
Can’t wait for the -53
I’m guessing that whomever they had build that has never seen a Chinook up close… That big empty gap in the ramp would have been a dead giveaway…
Nice NEW pix of the Trump HOOK!!! Thanks!!!
The rear view pic is very funny… The top half of the ramp being glued in place and the ramp down. I laughed when I saw that!!![(-D] The guy who builted that one doesn’t know the Chinook to well for sure!!! I am a little confused about something.
Why do they keep calling it an A model and keep showing what is deffinitly a Delta model kit??? At the Great Models site, they have it up for preorder for $112.00 and in ther discription of it they mention markings for a HOOK from Desert Storm (Delta model) and one from Nam era (A model) . So it looks to me that all the parts should be there in one box!!! Can’t wait to open up mine an see for my self!!![:)][;)]
Very intresting!!!
Mark
Okay, Mark. Bear with me on this.
I could be wrong but, I do not believe that there will be parts to build one of two versions in one box. It wouldn’t matter if they were, you would still have to buy two kits to build both versions anyway.
I, personally, think the days of 3-1 kits are a thing of the past. Oh, sure, there are a few armor kits offering 3-1 formats. But, take a look at Academy as an example. They could have included different sponsons in the CH-46 kit to build other versions. But, they didn’t. They marketed it as two different kits. They also could have included something as simple as two extra decal sheets to build different special and different unit markings. But, they didn’t. They, again marketed it as two different kits.
As for the description of decals for an ‘A’ or a ‘D’? It could very well be a misprint. Maybe not. Maybe they didn’t do their homework and honestly feel that you can build an ‘A’ version from Vietnam or Desert Storm, which we know can’t be done because our resident hook experts on the boards have told us that there were no ‘A’ models in Desert Storm…
Now, as I said, this is just my opinion. I think that the day of the AMT 3-1 car kits are gone. Even then, you had to buy more than one kit to build the 3 versions.
All I can say is…
ARGHHHHH!!!
53’s are $h*tters… but not only because of the exhaust smoke. They also leave stains whereever they park. We don’t mean CH-47, who needs those things? The 53E is the King of Heavy Lift. Sorry Hook fans, but it’s the truth.
Yeah, but what good is it, if you can’t get it off the ground?
Unless things have changed with the Es, I remember earlier CH-53s being notorious for going T.U. prior to launch. I was in the CH-46 det of HMH-461 Dec76-May77 and when I was in Okinawa (77-78) with HMM-164 it was the rule rather than the exception to have to pick up Island SAR whenever HMH-462 or the Air Force '53 Det couldn’t deal with it because of NMC aircraft. [:)]
The CH-47 units I was in on the other hand enjoyed high Operational Readiness Rates, usually 78-85%,
Now if you really want to talk heavy lift, lets talk about Mi-26s! [;)]
I ubject that remark!!!
The HOOKER has a very bright future in the skies man!!!
Can’t say that for the Jar head 53’s because the AV-22 Osprey will soon send them packing and the CH-47 CHINOOK will continue on!!! Why?? Because HOOKER’s RULE!!! How that for truth!!!