What custom livery for a 1/48 Academy MD-500?

Modeling Subjects Helicopters
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So, I picked up an Academy MD-500 (the ASW version) off of Ebay for $7.00. I’m thinking of dressing it up as a civilian version, going for either a seafoam green paint scheme with NUMA markings from Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt novels, OR…a white paint job with MNU markings from the movie District 9. What do you guys think? I don’t think I’ve ever seen an aircraft in markings of either of these options.

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I have a source for ya to check out helicopter schemes. The site is airliners.net. They have tons of MD-500 paint jobs…You’ll love the G-JIVE heli. I used to fly RC helicopters, and built a scale MD-500, and this was a popular place to choose paint jobs. I actually spoke to the original painter of the heli I built!!!

Jeff

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http://www.airliners.net/photo/MD-Helicopters-MD-500E/1862070/M/

Hopefully the link works…This is G- JIVE a beautiful heli. too bad someone repainted her…

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Or T.C.'s helicopter from Magnum P.I.

http://magnum-mania.com/images/1_8_f_full.jpg

Pat.

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Well, I decided to go with the sea foam green NUMA paint job. I’ve got a can of Krylon in that color that I’m trying to figure out how to decant later this week.

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That is a nice paint job on that heli… sub the blue with lime green to make a statement lol.