Hobby Boss 1:72 Bell UH-1C "Huey"
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:08 pm
Howdy,
There was a game in old times called Gauntlet... One of the characters you could play was Warrior. If he was low on health he used to say "Warrior needs food! Warrior is about to die!"
I can paraphrase it with... "Modeller needs glue! Modeller is about to be bored
". There's my 3rd entry for GB build (hopefully I will finish all of them... but I'm still waiting for Hasegawa Mig-17/Mig-21 combo ... but postman is late 
).
If we talk about Cold War Era and those bold machines of early jet era we think... Migs, Sabres, F-4s, F-5s, -14s, big bombers, superfortresses, tupolevs... whoa tons of stuff. But then we sit down watching Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Forrest Gump, Japanese Gojira movies, Terminators, even A-Team and all these tens of movies that share one common thing:
They all starred a workhorse of American Army, the piece of cra... art that was build in numbers exceeding 15000 !
[courtresy of Wikipedia]
So there was no option not to build Bell UH-1 Iroquis family heli.
The biggest problem with UH-1 is to .. what to say to keep it short There were so many versions of the helicopter which entered service in 1959. I think that US Army used all letters in alphabet to name all the variants
Generally it was introduced as medevac aircraft to directly support soldiers on battlefield but it's versatility quickly turned it into combat transport, gunship or many other roles (also those in domestic aviation). It was mainly used by US Army, JGSDF and Australians. Many variants are still operational (even few weeks ago I saw one of commercial versions still flying over Madrid, Spain).
So this it... I must have one of them on the shelf. And my choice was HB 1:72 UH-1C gunship version.
The model itself is very nice, but as with Mi-4 ... instruction lacks directions for internal painting... C'mon HobbyBoss wakey, wakey !!
Model seems to be easy though and hopefully build will be flawless.
Some pics of the model box and "unspoiled" interior:
I will shortly present short kit review of this model.
So,
Keep calm,
Build Models
And
Stay tuned (eating cookies ).
Radek
There was a game in old times called Gauntlet... One of the characters you could play was Warrior. If he was low on health he used to say "Warrior needs food! Warrior is about to die!"
I can paraphrase it with... "Modeller needs glue! Modeller is about to be bored
". There's my 3rd entry for GB build (hopefully I will finish all of them... but I'm still waiting for Hasegawa Mig-17/Mig-21 combo ... but postman is late ).If we talk about Cold War Era and those bold machines of early jet era we think... Migs, Sabres, F-4s, F-5s, -14s, big bombers, superfortresses, tupolevs... whoa tons of stuff. But then we sit down watching Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Forrest Gump, Japanese Gojira movies, Terminators, even A-Team and all these tens of movies that share one common thing:
They all starred a workhorse of American Army, the piece of cra... art that was build in numbers exceeding 15000 !
[courtresy of Wikipedia]
So there was no option not to build Bell UH-1 Iroquis family heli.
The biggest problem with UH-1 is to .. what to say to keep it short
There were so many versions of the helicopter which entered service in 1959. I think that US Army used all letters in alphabet to name all the variants Generally it was introduced as medevac aircraft to directly support soldiers on battlefield but it's versatility quickly turned it into combat transport, gunship or many other roles (also those in domestic aviation). It was mainly used by US Army, JGSDF and Australians. Many variants are still operational (even few weeks ago I saw one of commercial versions still flying over Madrid, Spain).
So this it... I must have one of them on the shelf. And my choice was HB 1:72 UH-1C gunship version.
The model itself is very nice, but as with Mi-4 ... instruction lacks directions for internal painting... C'mon HobbyBoss wakey, wakey !!
Model seems to be easy though and hopefully build will be flawless.
Some pics of the model box and "unspoiled" interior:
I will shortly present short kit review of this model.
So,
Keep calm,
Build Models
And
Stay tuned (eating cookies
).Radek
, looking forward to seeing the painted interior 
look forward to seeing it come together 
