1/72 HH-46 “Marines Rescue” made from the Fujimi CH-46 kit with Superscale decals

Intro

I like colourful aircraft like rescue-birds, arctic colour scheme, drones or test aircrafts. For this the Rescue version of the well known CH-46 is a nice difference to the usual grey/green CH-46. In this configuration the helos are used as base flights in SAR duty.

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The Kit / Building

The kit is the standard Fujimi CH-46. Even if it is a Marines CH-46, it is not necessary to take the expensive CH-46 E/F kit as the extra parts are not needed for the HH-46. The kit gives you a nice replic of the “Frog” and fits good. I did some changes to build the SAR-helo by using plastic sheet and thin wire to build and detail the interior (the red net is made from moscito net), the winch and the searchlight.

The painting was done with Gunze colours and my airbrush, as usual, and there is no weathering, as the SAR-helos on the photos i have are all in very good and clean condition.

The decals are from superscale and and fixed with a last layer of Gunze gloss clear.

All in all it was fun to build this helicopter. Not too much extra work for the conversion and i think it is a really nice colour scheme and something really speacial in the showcase.

Hope, you like it, too.

Thomas

Any comments – just email me to: Thomas.neuss@t-online.de