The "Twin Huey" is one of my favoured helicopters and I was highly enthusiastic as I heard about this 1/35 model and had to build one ASAP as I got the kit.  Building of the kit went very straight forward. There are no big fit problems and you can build a nice UH-1N out of the box.  As I wanted to build a rescue chopper, I had to add some details.  The inboard winch was build out of wire and plastic sheet as was the searchlight with mounting on the port side.  I added some details like seatbelts, “rescue equipment”, details of the wire cutters and so on.

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The painting was done with my airbrush and Gunze colours, with layers of future between decals and weathering and a last coat of Gunze clear flat.  As I had no decal sheet for this helicopter, I had to take decals out of the “spares box” and dry transfers for the letters.  As the rescue choppers are in a good condition the weathering was only on the tail boom in the exhaust area.

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All in all I enjoyed the building and I really like the result.  As the photo with the 1/72 UH-1N shows it is a really big model in 1/35 and a real eyecatcher in the showcase.

I hope, you like it  

Thomas 

Any comments – just mail:  thomas.neuss@t-online.de

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