1/48 Huey Hog decals ??'s

Ray is right too, you can go that way, did it myself years ago, but I used the old Aurora kit and it had the counterweights on the head

kg4kpg wrote:

Thanks Ray, good info.  I found the 48-11 sheet (for just 7 bucks), what needs to be done to convert to a B model?  I guess I can do a search as well.  Thanks for the info, good stuff.

chris,

  Here are my 2 cents worth on this subject from another thread:

"It seems no one has considered making the Revell Hog into a B-model.  This would not be that difficult if you just robbed the rotor (and shorten to 44 scale feet) from an Italeri (kit #849) or AMT 1/48 D model (kit#8867).  The rotors and rotor head looks better on the Italeri, in my opinion, but the trailing edges of the rotor blade are incorrect and will need to be sanded down.   You would also need to add the blade counterweights to the rotor haed, but that shouldn't be too difficult (You can also get these from a 1/48 Fujimi UH-1B, kit. #31015,  rotors are BAD on this kit though) .  Also, the Hog model has fuel filler points on BOTH sides.  You could just fill in the left filler point and leave the right one.  Oh, and you need to leave off the roof mounted pitot tube and scratch one for the nose (if you want a B model).  If you build a C model or late model  B you could remove the  FM antenae from the nose.  I don't think a ship would have both the FM antenae on the nose and the "towel bar" FM antennae as well (right, Gino)?  A late B model would also most likely sport the M-21 armamant system with miniguns which you could also get from the armed 1/48 AMT UH-1D  and XM-157 (already in the HOG kit) or M-158 7 shot rocket pods (the 158 pods with individual tubes replaced the older XM-157's).  Most important of all is to rememebr that this is an ARMY Huey not a MARINE Huey so you got to get new decals (Unless you have Revell kit. 04476, which also has Army decals).  Marines flew the UH-1E which had a distinct housing for the rescue hoist mounted on the roof and used the TK-2 mounting system with a different weapons arrangement.   There is a lot to consider if you want your bird to be  completely accurate.  Good luck!"

I hope this helps 

    Ray

 

There were more Super Scale sheets made then 48-11, but they have been OOP for may years and will be hard to find. You could also get Joesph's decals for basic markings and then piece together the proper tail number. When Cobra Company reopens you can get the C model conversion set or you can watch E-Bay for it

Thanks Ray, good info.  I found the 48-11 sheet (for just 7 bucks), what needs to be done to convert to a B model?  I guess I can do a search as well.  Thanks for the info, good stuff.

  Chris,

Since you can't build an accurate Charlie model with the Huey Hog kit OOB anyway, you could convert it to a UH-1B (both corrections for a B and C have been discussed on threads here before) and us the old Microscale set 48-11. If you can find it, it has markings for three Army UH-1B's. If you are inclined to do a HA(L)-3 Navy bird go here: http://webpages.charter.net/osborn82/fm_D03.htm

Joseph has some of the best decals around and you can build any Seawolf helicopter with this sheet.  Hope that helps a little.

     Ray

Thanks, I'll check it out.

I'm not sure if this is of much help , but when I built my Revell/Monogram 1/48 Huey Hog , I also bought a cheap "Hobbyworld"/"Lindberg" UH-1B Huey , mainly to use the decals . Which had white ARMY on the tail boom . I also ended up using the narrow main rotor blades and elevator's . The Hobbyworld kit was $10 so using the decals and rotors etc seemed to be worth the cost .

I hope this helps ........

                                     Kind regards John