I bought two 1/72 Hobbyboss Aussie Huey kits

Thank's for the link Ray .

I did do a bit of a search around the Helicopter Forum pages for facts and images on the Australian Naval Huey's .

If I remember correctly there is quite a bit of info in the Topic Aaronw started on the UH-1E from a F+B or C .

Lot's of info on which UH-1B's had Bell Mouth intakes and others that were fitted with particle seperators .

It does appear that the bracket holding the Aux fuel tank extends a lot higher than the standard weapons rack style bracket ; So I guess I'll have to modify one to suit .

Although I'm yet to find a nice close up pic of a Aux tank arrangement .

I was thinking of taking a quick trip down the coast to the Naval Museum and take some pic's of the Huey [despite the lack of proper indoor lighting] but as I'm a carer for my elderly parents I will need to arrange respite care for a few hours .

Anyway thank's again for the help with my resin parts order from CC , I've been getting mail delivery failure notifications coming through the inbox , so I'm not sure what happened there all last week ; I've sent a whole stack of email's through again making sure I have the email address correct each time .

                                                  John

My mistake ; the RAN Huey info was in the link you posted Ray ;

I guess I've been going through so many threads lately I forget where I've read different things

John,

  Check this page. It might help.  There's another thread here somewhere on RAN Hueys, but I can't locate it at the moment.

    Ray

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Thanks, those are a nice reference. The RAN blue & white helos look particularly interesting.

 My brother had these four photo's in his album , he kindly gave them to me , so I thought I would share the pic's here as well .

I'm pretty sure it's the same RAN Huey from the pic I posted earlier

I have also noticed that the RAN Huey doesn't have armor protected seats , so I'll use some of the unarmored seats from  the Revell UH-1D kits I bought to use for spare parts .

I also like the photo my brother took of the UH-1B rotor head

                                   John .

 I did find one single photo in my small collection of Australian Helicopters .

It was taken in 1996 at HMAS Albratros , Nowra . The Naval Air Station is about 1.5 hour's south of Sydney . the photo was taken with a pocket 35mm camera , hence the poor quality .

I wish I had taken more pic's of this bird , especially around the rescue hoist and aux tank , I never even thought about walk-around pic's back then

I was once a regular visiter to the museum where a few aircraft and helicopter's are on display but when the museum became privately run a few years ago , the new owners policy was to have very little lighting inside the hanger and it's almost impossible to take a decent photo of anything . So I stop going .

Look's like someone swaped the cabin door from "898" and put it on "897"

                             John .

 Aaronw ;

Here's a couple of scans of the decal sheets

                                       John

Interesting, it looks like those are just for your market. I'll occasionally find a kit like that on ebay with something special thrown in for Canada. I guess they don't think the rest of us would be interested in Kangaroos or Maple Leaves.

If you get a chance would you mind posting a pic of just the decals / color sheet from those two? It would be a handy reference if I ever get to building some Australian hueys and I doubt I'll find those versions in the US.

 I found these two pic's while searching around goggle images

cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/P04983.002

I will build my RAAF Huey as in the pic with the Bell-mouth engine intake and I have a couple of spare M60's to arm the Huey .

                                            John .