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Best kit of the Jolly Green & Super Jolly Green?

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  • Member since
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  • From: Denver, Colorado
Best kit of the Jolly Green & Super Jolly Green?
Posted by a6m5zerosen on Saturday, February 13, 2010 9:40 PM

I'm looking for input on which kits are the best starting points to model the early Jolly Green (CH-3E/HH-3E) and the later Super Jolly Green (HH-53B/C) in 1/48th scale.  What are the best options here?

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  • Member since
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  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:45 PM

In 1/48th there is not much to choose from for those birds. Revell has done a CH/HH-53 but it is not currently in production. It is still fairly common to find on ebay though, and they did do an Air Force Vietnam issue of the kit. For the CH/HH-3 there are no mainstream injection molded kits out there. One could take a 1/48 Hasegawa SH-3 and heavily modify it, but that is the only choice out here for now.

 

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Posted by loreleone on Monday, February 15, 2010 10:05 AM

Hallo, I recived today a conversion kit to have a CH-3E/HH3-E from a hasegawa/revell kit of sh 3d in 1/48, produced from attic aircraft this conversion is realy bad, full of babble and poor in detail, ...but it's the only one and at least it's a start point. 

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  • From: Denver, Colorado
Posted by a6m5zerosen on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:27 PM

Any chance of converting one of the Academy later model CH-53s, or are there just too many differences?

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  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:35 PM

Academy did the three engined 53. A bigger bird and different tail configuration. The Revell kit is not bad and comes with everything you need except perhaps the armament. Which you can get from Cobra company

http://www.cobracompany.com/48049.htm

 

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

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