Rick's Huey uh-1b work in progress ( FINISHED)

I'm really enjoying watching your progress.  Love all the pictures.

Good grief! I have a decent grasp on how to weather military models....or at least I THINK I do....and I still can't get mine to look that good. That's exceptional.

Thank you for the kind words .

Weathering is very new to me . I'm using Flory weathering product

midnightprowler

Thank you

Good grief! I have a decent grasp on how to weather military models....or at least I THINK I do....and I still can't get mine to look that good. That's exceptional.

She's looking very nice.

Here I'm working on  filling the gap .

update some progress again .

Paint the inside front top windows

Thanks heavyArty

One easy way to improve your pics is to shoot against a solid background.  I use a medium blue poster board.  The background removes all the clutter and allows the eye to focus on the model.

A couple  examples, both using the same base kit; 1/35 Panda/Dragon UH-1D/H.

No background.

With solid background, much easier to focus on just the model.

are you yanking my crank.  i wish i could post pics as good.

Thank you . HeavyArty

I'm hoping to finish the inside this weekend and flat clear coat .

i wish my pictures were little better

Rick G

Looks really nice.  The colors are right on  The helo is coming along nicely too.  

I thought , I would throw my State football team cheerleaders In here . 

Indiana colts football cheerleaders

update so picture .

I painted and weathered the main rotor .

Well, since you started the inter-service rivalry...

The Air Force may have taught you it was called a engine air particle system but the Marine Corps used the correct nomenclature of Engine Air Particle Separator.  ;)

BTW, the Air Force did use tip stripes on Hueys.  Depends on the unit and time frame I suppose.

http://www.usafhpa.org/40tharrs/40arrs.html

we did it when the blade bolts got full.   lets go to the engine section of the model.  first section was called the e.a.p.s  engine air particle system.  it is basically a particle slinger.  so the first section, after the input quill,  is a screen.  usually see thru, but in any case it  is a screen.   and as for my using punctuation, I am lucky to type this with out screwing the pooch on the attempt ! (hay, look, punctuation)

I tracked a lot of Hueys and we aways used different colored grease pencils on the 1/4" thick tip for the blade tie down hook.  What color the blade tip was didn't have a thing to do with it!  Never heard of weighting a main blade on it's tip.  Not a standard or approved procedure.  Spent 10 years crewing Hueys.

"ok, then,   in the air force,  we trained our pilots to fly them, not to crash them into one another"

I think that might be a bit diengenuous since I don't recall Eagle flights of USAF Hueys flying in tight formations into hostile LZs.   I do know the 20th SOS definitely did some formation flying with UH-1F'/P's though with small numbers of aircraft.  I think these photos from Tommy Thornton from 65-66 give you some idea why you might want to highlight the tips of the blades.

  Ray

By the way Rick, your Huey is coming along nicely!

It sometimes happens when you fly a large number of aircraft at a time in a tight formation into a hot LZ, as opposed to a single helo to pick up a pilot after he drives his wingy-thingy into the ground.  

We also teach our Soldiers and pilots to use punctuation and capital letters when writing so they are more easily understood as well.  I guess the USAF doesn't do that either.

ok, then,   in the air force,  we trained our pilots to fly them, not to crash them into one another

You could also paint white stripes on one blade or paint one blade top white.  This was done so the blades would be seen more easily from above by other aircraft to avoid collisions in tight formations.

AP ME i can understand that one .  

I,m going spray the tips then weather it down .

Rick G

the only reason there was a yellow blade tip, was to index the blades for flag tracking.  I was in the usaf.  we didn't have colored blade tips.  it added weight to the balance, that fluctuated with wear.  with a one color blade,  the more effective way to keep weight static, was to mount the added end blade weights to the fixture at the end of the blade.   the normal way to balance was to add led wool to the blade bolt cavity.