Dragon models OH-6a?

REM* Ride, that's a good one! Would make a great diorama title :-)

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I've got the Hugh Mills Miss Clawd IV kit partially started.  It looks nice.  Only thing I noticed is the plastic is pretty thin.

 

Hugh Mills used to be quite active on rec.models.scale. I've been on a few Army helos, and the airframe isn't all that substantial to begin with. Of course, I'm more used to tanks and APCs than aircraft metal.

Only snagged one decent shot of one once bringing someone out to see the CO. I do recall switching my radio to their freq at night to listen to the convo betweem one of them and a Cobra, most vividly asking the Cobra once 'if he see's him behind the tree' or something to that effect.

REM* ride by Glenn Hanson, on Flickr

I never saw the OH6 during the war, but sometimes we would get some other type of copter land at the base once in a while.

I did like seeing them perform as the Silver Eagles at Stateside airshows.  The first time was at Cleveland's Burke Lakeside Airport when we brought a C-5A for the display.There used to be decals for the Silver Eagles, I think Microscale put them out.

I built the LASD MD-500 issue of the kit when it was a new release 25+ years ago for a co worker on the department. I do not remember any fit problems with that issue of the kit.

Thanks Rob.  I thought it would be different.  I saw them buzzing around Baghdad last time I was there ('08-'09).

Here is another I found, IDF MD-500 Defender TOW.

keavdog

I've got the Hugh Mills Miss Clawd IV kit partially started. 

Yup, built that one too.

I've got the Hugh Mills Miss Clawd IV kit partially started.  It looks nice.  Only thing I noticed is the plastic is pretty thin.

Nice work Gino, I like the top one, it's different.

I have built a few of them (4 or 5) over the years, in the various OH/AH-6/MD-500 versions they put out.  It is a pretty good kit.  I had no real issues w/the canopy, I know others have.  If you go slow and line it up well, it goes on w/out issues.   

Here are a couple of the ones I have done.

Blackwater MD-530E in Iraq.  It started out as the AH-6J kit and I swapped the canopy from the LASD MD-500E kit.

MH-6J MELB (Mission Enhanced Little Bird) conversion using the old Cobra Company MELB conversion set.  It represents one of the aircraft from OP Gothic Serpent (Black Hawk Down), Somalia '93.

With pilots and Operators on it.

I can't find any pics of the others I have done.  I recommend them though.