Bilked again!!

Yesterday, I picked up a kit I've been looking at for a while, the Heller 1/50 OH-58 Kiowa, # 80482...... See photo of box:



As you can see, the picture on the front of the box shows an OH-58C (with the flat window panels and top mounted exhaust).... well, when I opened the box after returning home, to my dismay, the kit within is that of an OH-58A with the standard "bubble" window and civilian interior!!! Also, the box art shows an exposed tail rotor shaft (the C Models had a shroud.... should have been a tip-off).... the kit has the shroud in place, and even raised civilian paint lines along the sides of the fuselage!!!!!????? The air intakes are that of an A model, the engine cover is that of an A model..... a CIVILIAN A model!!!

I had one of the old Fujimi OH-58's, that I scratched-built the flat window panels on (hadn't finished it yet though), but after finding this kit, I thought I could get a jump ahead and have a production C model.... wrong!!!

Bilked again.....
Frank
(had I not found the Mitsubishi MU-2A kit, it would have been a waisted trip)