First Model! Revell Huey

Not bad for a first helo.  Need to work on cleaning up and closing up your seamlines though.  Some of the paint colors are off as well, the red-tipped rockets for example should be white or steel colored.  The ammo feed chutes should be steel as well, not yellow or brass-colored.  Need to watch excess glue too. 

As a side note, the model itself is very inaccurate.  But that is not your fault, Italeri/Revell got a lot of the details, including that it was a USMC bird, wrong.   Weapons load is wrong too.  A UH-1C could not carry all of that.  It would normally have either guns and rockets, or the grenade launcher on the nose and rockets.  Guns, rockets and the nose launcher, plus all their ammo, was too heavy for it to get off the ground.

 

Not bad, good luck on your next ones.

Yeah, I knew once I picked up the model it would be pretty off. I have a Delta Dart in the works too. Keep an eye out for it.

Hi ,

I built thid model a few months back. It's a great little model to build. I liked it, especially as it's the only one in this scale. Nice build for a first go. Keep it up.

Rich

Nice job for a first!  I built this same kit a couple of years ago when I got back into building after about 20 years off!  The standard mission config were 19 shot rocket pods with an M-60 mounted on a pivot next to the pods operated by the CC.  40 mm grenade launcher was very rare in MC units.  There was also a TAC-101, twin nose-mounted 7.62 mini guns.  That was equally as rare, as it only carried 250 rounds, and it rarely was able to fire even half of it before it would jam...ditched very fast.  Most of all the mounting bracket hardware was hand built by guys in the metal shop in country!  Poor bunch of resourseful bas***** we Marines have had to be!  Keep up the building and thanks for sharing the pics!

Nice to see someone getting it's first on helos. The basic stuff like too much glue and mould lines will get sorted out, just take your time on the model.

I'm guessing, you were building tanks before this helo? Helicopters don't land in mud pools, you gave it way too much dirt on the fuselage. Maybe inside, as soldiers were walking on dirt and carryed inside the helicopter, but i can't imagine that on the outside. A little attention to the details, and patience, and you'll be on the helo horse.

Cool!  As long as you were having fun building it thats all that matters.

When I build 'Nam' stuff I put on CD's like Iron buterfly, Stones, The Doors, Jeferson Airplane oh and the soundtrack to Jocobs Ladder is a good one too.

Welcome aboard and thanks for sharing!

Not a bad job on this kit.  I am building it right now, and have to say that the molds are very old and have about everything that can go wrong with a sprue.  I have deep ejector pin marks on all the parts, flash, warps, you name it they are there.  So looking at yours I have to say that you did a pretty good job considering what the kit looks like.

As far as the mud along the bottom, normally you might see some on the skids, maybe a bit along the belly, and always a bit along the flooring both in the cockpit and the cabin.

All in all a good job on a fun and challenging kit.  I liked the looks so much that I had to get the MRC/Academy 1/35th UH-1C "heavy hog" kit, that one looks nice!!

thats better than my first model!

I have this kit and have not even begun to work on it. I've opened the box and stared at the parts quite a few times but it strikes me as a difficult build. Looking at this mans pictures, I have three questions. How would a guy go about painting the windshield wipers, are those curtains on the back wall red like Revell says and what decals would be correct? I'd sure appreciate any pointers you guys have.

The wipers have to be painted carefully, by hand, with a small brush.  The "curtains" are actually the upper part of the troop seat.  They were either red or OD green fabric.  The kit decals are not correct.  The Helo kinda represnts a UH-1C, which was not used by the USMC.  The model is not really any specific version, but has aspects of a few different version.  As I also stated in the other "What Huey to Make" post, the weapons set-up is incorrect as well.  See that post for more info on this mediocre kit.

i've built this kit a few times and i think it's a good fun build nothing too heavy or serious.

Here is my take.

 

 For a first model it is really good, better then my first attempt. 

Looks like some fitting issues. Try putting the pieces togeather befor gluing and don't be afarid to trim areas creating a gap. You can use gell type glue (i use model master liquid cement, it has a metal needel type type making it easy to apply glue) to fill in the gaps. You don't have to sand everything, you can use a hobby knife to to remove excess dry glue or plastic.  Liquid glue (it's thinner then water) is good for tight fittings, just apply it where it's out of sight and it'll be sucked into the joint.

 Don't worry about  colors being off, if you think it's good then it is. Go at your own pace, try one new thing at a time and you'll have fun and learn along the way. Rember this is about fun, not perfection.

 You got a nice job done on the weathering, but it is a bit off. Look at a few photos (PrimePortal.net is a good source of reference photos) and compair the mud and weathering to what you have, and adjust how much you put where.

 And rember that there is no limit to layers of paint. When hand brushing i usually put on 3 layers, i prefer enemal but it takes 24 hours to dry and you need lots of fresh air because of the harmfull fumes, i haven't had good luck with acrylic paint but there are ways to to hand paint with it and it has very little fumes (still need fresh air).

ZzZGuy wrote:

Don't worry about  colors being off, if you think it's good then it is. Go at your own pace, try one new thing at a time and you'll have fun and learn along the way. Rember this is about fun, not perfection.  You got a nice job done on the weathering, but it is a bit off. Look at a few photos (PrimePortal.net is a good source of reference photos) and compair the mud and weathering to what you have, and adjust how much you put where.

Ditto!

The idea is to have fun.  I like the build. 

I hope that you had fun with this one, helos offer amazing opportunities for detailing and weathering.  If you want to get in deep with the whirley-bird sickness, you have come to the right place.

Mac