Well this "quick & easy" build is finally done. Actually not a bad little kit, but I found out about the changes I needed to make after the fuselage was together and a coat of paint was on it.
Anyway thanks to those of you who answered my questions in the earlier post, it was a great help and I think it made a huge difference in the outcome.
This is Revell's 1/72 AS365, USCG HH-65
I had to remove some of the rear doors as it was pointed out the HH65 doesn't have the same door configuration as the AS365. The rear landing skid also had to be removed and I made a winch over the right hand door from some styrene strip and tubing. There was a little debate on the proper color but I went with Chevy Engine Red as it looks very close to the red / orange used on the HH-65. For some reason the USCG uses a completely different paint scheme on these helicopters than that used on other Coast Guard aircraft.
Well here it is, what I thought it would be a 3 or 4 day build turned into a 4-5 week build, but I think it was worth it. Now I'm off for the next couple of days to learn how to properly play with Dozers.
