I have started a project that I have wanted to do for quite some time. I love the look of the USCG MH-60J with its bright colors. I have built up the courage and started cutting plastic.
There isn't any kit of the HH/MH-60J Jayhawk in any scale. There are a couple great conversion sets by Fireball Modelworks in 1/72 and Cobra Company in 1/48, but I wanted a big one w/lots of detail. I have wanted to do one for a while, but I prefer to build large helos. After watching The Guardian on TV recently, it peaked my interest in doing a Jayhawk.
I started gathering reference materials and figuring out how to do it using a 1/35 Academy MH-60G kit. I will be using the Cobra Company open UH-60 exhausts, along with a couple of the interior bulkheads that I mastered for Cobra. I will also use parts of their MH-60L correction set (widened step sponsons, rear wall, one piece intakes) and parts from the MH-60L SOAR set (which I think is now the MH-60G set). Once I thought about it, it doesn't look like it will be too hard.
Here is what I will be building, the armed MH-60J version:
I have started by closing in the fuselage on both sides. I had to cut off the door fairings on the port side and half of the starboard side fairing.
And working on the interior bulkheads.
I'll keep you updated as this project develops.
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