First of all, Happy Father's Day to all the dad's. My personal Father's Day present this year was the Dragon UH-1D Huey. Since several people have requested pics of the parts. I thought I would post everything that there was so you could all evaluate the model for yourselves:
First off, the box. This may very well be one of the best parts of the whole kit. The cardboard is so thick that you can put this baby on the bottom of your stash pile without any worries! nothing like the flimsy Monogram AH-1G box.:
Next the plastic. As Gino said in his excellent review, it is the Panda Kit with the Dragon helo crew. First the Panda sprues:
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You know how everone always says the rivets are big on the Panda Huey, well here is a comparison at approximately the same scale between the Panda (top) and the MRC 1/35 UH-1C (bottom). Nuff said!:
Note that the rotor blades are incorrect for the UH-1D/H. See Ginos excellent tutorial for how to fix it (Sorry, Gino, I can't rememeber exactly which thread that was).
Here's the helo crew. Unfortunately, only one M23 mount as everyone thought:
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Here's the color PE fret:
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The brass PE fret:
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There are decals for 6 different aircraft. Note: decals are not this dark, but I wanted to make the white decals show up better:
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Finally, here are the instructions page by page:
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Well, there you have it. Now hopefully those of you who are interested have enough to draw your own conclusions.
Ray