Werner's Wings

UH-1 Long Bodied Hueys Reference DVD

 product # RWAS-02   $12

Product Article by Steve Bamford on May 4 2010

 

This Reference DVD from Werner's Wings provides pictures of the UH-1 Short Bodied Hueys.  Photos that were mainly taken by Ray Wilhite.  A separate Reference DVD is available for the UH-1 Short Bodied Hueys.

This is a photo only DVD and provides 1636 photos of the following aircraft:

101 photos of the HH-1H 70-2470 Hill Aerospace Museum
155 photos of the HH-1N 158551 USS Alabama
5 photos of the Huey armored seat
16 photos of the Medevac gear
38 photos of the Rogers arkansas vietnam memorial UH-1H
11 photos of the T-53 engine
65 photos of the UH-1D 64-13895 Pima
63 photos of the UH-1D 65-12882 Ozark Military Museum
21 photos of the UH-1D 59747 Enterprise, Al
28 photos of the UH-1D-H Medevac Ft Rucker
41 photos of the UH-1H 66-01204 Mid America Air Museum
36 photos of the UH-1H 66-16325 Daleville, Alabama
42 photos of the UH-1H 66-16478 Canon City Colorado
39 photos of the UH-1H 68-15287 Drake Field Air Museum
37 photos of the UH-1H 68-15584 Redstone
90 photos of the UH-1H 68-15691 Kankakee NG Gateguard Len Lundh
216 photos of the UH-1H 68-16104 Army Aviation Heritage Foundation
12 photos of the UH-1H 68-16404 Ft. Rucker
38 photos of the UH-1H 70-15713 Ft. Rucker
31 photos of the UH-1H 72-21483
15 photos of the UH-1H 59567 Ft. Rucker
11 photos of the UH-1H RNZAF
76 photos of the UH-1N 96603 Hill AFB Air Show
76 photos of the UH-1N 158269 HMLA 773
52 photos of the UH-1N 160455 HMLA 269
122 photos of the UH-1V 69-15271 Flat Iron
65 photos of the UH-1V 70-16393 Flat Iron
79 photos of the UH-1V 70-16465 Flat Iron
16 photos of the UH-1Y 166769
10 photos of the UH-1Y 166771
29 photos of the YUH-1D 60-06030 Ft. Rucker

I will provide a tiny sampling of photos that are found on this DVD.  The images on the DVD are massive........I have resized them to a much smaller size for this article.

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To me the big question is picture quality, picture size and what is in the photos.

Regarding picture quality. 
Although some of the photos were shot indoor in less than ideal lighting conditions.....the bulk of the photos are either well lit indoor photos or sunny outdoor photos. 

Picture size and resolution
Most of the pictures are 2 or 3 megs in size and offer very high resolution. These are the quality and size of photos that will will not find on the web.

Subject matter in the photos. 
This is the critical area. Do these photos provide the sort of detail and visual information to permit the super detailer to detail any area of his Long Bodies Huey from the engine to the interior/exterior?
  After all all the photos in the world are useless if they don't contain the info that is helpful.  With 1636 photos.....there is some very good coverage of all of the areas of interest to modellers....such as main and tail rotors (even from the top of the main rotor), engine, although the small number of photos of the weapons, sights, or attachment points was very limited (this could be because the Long bodies Hueys didn't carry much in the way of weapons systems......I'm no Huey expert so I don't know).  For the interior you get plenty of cockpit and instrument panel photos as well as a walkaround of the armored seat out of the chopper.  You also get photos of the Medevac gear as well as plenty of cockpit photos and rear passenger/cargo area.  You also get a small number of shot videos of choppers in action.  Plus you get photos of the engine removed from one of the choppers and sitting on a display stand as well as photos of an engine installed in at least 2 different choppers with the engine access doors opened up.  The photos also focus on the rear interior passenger area as well as all the tiny little areas of the Huey that would only be of interest to a serious modeller.  Another thing that is interesting is you also get the Operational Service history listing of 8 of the Hueys included on this DVD.....Operational history listings that includes Vietnam etc.  This is not long text story type operational history......just brief lists of dates, locations, Units, Post and country.  Often we forget the long battle history of aircraft when we view them in the quiet surroundings of a museum.

This is a vewry nice follow up to the Vol 1 DVD that delt with the Short Bodies Hueys.  I will openly admit that I was quite skeptical of the idea of paying $12 for a DVD of photos when the internet provides so many photos for free.  But after opening a large sampling of photos on this DVD and viewing all the thumbnails, I have to admit this DVD does provide plenty of photos of those critical areas modeller like ot pour detailing into.  Sure there might be certain thing that aren't covered.....but for a good all around reference photos....this DVD seems to hit the mark very well.

You can purchase this DVD directly from Werner's Wings website.

Steve

I would like to thank Werner's Wings for providing me with this review sample.

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Photos and text © by Steve Bamford