1/48 Academy UH-60L Blackhawk – Yanshuf 3

Gallery Article by Gidi Vitkon on Sept 27 2012

 

 

The Blackhawk’s have served in the Israeli Air Force since 1994. They are the backbone of the medium transport/utility helicopter fleet.

The latest batch of 24 machines arrived during 2002 and “123 squadron was re-open named - “the Birds of the desert”

 

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The base for the model was is the  Academy MH-60K kit with Isracast 48-002 H-60 Blackhawk conversion set.

The conversion is intended for the Revell kit but will fit the Academy kit, the only problem is the height of the resin tail. After I cut off the kit and install the new one, it was short in height so I aligned the top of the new resin part to the kit lines and added 0.8 mm evergreen plastic at the flat bottom.

Not all the new installations are included in the Isracast kit so I needed to add them from scratch. The Two nose and tail Square antennas were formed from resin.

All the rest is evergreen plastic.

Also two pilots search lights and the light projector plus various antennas were added to the belly.

The colors are all HUMBROL and decals are from “Sky Decals” set SD-19

The yellow V is from an old local decal that was produced by the importer of Academy.

Weathering was done using a promodeller black wash.

Gidi Vitkon

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Photos and text © by Gidi Vitkon