1/35 Panda Models UH-1N Twin Huey |
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Gallery Article by Thomas Neuss
on July 28 2003 |
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The
"Twin Huey" is one of my favoured helicopters and I was highly
enthusiastic as I heard about this 1/35 model and had to build one ASAP as I got
the kit. Building
of the kit went very straight forward. There are no big fit problems and you can
build a nice UH-1N out of the box. As
I wanted to build a rescue chopper, I had to add some details. The
inboard winch was build out of wire and plastic sheet as was the searchlight
with mounting on the port side. I
added some details like seatbelts, “rescue equipment”, details of the wire
cutters and so on.
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The painting was done with my
airbrush and Gunze colours, with layers of future between decals and weathering
and a last coat of Gunze clear flat. As I had no decal sheet for this
helicopter, I had to take decals out of the “spares box” and dry transfers
for the letters. As the rescue choppers are in a
good condition the weathering was only on the tail boom in the exhaust area.