1/72 Italeri HH-60H

Rescue Hawk

by Thomas Neuss

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The HH-60H Rescue Hawk was developed from the SH-60B Sea Hawk. While the Sea Hawk`s mission is ASW work, the primary mission of the HH-60H is Combat SAR and transport.

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The kit is the Italeri HH-60H that allows to build into a basic HH-60H but is missing some detail to do an actual version with the extended pylon and FLIR-pod in front of the nose.

As I wanted to build a chopper parked on a carrier deck while being prepared for action as part of a diorama I had to modify the main rotor system and the tail boom into the folded position.

So I developed my own conversion kit by building masters and making resin copies out of silicon forms.

I also extensively modified the interior of the cabin, as the kit is lacking some details here, as I added a lot of details to the cabel cutters, antennas and lights on the hull.

The weapons are from the Dragon HMMWV and an Airwaves set and I added photoetched ammo belts and scratched the weapon mounts.

Painting was done with Gunze color and weathering with pastel chalk and artist oil paint, the decals are from various sheets, as I wanted to do a helo from HS-14, USS Kitty Hawk.

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The diorama will show the HH-60H along an E-2C Hawkeye on a carrier deck section. The E-2C with folded wings and the personel and deck equipment are still under construction.

Hope, you like it, 

Thomas 

Any comments – just mail to: thomas.neuss@t-online.de

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Photos and text © by Thomas Neuss