bahamut0013

Ah, excellent, I hadn't considered that. Any specific models to suggest cannibalizing?

Yeah, I suppose you can consider it a "what-if"... Any suggestions for the questions in my first post?

Well, I know about the hatch and ramp already, and I'm simply going to putty the latter shut. I'm sure there are some more minor cosmetic details like antennas and probes... what else is there to consider? Windows?

There are a few photos of the interior on Wikimedia Commons, but they are all VH-3. I suppose if I wasn't still an active duty Marine with TS clearance, he might not given me a conceptual drawing for a helicopter that will never fly the president. There are also a couple of good guesses at here. As for exterior photos, photography isn't allowed within a certain radius, so you'd have to lie in wait with a large zoom lens, and if you went through all that trouble, you might not juts plaster it on the web.

I'm biting off a big project. I recently got the Italieri 1:72 VH-71 Marine One kit at a garage sale for a buck, and figured it would be nice to work with a smaller scale for a change. Only problem... it has NO interior whatsoever, spare the standard EH101 deck plating (not even interior wall panels). It looks like I have to build an interior from scratch. I already have some concept plans from a friend of mine at HMX-1 (since the program is essentially dead, he didn't mind sharing them), so I know that it was slated to have a few chairs, a couch, a hardwood table, a large LCD screen, a commu