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You need to get the Werner's Wings aftermarket decal sets for the kit. You can also mix match from older decals out there from Microscale.

Nighthawks, Fireflies, and Lightning Bugs are my favorite subject for Army Aviation in Vietnam. I remember you making that nice Sheridan light array with starlight scope. Coming along nicely. F Troop Blue Ghosts Nighthawk is a choice pick. Looking forward to your build and congrats on the great news about your health. Cheers!

You probably have all the same images I have of 'Calico Cat' AH-1G 66-15273 of D Troop, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment. I have some 3x5's of some of the Centaur Cobras. Crappy Kodak textured paper of that era.

Would have been nice for them to have opened the cabin floor and hull for the flex chutes and the electrical junctions in the hull for the electrical wiring that drives the flex guns that are covered by simple aluminum plate when not in use as a gunship. They did not include the box tray either that the ammunition boxes sit on under the troop seat, did not include the booster motors that feed the flex guns, or complete the M21 system fully. I'm not sure after they bought the Kitty Hawk CAD they did anything other than make the molds or refine them prior to release. When Trumpeter bought t

Cant tell you how happy I am to see the M6 system represented finally in 1/35 scale. CAD and build is out by Trumpeter pending next month's release. Still some of the same errors from the previous UH-1B release. 3 liveries in, 2 from the 174th Assault Helicopter Company and 1 'Bandit-6' from the 118th Assault Helicopter Company. The possibilities for this kit are now endless in terms of unit and armament if you have the MRC/Academy kits. M3, M6, M157, M158, M5, M21. Enjoy!

You got them from L-GREECO and his thread which went into the ether. I don't know if he ever finished the build of Bandit-3.

Should hit the US in October I'm told. Hoping it will truly be a B model gunship only because the box art clearly shows a UH-1C gunship, Easy Rider from the 174th Assault Helicopter Company. No details on decal options yet or armaments. Kitty Hawk was developing the gunship version so this is likely an extension of the molds Trumpeter bought. They released the UH-1B last year. Kitty Hawk at least got the box art right for a UH-1B gunship. Hoping they kept the Sagami mounts for the door gunners. Once again though, the M6 quad M60D gun system was not modeled which is a rea

Thank you. Guess my boys didnt make the cut. Nice decal sheet either way.

The views are so small Im not sure you have one of the Razorback apaches on the sheet. Either when they were with 16th CAB A Troop 4-6 CAV, A Co 1-2 Avn, or A Co 4-6 Avn for OIR.

What is the Hind twist please? I see this now and then but cant understand the reference.

Im a huge fan of the Mi-24A Hind. More so than the later versions. Outside of the after market PE for the cockpit which I already have I've not seen anyone that has 3D printed parts for it in 1/72 and doubt the screenshot of the 1/48 version will be better as Hobby Boss is low end as a kit maker.

Sourced today - "Somalia 1994 - Getting ready to board our OGA( Other Government Agency) Huey. Going Hunting for Mohamed Farrah Aidid."

You're welcome. I should've said the box drum side not versus. Age is working against me these days. At least for Vietnam era AH-1Gs the box fed the M134 minigun with 7.62 and the round textured drum was for 40mm grenade launcher and they sat side by side one another in the ammunition bay. Here is a round style drum for nose turret mounted M134. I dont know if this predates the ammunition box or replaced it.

Here you go The tray slides out. Here they are loading the ammo for the chunker into the drum There is a also a box version versus the drum.