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  1. You're welcome Alex. Always glad to help. Correct, no top cover to the crate as seen in the image where the gunner is removing the M60A from the Pintle mount off the Sagami arm. Also, remove the ropes to carry the crate as pictured on Miss Mini Correction to my earlier statement: Shaving is not the right term for no sight posts on the M-60 barrels. The terms used by door gunners of chopped and shaved refers to chopping down the barrel length and shaving the buttstock as seen here. A flat plate was also used instead of the buttstock. Sorry about that.
  2. Well you're in luck here as well. Door gunners just used a standard M-67 Frag grenade ammo box Very common sight among all aviation units. (Ignore the grenade pictured. An overzealous Pogue decided a Mark II pineapple grenade would do despite the box nomenclature) Outside dimensions: 19 1/2" Length x 11 1/2" Wide x 11 1/2" High Interior dimensions: (a bit smaller) 16 1/4" Length x 10" Wide x 9" High This field expedient method of carrying more ammo was stepped up to the M-5 40mm grenade ammo can later on with the Char
  3. Upturned Exhaust System http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?/topic/227008-uh-60m-upturned-exhaust-system/
  4. No need for apology Alexandre. You are right on. These were mounted in fixed wing aircraft as well including the C-47 but I was worried someone would get confused by your image of the tail dragger.
  5. This is mounted in a fixed wing aircraft in this image, not a helicopter.
  6. Hi Denis, Welcome to Arc as a new member. No the speaker box was not mounted to the skids for good reason. Remember that skids spread on lift off and landing. You would flex the entire assembly if you hard mounted them to the skids. If they were attached to anything else you would also flex that as well and if it's the hardpoints your talking about airframe damage. Here is a better image of a 118th AHC PysOps ship. UH-1B 62-2044 'Red Tail 5' of 1st Flight Platoon from Ralph B Young's unfinished series Army Aviation in Vietnam, Volume Two 1963-1966. Clearly s
  7. On the UH-1D/H yes. Like I said, interior chromate on access panels on the gunships were different. In case you don't know this green and yellow chromate primer are for different types of metals or materials. For most it modelers it doesn't matter. Rivet counters will always be anal retentive. You can just go with FS 34151 which is NSN 8010-00-899-8825 Zinc Chromate Metal Primer, Green or FS 33481 which is NSN 8010-00-297-0593 Zinc Chromate Metal Primer, Yellow as directed for use in AVIATION UNIT AND INTERMEDIATE MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS ARMY MODEL UH-1H/V/EH-1H/X HE
  8. Glad to help. The first thing to know is that the color was a mix of Zinc Chromate Green and Zinc Chromate yellow on the engine interior of D/H model unlike the inside panels on B/C/M UH-1. To illustrate this here are the best images I can provide. Unfortunately most images I have in the archive for engine maintenance on slicks in Vietnam are either taken at ground level or looking up at crew. So this dynamic rollover crash that occurred in Vietnam with the 192nd AHC is the best I can offer to show the deck and other details. Illustration of the color diffe
  9. Per Rotorwash (Ray Wilhite) and Floyd Werner who helped Kitty Hawk with this even though KH didn't listen to him or Floyd on certain things with this kit: "the bottom of the swash plate should be 5mm from the top of the bulkhead." and Floyd as mentioned on his build "The biggest issue with the kit is the lack of mounting tabs for the transmission. If you build it like I did by adding the engine then mounting the transmission deck level with the bottom of the engine front you’ll be fine. " http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?/topic/2992
  10. Wish that screen grab was clearer. Correct as the improved particle separator appeared before the UH-1C and was an improvement over the standard Bell mouth intake. Here is a 35mm slide in my collection showing a UH-1B with the improved particle separator only. This example also has the early FM antennae on the nose still but is in the subdued paint scheme versus the high visibility markings.
  11. Here are some great images. The below is Vietnam era. https://militaryantiquesmuseum.com/uvf0006-vietnam-war-era-us-m60-barrel-and-bipod.27992.htm My father did. I grew up Vietnam. I went into the Army myself during the 1st Gulf War and served from 1992 until 2001. I'm on the lower right with the Pig. Sorry for the low-res.
  12. You have the sling attachment points correct including the forearm assembly attachment point. (Technical bulletin: In 1967 parts modification: the buttstock and forearm assembly changed from sling swivels on the bottom (like a rifle) to on the top of the buttstock and on the left side of the forearm assembly (swivel and tab at 90 degrees). Also changed barrel lock lever to a design to better prevent accidental opening. In 1970 parts modification of the swivel & tab on forearm assembly were turned to 45 degree angle, introduction of the long sling hanger, and another new safety l
  13. Bell Helicopter was run out of Army Aviation. I would not place my money on them being selected in the top two and that is just a fact. Boeing and Lockheed Martin Sikorski will be the 2 finalists, as usual. It was only last year two Bell test pilots were killed in one of their prototypes. Bell also let over 1,500 employees go recently and they continue the same lineage of rotorcraft without vision. Speed? Range? Lockheed holds that record if I remember right. The Air Force will never let them load those 'wings' with weapons stores because the Zoomies own CAS so they are just a gim
  14. Also from my PDF dump - Rotorwash went down this path before you. "Below are M-60A's from five different kits. From bottom to top: Seminar UH-1B kit, MRC/Academy UH-1C kit, Italeri Modern US Weapons set, Dragon Vietnam weapons set, and Dragon Vietnam Helicopter crew set. To me this is a no brainer, DRAGON MAKES THE BEST PLASTIC 1/35 M-60A's. Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong " I like your idea of the open feed tray cover.
  15. Alex, Images courtesy USAAM via Rotorwash. These will also help you. Early 'linker' motor and tray but you see how the belt is fed to the drive.
  16. Alex, You have the correct setup! Note the Miss Mini image shows one feed belt because it was armed with the M134 miniguns while the 2nd image is from a Diamondhead gunship that was setup with M16 subsystem, basically quad-60s. You don't have to redo anything and it's right where it needs to be. The booster motors at the ends of each tray are supposed to be for your build of Miss Mini. Top notch. The M16 system uses slightly taller trays and the booster motor isn't attached to the tray like the M21 system. Glad to help. Otherwise I've wasted my life since the only othe
  17. Here is an image that reflects the above statements for reference: This image shows the cabin on a Diamondhead gunship. The Bandits used pintle mounted 60s on Sagami mounts so there was not a need to install the limit of traverse bars seen on gunships with 'free' 60s, either bungeed or hand held There are 6 spare barrels with shaved front sights and 2 regular barrels with tripods and sights placed center of the seat, facing forward. The regular bipod-sight post barrels were to be used if the gunship went down and the door gunners needed to field their M60s in the tra
  18. You poor unfortunate soul you. As Weapon Squad Leader I understand that gripe and the usual cussing, pissing, and moaning. The only time I heard more b*tching was from mortar men and something about carrying base plates the poor bastards. To answer your question, the front sights were removed largely because when hot barrels were changed out, they were laid on the floor of the Huey. You couldnt set them on the seat as they would burn through it, no brainer. The front sight would often get fouled in the ammo belts or with extended com cables. Here's a special anecdote f
  19. You are right and that website since it launched is pretty much static. Decades of the same stuff and same low-res images. The 6 Ps comes to mind. I digress. Yes on the use of the C-rat can for Miss Mini's DG/CE crew You will also need to scratch build the wooden box used for ammo for each door gunner. The spare barrels were kept under the troop seat on top of the feed tray for the M134 mini-guns centered underneath the troop seat. This unit did not use the firewall as spare storage and did not mount them behind the armored pilot seats like other units did. Spare barr
  20. Check fire Yes, WW 48-15 has decal options for 'The Good Widow Mrs Jones' although as you can see the artist profile is not correct. Not that far off but incorrect tail number, tail markings just based off the in-country images for the D model markings. The Kitty Hawk pilots door markings are also borked. Really that is not unusual given the lack of interest over the decades and kudos to KH as well as Floyd & Team for at least putting options out there. Easily corrected. Here is the profile from WW 48-15 which I bought for the KH kit. and he
  21. The photograph of UH-1B 63-8733 with 'The Good Widow Mrs Jones' painted on the panel shows Mike Cusick who was a DG/CE with the 121st AHC. The gunship sadly also went down and where the panel ended up is anyone's guess. Widowed once too many times but she still got around 😃 Torn between two lovers UH-1D 65-9777 and UH-1B 63-8733 . The true story about the gunship version being altered to have panties on is one of those zapped out headspace in Vietnam things. You can kill em with firepower but any showing of the bush is just crossing a line '6' can't tolerate. If you've got a sharp
  22. Not to get into what my Commanding Officer calls a d*k measuring contest but your rounds are not on target . NOT ALL removed the hoist or arm even. This is off the USS Corpus Cristi Bay in Da Nang harbor and it's not a UH-1b its a UH-1E gunbird as you call it with the hoist still there. Here's a color one from MAG-16 when at Phu Bai. You can clearly see the vertical spar for the hoist is still behind the AC seat. Not removed. I have more but I have to cook dinner for my birds. As you correctly stated the Corps didn't deploy B models to Vietnam and the USMC Order
  23. The cheese slid all the way off my cracker as you can see below but if you go this route and get all the MRC/Academy boxings you do get some nice marking options OOB. If you're going all in you'll need the original 1990 Seminar UH-1B releases all the MRC then Academy kits are based off, then the rare Italeri version as well. Oh and the 2018 Revell release after Revell bought the molds and re-released it. Hats off to you if you take the yellow brick road. Seminar 57th AHC 114th AHC Medevac US Army USAEUR MRC/Academy 'Heavy Hog' 114 AHC, Hog
  24. Correct. Joseph is still around he just shifted his focus. He still offers some good 7 shot tubes on Shapeways. Thank you Joseph! Here is the Print Scale 1/35 UH-1B & UH-1D decal sheet. It's not what the OP wants though. Not to knock the early stuff, there's some seriously good artwork there, but I think he's leaning more to what I call the Head Ships. The trippy stuff when the headspace in Vietnam increased, around late 6768 and up. Plus to use these you're going to need to buy the UH-1B back date set from Lone Star Models because the kit is a Charlie model gunship. The back d
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